Vulnerability Management Contracts in England

Vulnerability Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 317 444
Rank change year-on-year +42 +127 -47
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 290 408 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.79% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.88% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 295 270
10th Percentile £389 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £564
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.38% +12.81%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £746
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -30.41%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -28.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Management 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 32,259 46,317 65,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.62% 90.21% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,236 32,416 46,341
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £648
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,219 1,624 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.78 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.90 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +63 145 £594 +3.26% 44
South East +58 65 £450 -23.63% 60
South West -9 25 £550 -0.65% 23
Midlands +24 19 £438 -27.08% 23
East of England +19 19 £650 +44.44% 19
West Midlands +25 17 £438 -27.08% 13
North of England +1 12 £559 -10.64% 74
Yorkshire +7 8 £550 -12.00% 19
North West -6 4 £567 -9.28% 53
East Midlands +15 2 £596 -9.22% 10
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
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 8 (2.76%) Confluence
2 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (19.31%) Azure
2 43 (14.83%) AWS
3 24 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.90%) GCP
5 14 (4.83%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (3.45%) SaaS
8 9 (3.10%) GitHub
9 8 (2.76%) IaaS
9 8 (2.76%) PaaS
10 7 (2.41%) Nutanix
10 7 (2.41%) Rubrik
11 5 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.72%) Slack
12 4 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.38%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (17.93%) Firewall
2 30 (10.34%) DNS
3 21 (7.24%) DHCP
4 15 (5.17%) Network Security
5 11 (3.79%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.76%) VLAN
7 7 (2.41%) Kerberos
7 7 (2.41%) NAS
7 7 (2.41%) SAN
8 5 (1.72%) VPN
9 4 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.03%) LAN
10 3 (1.03%) OSPF
10 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.69%) BGP
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.69%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.69%) SCCP
11 2 (0.69%) WAN
11 2 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.38%) Metadata
3 4 (1.38%) Power BI
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Hive
4 3 (1.03%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.69%) Big Data
5 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.69%) Bigtable
5 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.69%) HBase
5 2 (0.69%) IBM BigInsights
5 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.69%) Parquet
5 2 (0.69%) PolyBase
5 2 (0.69%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 16 (5.52%) JIRA
2 14 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.45%) Git
4 7 (2.41%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.38%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (1.38%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.69%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.34%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 69 (23.79%) Finance
2 45 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.24%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.52%) Banking
5 15 (5.17%) Legal
5 15 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.10%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.07%) Electronics
8 6 (2.07%) Marketing
9 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Retail
13 1 (0.34%) Advertising
13 1 (0.34%) Back Office
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (21.72%) Analyst
2 35 (12.07%) SOC Analyst
3 31 (10.69%) Security Engineer
4 24 (8.28%) Consultant
5 23 (7.93%) Architect
6 22 (7.59%) Security Manager
7 21 (7.24%) Project Manager
8 20 (6.90%) Lead
9 19 (6.55%) Security Architect
10 17 (5.86%) Security Analyst
11 16 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.52%) Security Consultant
11 16 (5.52%) Security Project Manager
12 15 (5.17%) Senior
13 14 (4.83%) Security Specialist
13 14 (4.83%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 14 (4.83%) Vulnerability Specialist
14 12 (4.14%) Contracts Manager
14 12 (4.14%) IT Manager
14 12 (4.14%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.41%) LDAP
2 4 (1.38%) Kafka
3 3 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.03%) JSON
3 3 (1.03%) Regular Expression
3 3 (1.03%) XML
3 3 (1.03%) YAML
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Avro
4 2 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.69%) EDI
4 2 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.34%) OLE
5 1 (0.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.41%) Management Information System
2 22 (7.59%) Security Posture
3 20 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (4.48%) Cyber Defence
4 13 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.79%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 8 (2.76%) Clustering
7 8 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.76%) Replication
8 7 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.38%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.38%) IoT
9 4 (1.38%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.38%) PKI
9 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 68 (23.45%) Windows
2 47 (16.21%) Linux
3 39 (13.45%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.17%) Unix
5 13 (4.48%) Windows 10
6 10 (3.45%) Mac OS X
6 10 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (2.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (2.41%) Oracle Linux
8 7 (2.41%) Solaris
8 7 (2.41%) VMS
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.69%) zOS
11 1 (0.34%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (33.10%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (32.76%) SIEM
3 67 (23.10%) Security Operations
4 65 (22.41%) Incident Response
5 60 (20.69%) Information Security
6 38 (13.10%) Risk Management
7 37 (12.76%) Data Security
8 33 (11.38%) Application Security
9 32 (11.03%) Static Application Security Testing
10 31 (10.69%) Data Loss Prevention
10 31 (10.69%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 27 (9.31%) Incident Management
11 27 (9.31%) Threat Intelligence
12 26 (8.97%) DevOps
12 26 (8.97%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 25 (8.62%) Agile
14 23 (7.93%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 23 (7.93%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 22 (7.59%) SOAR
16 21 (7.24%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.86%) Python
3 10 (3.45%) Bash
4 4 (1.38%) Go
4 4 (1.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.03%) Groovy
5 3 (1.03%) SQL
6 2 (0.69%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.34%) C#
Qualifications
1 56 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.31%) DV Cleared
4 17 (5.86%) CISSP
4 17 (5.86%) Degree
5 8 (2.76%) CISM
5 8 (2.76%) ISACA
6 5 (1.72%) GIAC
7 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.69%) CCSP
9 2 (0.69%) CEH
9 2 (0.69%) CISA
9 2 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CCSK
10 1 (0.34%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.83%) NIST
2 32 (11.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (10.69%) GDPR
4 12 (4.14%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (3.45%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.76%) COBIT
7 7 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (2.07%) NIST 800
9 5 (1.72%) SLA
10 3 (1.03%) QA
11 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.69%) NCSC
12 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 41 (14.14%) Active Directory
2 29 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.45%) XenApp
5 7 (2.41%) Docker
6 4 (1.38%) Firmware
7 3 (1.03%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.34%) Snort
Systems Management
1 20 (6.90%) SCCM
2 17 (5.86%) Ansible
3 15 (5.17%) Terraform
4 12 (4.14%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.76%) Nessus
6 7 (2.41%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.41%) Netcool
6 7 (2.41%) Tivoli
6 7 (2.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 6 (2.07%) Kibana
8 5 (1.72%) logstash
9 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.03%) Puppet
9 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.69%) Ambari
10 2 (0.69%) CASB
10 2 (0.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.69%) Oozie
10 2 (0.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 84 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 58 (20.00%) Qualys
3 43 (14.83%) VMware
4 21 (7.24%) Splunk
4 21 (7.24%) Varonis
5 16 (5.52%) Cisco
5 16 (5.52%) Forcepoint
5 16 (5.52%) LogRhythm
6 15 (5.17%) Citrix
7 11 (3.79%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.10%) CyberArk
8 9 (3.10%) IBM
9 8 (2.76%) Dell
9 8 (2.76%) Google
9 8 (2.76%) Veeam
10 7 (2.41%) CA
10 7 (2.41%) EMC
10 7 (2.41%) HP
10 7 (2.41%) Isilon
10 7 (2.41%) Serena