Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in England

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Vulnerability Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 572 633
Rank change year-on-year +101 +61 -67
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 72 76 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 42 104
10th Percentile £405 £397 £350
25th Percentile £463 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £568 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +13.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £553
90th Percentile £785 £775 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £519
% change year-on-year -8.33% +15.72% -1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Scanning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Vulnerability Scanning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in England.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in England.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +102 41 £600 +11.11% 18
South West +23 13 £525 -2.33% 5
West Midlands +25 3 £260 -60.75% 2
Midlands +20 3 £260 -60.75% 3
South East +10 3 £500 -13.98% 4
East of England - 3 £750 - 1
North of England +27 1 - - 16
North West +23 1 - - 5
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) GCP
3 11 (15.28%) Azure
4 4 (5.56%) AWS KMS
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.39%) IaaS
7 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 28 (38.89%) Firewall
2 8 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (5.56%) DNS
4 2 (2.78%) DHCP
4 2 (2.78%) Network Security
4 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.78%) VPN
5 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.39%) LAN
5 1 (1.39%) SSL
5 1 (1.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) GitLab
1 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (16.67%) Architect
1 12 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Analyst
2 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Security Architect
3 9 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Senior
5 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Security Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Consultant
8 3 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Security Consultant
8 3 (4.17%) Security Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.39%) JSON
1 1 (1.39%) Laravel
1 1 (1.39%) OAuth
1 1 (1.39%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.39%) SAML
1 1 (1.39%) XML
1 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Data Centre
1 13 (18.06%) Private Cloud
2 10 (13.89%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.94%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (6.94%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.78%) PKI
6 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.39%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Windows
2 8 (11.11%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.39%) AIX
5 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.39%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Penetration Testing
2 32 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (37.50%) Information Security
4 22 (30.56%) DevOps
4 22 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (30.56%) SIEM
5 21 (29.17%) DevSecOps
6 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
6 17 (23.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (20.83%) Computer Science
7 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (19.44%) Cloud Security
8 14 (19.44%) Containerisation
8 14 (19.44%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (18.06%) Resource Management
9 13 (18.06%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 12 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 11 (15.28%) Threat Modelling
12 10 (13.89%) Microservices
12 10 (13.89%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
1 3 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (1.39%) Bash
2 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (1.39%) Ruby
2 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.44%) Degree
4 12 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (9.72%) CISSP
6 4 (5.56%) CISM
7 3 (4.17%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.78%) CISA
8 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.39%) CCNA
9 1 (1.39%) CCNA CyberOps
9 1 (1.39%) CCSP
9 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.39%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) NIST
2 10 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (12.50%) GDPR
4 7 (9.72%) PCI DSS
5 5 (6.94%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.78%) COBIT
6 2 (2.78%) ISO 22301
6 2 (2.78%) NCSC
7 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (18.06%) vSphere
3 5 (6.94%) Docker
4 4 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.39%) Snort
6 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (25.00%) Terraform
2 12 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
4 6 (8.33%) Ansible
5 4 (5.56%) SCCM
6 3 (4.17%) Nessus
7 2 (2.78%) WSUS
8 1 (1.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.39%) Nmap
8 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (23.61%) VMware
2 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.89%) Google
4 5 (6.94%) Qualys
5 2 (2.78%) CA
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco
5 2 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.78%) Lotus
5 2 (2.78%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.78%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Sophos
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk
6 1 (1.39%) Varonis