Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Vulnerability Remediation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 120 139
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 +57
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 6 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.34% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.36% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 11
10th Percentile £428 £566 -
25th Percentile £513 £575 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £619 £672 £624
90th Percentile £645 £1,345 £678
Central London median daily rate £534 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -11.04% +11.11% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Vulnerability Remediation 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 1,641 1,942 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.56% 91.47% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,194 1,754
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -35.15%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +6.87% -24.26%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the City of London

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Mimecast
3 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Apigee
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JWT
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Release Management
2 2 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Management
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (16.67%) API Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat