OpenVAS Contracts in England

OpenVAS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OpenVAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenVAS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 - 651
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenVAS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% - 0.004%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.026% - 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - £585
UK median daily rate - - £525

All Systems Management Skills
England

OpenVAS falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

OpenVAS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OpenVAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OpenVAS in England

OpenVAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenVAS in England.

Daily rate trend for OpenVAS in England

OpenVAS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenVAS within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
OpenVAS
UK

OpenVAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) MISP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk