Vulnerability Scanning Contracts

Vulnerability Scanning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 613 649
Rank change year-on-year +114 +36 -21
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 83 90 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 58 132
10th Percentile £333 £395 £354
25th Percentile £463 £488 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% +8.10% -
75th Percentile £635 £673 £575
90th Percentile £771 £711 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -18.00% +19.05% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%
75th Percentile - - £39.38
90th Percentile - - £45.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +102 77 £560 +1.82% 49
London +93 44 £600 +14.29% 20
Work from Home +111 31 £538 -19.17% 34
UK excluding London +47 28 £513 -18.00% 34
South West +29 13 £525 -2.33% 4
Scotland +33 4 £300 -55.02% 3
Midlands +20 3 £260 -60.75% 3
West Midlands +15 3 £260 -60.75% 2
South East +14 3 £500 -13.98% 4
East of England - 3 £750 - 1
North of England +33 2 £488 -2.50% 14
North West +23 2 £488 -2.50% 5

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.41%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.28%) AWS
2 14 (16.87%) GCP
3 13 (15.66%) Azure
4 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.61%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.41%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.20%) IaaS
8 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.20%) PaaS
8 1 (1.20%) Route 53
8 1 (1.20%) Serverless
8 1 (1.20%) Slack
8 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (34.94%) Firewall
2 8 (9.64%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (6.02%) DNS
4 3 (3.61%) DHCP
4 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.41%) VPN
6 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.20%) LAN
6 1 (1.20%) Network Security
6 1 (1.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (18.07%) GitLab
1 15 (18.07%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.82%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Finance
3 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Legal
8 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Analyst
2 12 (14.46%) Architect
2 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (14.46%) Network Engineer
3 11 (13.25%) Security Architect
4 10 (12.05%) Security Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Senior
6 8 (9.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Security Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Consultant
9 4 (4.82%) SOC Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Security Consultant
10 3 (3.61%) Security Manager
10 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) JSON
1 4 (4.82%) XML
2 3 (3.61%) Ajax
2 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.61%) CSS
2 3 (3.61%) HTML
2 3 (3.61%) SOAP
2 3 (3.61%) Web Services
3 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.20%) Laravel
3 1 (1.20%) OAuth
3 1 (1.20%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.20%) SAML
3 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Data Centre
1 13 (15.66%) Private Cloud
2 9 (10.84%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.23%) Security Posture
4 5 (6.02%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.61%) CMDB
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.41%) PKI
7 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.20%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.66%) Windows
2 9 (10.84%) Linux
3 4 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.61%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.20%) AIX
5 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.20%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.37%) Penetration Testing
2 35 (42.17%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (33.73%) Information Security
4 25 (30.12%) SIEM
5 24 (28.92%) DevOps
6 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (26.51%) DevSecOps
8 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (22.89%) CI/CD
10 16 (19.28%) Incident Response
10 16 (19.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (19.28%) Vulnerability Management
11 15 (18.07%) Cloud Security
12 14 (16.87%) Computer Science
12 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
13 13 (15.66%) Resource Management
13 13 (15.66%) Security Operations
13 13 (15.66%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 12 (14.46%) Threat Modelling
15 10 (12.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.02%) Python
2 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
2 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.20%) Bash
3 1 (1.20%) Go
3 1 (1.20%) Java
3 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.20%) Ruby
3 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) Degree
4 11 (13.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (8.43%) CISSP
6 4 (4.82%) CISM
6 4 (4.82%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) CISA
7 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CCNA
8 1 (1.20%) CCSP
8 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.20%) MCSE
8 1 (1.20%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (13.25%) NIST
2 8 (9.64%) GDPR
3 7 (8.43%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.82%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.41%) COBIT
5 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.41%) ISO 22301
5 2 (2.41%) NCSC
6 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.66%) vSphere
3 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.02%) Docker
4 4 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.20%) Snort
5 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (24.10%) Terraform
2 12 (14.46%) vCenter Server
3 10 (12.05%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.02%) Ansible
4 5 (6.02%) SCCM
5 3 (3.61%) Nessus
5 3 (3.61%) WSUS
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.20%) Argo
7 1 (1.20%) CASB
7 1 (1.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (1.20%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.20%) Istio
7 1 (1.20%) Nmap
7 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.20%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) VMware
2 16 (19.28%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.25%) Google
4 6 (7.23%) Qualys
5 5 (6.02%) Rapid7
6 4 (4.82%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.61%) Splunk
8 2 (2.41%) CA
8 2 (2.41%) Cisco
8 2 (2.41%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.41%) Lotus
8 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.41%) Sophos
8 2 (2.41%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle
9 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.20%) Varonis