Vulnerability Scanning Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Vulnerability Scanning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 113 136
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 +48
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 7 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.49% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.53% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - £573 £528
25th Percentile £463 £663 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% +51.90%
75th Percentile £538 £744 £688
90th Percentile £607 £845 £740
Central London median daily rate £525 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% +51.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Vulnerability Scanning 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 1,666 1,894 2,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.40% 92.17% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,158 1,603
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.52 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.12 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in the City of London

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the City of London

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Programme Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
3 2 (28.57%) Application Security
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) Tenable
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco