Vulnerability Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Vulnerability Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 308 436
Rank change year-on-year +96 +128 -55
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 137 164 192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.93% 0.67% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.74% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 126 148
10th Percentile £420 £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £471 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £685
90th Percentile £725 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +11.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -28.13%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £32.50
90th Percentile - - £37.00
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Vulnerability Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management.

Vulnerability Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Vulnerability Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management.

Vulnerability Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (7.30%) Confluence
2 2 (1.46%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.25%) Azure
2 19 (13.87%) AWS
3 11 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.84%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.84%) GCP
5 7 (5.11%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.11%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.38%) IaaS
6 6 (4.38%) Nutanix
6 6 (4.38%) PaaS
6 6 (4.38%) Rubrik
6 6 (4.38%) SaaS
7 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.19%) GitHub
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.46%) Route 53
8 2 (1.46%) Serverless
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (23.36%) Firewall
2 20 (14.60%) DNS
3 14 (10.22%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.57%) DHCP
5 8 (5.84%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (5.11%) VLAN
7 6 (4.38%) Kerberos
7 6 (4.38%) NAS
7 6 (4.38%) Network Security
7 6 (4.38%) SAN
8 5 (3.65%) Wireshark
9 4 (2.92%) tcpdump
10 3 (2.19%) LAN
10 3 (2.19%) SCCP
10 3 (2.19%) VPN
10 3 (2.19%) WAN
11 1 (0.73%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.73%) MPLS
11 1 (0.73%) OSPF
11 1 (0.73%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.11%) Power BI
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Hive
3 4 (2.92%) Hadoop
3 4 (2.92%) Tableau
4 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (9.49%) JIRA
2 8 (5.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.38%) Git
3 6 (4.38%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.92%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.73%) GitLab
General
1 42 (30.66%) Finance
2 20 (14.60%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.11%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.38%) Banking
8 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.19%) Retail
8 3 (2.19%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.73%) Automotive
10 1 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (22.63%) Analyst
2 19 (13.87%) Security Engineer
3 15 (10.95%) Security Analyst
4 12 (8.76%) Security Specialist
4 12 (8.76%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 11 (8.03%) Senior
6 10 (7.30%) Consultant
7 9 (6.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 9 (6.57%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) IT Security Specialist
8 8 (5.84%) Security Consultant
8 8 (5.84%) Security Operations Specialist
8 8 (5.84%) SOC Analyst
9 7 (5.11%) Architect
9 7 (5.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 7 (5.11%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.11%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 7 (5.11%) Senior Security Analyst
9 7 (5.11%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.38%) LDAP
2 4 (2.92%) OLE
3 2 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.73%) EDI
4 1 (0.73%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.20%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.03%) Security Posture
3 10 (7.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (5.84%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (5.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.38%) Clustering
6 6 (4.38%) Replication
7 4 (2.92%) IoT
7 4 (2.92%) YARA
8 3 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.46%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.46%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.55%) Windows
2 27 (19.71%) Linux
3 25 (18.25%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.03%) Unix
5 10 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (7.30%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.38%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (4.38%) Solaris
7 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.04%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (31.39%) SIEM
3 40 (29.20%) Information Security
3 40 (29.20%) Security Operations
4 39 (28.47%) Incident Response
5 25 (18.25%) Data Security
6 23 (16.79%) Data Loss Prevention
7 22 (16.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 19 (13.87%) DevOps
8 19 (13.87%) Penetration Testing
9 17 (12.41%) Risk Management
10 16 (11.68%) Agile
11 15 (10.95%) Cloud Security
12 14 (10.22%) Application Security
12 14 (10.22%) Security Testing
13 13 (9.49%) Incident Management
13 13 (9.49%) ITIL
14 12 (8.76%) Root Cause Analysis
14 12 (8.76%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
14 12 (8.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.84%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.38%) Bash
2 6 (4.38%) Python
3 1 (0.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.87%) CISSP
2 12 (8.76%) CISM
3 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.11%) Degree
4 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.19%) CRISC
7 2 (1.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.73%) CLAS
8 1 (0.73%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.73%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.73%) GCIH
8 1 (0.73%) GIAC
8 1 (0.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.14%) NIST
2 17 (12.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.76%) GDPR
4 8 (5.84%) PCI DSS
5 7 (5.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (4.38%) SLA
7 5 (3.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (1.46%) GRC
9 2 (1.46%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.73%) COBIT
10 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.73%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.73%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (19.71%) Active Directory
2 16 (11.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.38%) Docker
4 5 (3.65%) XenApp
5 4 (2.92%) Snort
6 3 (2.19%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (12.41%) SCCM
2 15 (10.95%) Ansible
3 10 (7.30%) Terraform
4 6 (4.38%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (4.38%) Kibana
4 6 (4.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.38%) Netcool
4 6 (4.38%) Tivoli
4 6 (4.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (2.92%) Nessus
5 4 (2.92%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.92%) Puppet
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (1.46%) logstash
7 2 (1.46%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.46%) Nexpose
7 2 (1.46%) Packer
7 2 (1.46%) Salt
8 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (43.07%) Qualys
2 46 (33.58%) Microsoft
3 28 (20.44%) VMware
4 17 (12.41%) Varonis
5 16 (11.68%) Forcepoint
5 16 (11.68%) LogRhythm
6 14 (10.22%) Splunk
7 11 (8.03%) Cisco
8 9 (6.57%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.84%) CA
9 8 (5.84%) IBM
10 7 (5.11%) Google
11 6 (4.38%) CyberArk
11 6 (4.38%) Dell
11 6 (4.38%) EMC
11 6 (4.38%) HP
11 6 (4.38%) Isilon
11 6 (4.38%) Oracle
11 6 (4.38%) Serena
12 5 (3.65%) Citrix