Vulnerability Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 268 380
Rank change year-on-year +29 +112 -66
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 153 191 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.81% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.91% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 153 105
10th Percentile £377 £413 £384
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £517
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +6.38% +7.26%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £638
90th Percentile £703 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
South East +56 66 £450 -21.74% 31
Scotland +45 26 £515 +12.94% 4
South West -9 23 £550 +10.00% 17
Midlands +9 18 £438 -27.45% 12
West Midlands +4 16 £438 -27.08% 9
East of England +12 15 £700 +55.56% 4
North of England -4 11 £559 -7.84% 17
Yorkshire +11 7 £550 -12.00% 11
North West +3 4 £567 -6.44% 6
Wales +19 2 £406 -14.47% 1
East Midlands +17 2 £596 -1.65% 3
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (15.69%) Azure
2 12 (7.84%) AWS
3 5 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (2.61%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (1.96%) GCP
5 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.65%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.65%) SaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.99%) Firewall
2 13 (8.50%) Network Security
3 11 (7.19%) DHCP
3 11 (7.19%) DNS
4 3 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.31%) LAN
5 2 (1.31%) VPN
5 2 (1.31%) WAN
6 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.65%) SCCP
6 1 (0.65%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.65%) Wireless
6 1 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) Power BI
1 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.31%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 24 (15.69%) Public Sector
2 16 (10.46%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.19%) Finance
3 11 (7.19%) Legal
4 7 (4.58%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.27%) Banking
6 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (35.29%) Analyst
2 31 (20.26%) SOC Analyst
3 19 (12.42%) Lead
4 17 (11.11%) Security Analyst
5 16 (10.46%) Consultant
6 14 (9.15%) Security Consultant
7 12 (7.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 12 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.84%) Security Specialist
8 11 (7.19%) Senior
9 10 (6.54%) Architect
9 10 (6.54%) IT Security Specialist
9 10 (6.54%) Security Operations Specialist
10 9 (5.88%) Security Architect
10 9 (5.88%) Security Engineer
11 8 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 7 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (4.58%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
12 7 (4.58%) Senior Security Analyst
12 7 (4.58%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.96%) Kafka
2 1 (0.65%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.49%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.19%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (6.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 10 (6.54%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.23%) Private Cloud
4 8 (5.23%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (4.58%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (4.58%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.96%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.96%) IoT
6 3 (1.96%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) CSOC
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.65%) Windows
2 21 (13.73%) Linux
3 14 (9.15%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.54%) Mac OS X
5 8 (5.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (48.37%) SIEM
2 73 (47.71%) Cybersecurity
3 59 (38.56%) Incident Response
4 48 (31.37%) Information Security
4 48 (31.37%) Security Operations
5 29 (18.95%) Incident Management
6 26 (16.99%) Data Security
6 26 (16.99%) Risk Management
7 22 (14.38%) Data Loss Prevention
8 19 (12.42%) SOAR
9 18 (11.76%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 17 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
10 17 (11.11%) Use Case
11 15 (9.80%) Project Delivery
11 15 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (9.80%) Threat Intelligence
12 14 (9.15%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (9.15%) Privileged Access Management
12 14 (9.15%) Security Monitoring
13 13 (8.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.54%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.65%) C#
2 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.38%) DV Cleared
2 22 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.19%) CISSP
4 8 (5.23%) CISM
5 7 (4.58%) ISACA
6 5 (3.27%) Degree
7 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (1.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.65%) CCSP
9 1 (0.65%) CISA
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.65%) GCIH
9 1 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.57%) NIST
2 31 (20.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (13.73%) GDPR
4 10 (6.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (6.54%) HIPAA
5 9 (5.88%) COBIT
5 9 (5.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 6 (3.92%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.61%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
System Software
1 18 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.50%) XenApp
4 3 (1.96%) XenDesktop
5 2 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.65%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (3.92%) SCCM
2 5 (3.27%) Nessus
3 3 (1.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.65%) CASB
5 1 (0.65%) Kibana
5 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.65%) Terraform
5 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (33.99%) Microsoft
2 30 (19.61%) Qualys
3 20 (13.07%) Varonis
4 16 (10.46%) Forcepoint
4 16 (10.46%) LogRhythm
5 14 (9.15%) Citrix
5 14 (9.15%) VMware
6 9 (5.88%) Splunk
7 8 (5.23%) Ivanti
8 7 (4.58%) Virgin Media
9 5 (3.27%) Cisco
10 4 (2.61%) Darktrace
11 3 (1.96%) F5
11 3 (1.96%) FireEye
11 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.96%) Tanium
11 3 (1.96%) Zscaler
12 2 (1.31%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (1.31%) SAP