Vulnerability Management Contracts in the City of London

Vulnerability Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 114 141
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 +35
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 13 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.46% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.51% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 24
10th Percentile £513 £569 £395
25th Percentile £517 £611 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +20.45% -
75th Percentile £669 £716 £584
90th Percentile £700 £939 £686
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +3.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the City of London

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the City of London

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the City of London

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Macie
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) French Language
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Security Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Operational Security Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Operations Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Security Operations Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Security Technical Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Information Security Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Security Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) CSOC
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (30.77%) SIEM
3 4 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Break/Fix
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Information Security
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Red Team
5 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
6 1 (7.69%) Service Management
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (7.69%) CCSP
3 1 (7.69%) CEH
3 1 (7.69%) CISA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
3 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) CASB
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Forcepoint
2 2 (15.38%) Tenable
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Qualys
3 1 (7.69%) Tripwire