Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Vulnerability Remediation
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £450 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +12.50% -33.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 144 93 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 69.57% 95.88% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 64 98
10th Percentile £350 £201 £175
25th Percentile £382 £350 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.56% -12.20%
75th Percentile £587 £556 £630
90th Percentile £703 £595 £734
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 35
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.57 £11.87
25th Percentile £22.38 £15.23 £13.69
Median hourly rate £61.73 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +298.27% -0.77% -72.25%
75th Percentile £72.54 £35.63 £56.91
90th Percentile £74.68 £67.50 £63.25
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in Dorset

Vulnerability Remediation
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Poole - 1 - - 1
Vulnerability Remediation
South West

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware