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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 116 137
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +39
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 13 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.75% 0.55% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.61% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 24
10th Percentile £513 £433 £395
25th Percentile £518 £544 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £653 £697 £584
90th Percentile £700 £916 £686
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -

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 1,613 1,970 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.56% 90.41% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,391 2,190
10th Percentile £351 £350 £356
25th Percentile £461 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -12.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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 21 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 4 (30.77%) 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%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Support
1 2 (15.38%) Architect
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Security Architect
1 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (15.38%) Lead
1 2 (15.38%) Operational Security Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Operations Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
1 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Security Operations Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Security Technical Architect
1 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
2 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (46.15%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
2 4 (30.77%) SIEM
2 4 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Break/Fix
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
4 2 (15.38%) Red Team
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
4 2 (15.38%) Security Patching
4 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) 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
3 1 (7.69%) CREST Certified
3 1 (7.69%) GIAC
3 1 (7.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
2 1 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) CASB
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Nessus
2 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Tenable
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Forcepoint
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Qualys
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) Sun
4 1 (7.69%) Tripwire