Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in England

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 551 678
Rank change year-on-year +102 +127 -88
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 99 105 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.23% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 81 82
10th Percentile £375 £400 £378
25th Percentile £425 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -8.33% +47.69%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £738
90th Percentile £831 £738 £763
UK median daily rate £531 £525 £590
% change year-on-year +1.19% -11.02% +40.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.31% +80.99% -37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Assessment is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in England.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in England

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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 Vulnerability Assessment within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
London +125 64 £520 -0.95% 19
South East +25 13 £800 +32.23% 4
South West +20 11 £600 - 4
North of England +26 5 £700 +55.56% 3
North West +26 4 £650 +44.44% 2
Midlands +24 3 £650 -8.77% 1
West Midlands +14 3 £650 -10.34% 1
Yorkshire +20 1 £1,100 +76.00%
East of England +6 1 - - 7
Vulnerability Assessment
UK

Vulnerability Assessment
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.01%) Apache
1 1 (1.01%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.15%) Azure
2 11 (11.11%) AWS
3 4 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.03%) GCP
5 2 (2.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (2.02%) GitHub
5 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.02%) PaaS
5 2 (2.02%) SaaS
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.01%) Figma
6 1 (1.01%) IaaS
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (32.32%) Firewall
2 26 (26.26%) Network Security
3 16 (16.16%) BGP
3 16 (16.16%) MPLS
4 10 (10.10%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (10.10%) Cisco ISE
5 8 (8.08%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (8.08%) IOS XR
5 8 (8.08%) RSVP
6 6 (6.06%) 5G
6 6 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 6 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (5.05%) Wireless
8 4 (4.04%) DNS
8 4 (4.04%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.04%) VPN
8 4 (4.04%) WAN
9 3 (3.03%) LAN
10 2 (2.02%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (14.14%) Git
2 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.01%) JIRA
4 1 (1.01%) MSI
4 1 (1.01%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.08%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Finance
5 7 (7.07%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.04%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.02%) Banking
8 2 (2.02%) Electronics
8 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.02%) Marketing
8 2 (2.02%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.02%) Retail
9 1 (1.01%) Advertising
9 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Law
9 1 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (22.22%) Analyst
2 20 (20.20%) Network Engineer
3 15 (15.15%) Design Engineer
3 15 (15.15%) Network Design Engineer
4 14 (14.14%) Security Analyst
5 9 (9.09%) Consultant
6 7 (7.07%) Administrator
6 7 (7.07%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Lead
7 6 (6.06%) Network Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Network Security Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Server Administrator
8 5 (5.05%) Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Security Consultant
8 5 (5.05%) SOC Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Windows Administrator
8 5 (5.05%) Windows Server Administrator
9 4 (4.04%) Penetration Tester
9 4 (4.04%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.13%) JSON
1 13 (13.13%) NETCONF
1 13 (13.13%) XML
1 13 (13.13%) YANG
2 2 (2.02%) OpenID
2 2 (2.02%) SAML
3 1 (1.01%) CSS
3 1 (1.01%) EDI
3 1 (1.01%) Flutter
3 1 (1.01%) HTML
3 1 (1.01%) Jest
3 1 (1.01%) LDAP
3 1 (1.01%) Middleware
3 1 (1.01%) Node.js
3 1 (1.01%) ODBC
3 1 (1.01%) React Native
3 1 (1.01%) REST
3 1 (1.01%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Security Posture
2 9 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 8 (8.08%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (7.07%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.05%) IoT
5 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.04%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.03%) SCADA
8 2 (2.02%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.02%) PKI
8 2 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.23%) Windows
2 13 (13.13%) Linux
3 8 (8.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.04%) Unix
4 4 (4.04%) VMS
5 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.01%) AIX
7 1 (1.01%) CentOS
7 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.01%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.01%) Solaris
7 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.42%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (24.24%) DevOps
3 18 (18.18%) Incident Response
3 18 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
4 17 (17.17%) SIEM
5 16 (16.16%) Information Security
5 16 (16.16%) Network Design
5 16 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.15%) Business Strategy
6 15 (15.15%) Risk Assessment
7 14 (14.14%) Roadmaps
8 13 (13.13%) Decision-Making
8 13 (13.13%) Risk Management
9 11 (11.11%) Agile
9 11 (11.11%) Security Operations
10 10 (10.10%) Cloud Security
10 10 (10.10%) OWASP
10 10 (10.10%) Threat Modelling
10 10 (10.10%) Vulnerability Management
11 9 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.25%) Python
2 6 (6.06%) C#
2 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.05%) Go
4 2 (2.02%) C
4 2 (2.02%) C++
4 2 (2.02%) Java
4 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.02%) Perl
4 2 (2.02%) Ruby
4 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.01%) Bash
5 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.01%) SQL
5 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.24%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (21.21%) CCNP
4 15 (15.15%) CISSP
5 14 (14.14%) CISM
5 14 (14.14%) DV Cleared
6 13 (13.13%) Degree
6 13 (13.13%) SC Cleared
7 11 (11.11%) CREST Certified
7 11 (11.11%) OSCP
8 8 (8.08%) CEH
9 7 (7.07%) GIAC
10 5 (5.05%) CCNA
10 5 (5.05%) CHECK Team Leader
10 5 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (3.03%) CRISC
12 2 (2.02%) CSSLP
12 2 (2.02%) GCIA
12 2 (2.02%) GCIH
12 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.22%) NIST
2 16 (16.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (9.09%) NCSC
4 5 (5.05%) PCI DSS
5 4 (4.04%) ISO 31000
6 3 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (3.03%) COBIT
6 3 (3.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.02%) ISO 22301
7 2 (2.02%) QA
8 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.01%) GRC
8 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.06%) Firmware
3 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.01%) Docker
4 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (16.16%) Nessus
2 10 (10.10%) Ansible
3 7 (7.07%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.04%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (3.03%) Terraform
6 2 (2.02%) CSIRT
6 2 (2.02%) QRadar
6 2 (2.02%) SCCM
7 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.01%) WMI
7 1 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (22.22%) Cisco
2 16 (16.16%) Nokia
2 16 (16.16%) Palo Alto
3 12 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.12%) Qualys
4 10 (10.10%) Juniper
5 9 (9.09%) ScienceLogic
6 8 (8.08%) Rapid7
6 8 (8.08%) VMware
7 6 (6.06%) F5
7 6 (6.06%) Fortinet
7 6 (6.06%) SAP
7 6 (6.06%) Sophos
8 5 (5.05%) Veeam
9 4 (4.04%) Splunk
10 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (2.02%) Huawei
11 2 (2.02%) Okta
11 2 (2.02%) Oracle