Threat and Vulnerability Management Contracts

Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat and Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat and Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 679 787
Rank change year-on-year +114 +108 -134
Contract jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management 33 40 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.067% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.074% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 42
10th Percentile £496 £388 £403
25th Percentile £567 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £538 £675
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -20.37% +17.39%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £744
90th Percentile £726 £698 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £567 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.64% +6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat and 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Threat and Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +127 28 £650 +18.18% 148
London +105 18 £663 +20.45% 11
Work from Home +122 12 £625 +19.05% 16
UK excluding London +60 11 £567 +8.00% 134
East of England +18 4 £700 +64.76% 14
North of England +32 2 £559 -2.87% 59
Midlands +23 2 £567 -13.63% 20
South West - 2 £628 - 12
Scotland +32 1 £500 +17.65% 1
West Midlands +30 1 - - 13
Yorkshire +20 1 £550 +4.76% 11
East Midlands +18 1 £567 -13.63% 7
North West +16 1 £567 -9.28% 46

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.03%) SCCP
1 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Consultant
2 5 (15.15%) Security Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Security Consultant
2 5 (15.15%) Security Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Information Security Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Information Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Information Security Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Security Architect
5 2 (6.06%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Vulnerability Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Security Posture
2 3 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.06%) Cyberattack
3 2 (6.06%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Insider Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (96.97%) Vulnerability Management
2 17 (51.52%) Security Operations
3 14 (42.42%) Application Security
4 13 (39.39%) Threat Modelling
5 12 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 11 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
7 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
7 10 (30.30%) Security Testing
8 8 (24.24%) Information Security
9 6 (18.18%) Agile
9 6 (18.18%) Cryptography
9 6 (18.18%) DevOps
9 6 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 6 (18.18%) SDLC
10 5 (15.15%) Patch Management
10 5 (15.15%) Security Monitoring
10 5 (15.15%) SIEM
10 5 (15.15%) Threat Intelligence
10 5 (15.15%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) CISSP
4 6 (18.18%) CISM
5 3 (9.09%) CRISC
6 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (3.03%) CCSK
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.03%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (3.03%) Degree
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) GCIA
6 1 (3.03%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
2 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Nessus
1 1 (3.03%) Nmap
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Varonis
3 4 (12.12%) Darktrace
4 3 (9.09%) Qualys
5 2 (6.06%) Google
5 2 (6.06%) Rapid7
5 2 (6.06%) Sun
6 1 (3.03%) Checkmarx
6 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity
6 1 (3.03%) Veracode