Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in Scotland

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 161 173
Rank change year-on-year +43 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 12 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.54% 0.070% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.076% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile - £471 -
25th Percentile £508 £484 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -10.87% -
75th Percentile £538 £534 £588
90th Percentile £548 £544 -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £590
% change year-on-year - -11.02% +31.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Vulnerability Assessment 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in Scotland

Vulnerability Assessment
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Edinburgh - 12 £515 -
Vulnerability Assessment
UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 12 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Analyst
1 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 9 (75.00%) Security Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Security Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 12 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 10 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Security Monitoring
3 9 (75.00%) Business Impact Analysis
3 9 (75.00%) Impact Analysis
3 9 (75.00%) Incident Management
3 9 (75.00%) Information Security
3 9 (75.00%) SIEM
3 9 (75.00%) Technical Analysis
3 9 (75.00%) Use Case
3 9 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (75.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (16.67%) NCSC
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft