Vulnerability Management Contracts in Berkshire

Vulnerability Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 89 97
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 27 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.25% 1.43% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.67% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 11
10th Percentile £400 £470 £456
25th Percentile £450 £491 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% +8.00% -3.71%
75th Percentile £600 £552 £575
90th Percentile £660 £572 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +10.53% -17.39% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Vulnerability Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,108 1,500 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.33% 85.81% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 794 1,010
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £699 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 77 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.40 £17.17
25th Percentile £17.69 £41.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £34.80 £61.60 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -43.51% +8.29% +89.62%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.39 £70.90
90th Percentile £87.48 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +113.77%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in Berkshire

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in Berkshire

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in Berkshire

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 August 2025. 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
Reading +16 11 £583 +7.92% 5
Wokingham - 7 £517 -
Bracknell - 4 £450 - 1
Slough - 2 £700 -
Vulnerability Management
South East

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) SonarCloud
5 1 (3.70%) IaaS
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Network Security
2 4 (14.81%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) BGP
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) LAN
3 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Snyk
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 5 (18.52%) SIEM Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Security Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Auditor
5 2 (7.41%) Compliance Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Compliance Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Data Compliance Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Information Security Auditor
5 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Security Auditor
5 2 (7.41%) Security Compliance Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) SOC Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Vulnerability Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) JSON
1 5 (18.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Security Posture
2 6 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 5 (18.52%) CSOC
4 4 (14.81%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (14.81%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
7 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
7 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (51.85%) SIEM
2 12 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (37.04%) Security Operations
4 9 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
6 7 (25.93%) Information Security
7 6 (22.22%) Cloud Security
7 6 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
7 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 6 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
8 5 (18.52%) Application Security
8 5 (18.52%) Process Improvement
8 5 (18.52%) Security Architecture
8 5 (18.52%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 5 (18.52%) Threat Intelligence
8 5 (18.52%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (18.52%) Zero Trust
9 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) CISSP
2 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) GIAC
4 4 (14.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (14.81%) CCSP
4 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (14.81%) CISM
4 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (11.11%) CISMP
5 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.70%) CCNA
6 1 (3.70%) CCNP
6 1 (3.70%) CEH
6 1 (3.70%) CISA
6 1 (3.70%) GCIA
6 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) NIST
2 7 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
3 5 (18.52%) GDPR
4 4 (14.81%) PCI DSS
5 3 (11.11%) PSD2
6 1 (3.70%) COBIT
6 1 (3.70%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) yum
3 1 (3.70%) Nessus
3 1 (3.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.11%) Splunk
2 2 (7.41%) Rapid7
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) HP
3 1 (3.70%) Kenna
3 1 (3.70%) Qualys
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Tenable