Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Vulnerability Remediation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 66 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.24% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £488 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £463 £567
Median % change year-on-year +11.62% -18.43% -8.84%
75th Percentile £533 £469 -
90th Percentile £535 - -
England median daily rate £533 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -3.18% -1.12% +1.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 921 649 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.64% 85.51% 80.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 447 407
10th Percentile £241 £250 £270
25th Percentile £400 £340 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -8.40%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £653 £625 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 58 39
10th Percentile £13.14 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £14.83
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.94 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +3.36% -40.67%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £27.45
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
Nottinghamshire -19 1 - - 3
Leicestershire - 1 £533 - 3
Lincolnshire - 1 £500 -
Vulnerability Remediation
England

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Penetration Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Offensive Security
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Social Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
2 1 (33.33%) ECSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) VMware