Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in the City of London

Vulnerability Scanning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 122 158
Rank change year-on-year +6 +36 +43
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 5 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £502 £446 £375
25th Percentile £504 £478 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £499 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -9.32% +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £531 £659
90th Percentile £595 £588 £725
Central London median daily rate £542 £499 £550
% change year-on-year +8.62% -9.32% +15.79%

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 1,772 1,905 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.06% 91.54% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,293 2,068
10th Percentile £338 £363 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 18
10th Percentile £17.57 £19.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.50 £15.59
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -27.84% -12.72%
75th Percentile £54.75 £78.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -16.67%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the City of London

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the City of London

Vulnerability Scanning
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Tenable