Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in England

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment 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 400 442 554
Rank change year-on-year +42 +112 +116
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 85 100 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 65 74
10th Percentile - £375 £400
25th Percentile £500 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £728 £725 £714
90th Percentile £759 £833 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile - £55.00 -
25th Percentile £26.88 £60.63 £71.20
Median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% -3.31% -
75th Percentile £74.87 - £73.59
90th Percentile £88.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £72.40
% change year-on-year -12.15% -3.31% +80.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Assessment 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in England

Vulnerability Assessment
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 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
London +4 31 £525 +0.96% 72
South East +60 27 £663 -17.19% 121
North of England +31 17 £650 -7.14% 102
North West +26 13 £606 -6.73% 44
South West +40 4 £500 -16.67% 66
Yorkshire +11 4 £700 -36.36% 45
Midlands +21 2 £775 +19.23% 91
West Midlands +13 2 £775 +19.23% 50
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:

Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.53%) Azure
2 17 (20.00%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) GCP
4 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (2.35%) AWS KMS
6 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.35%) Serverless
6 2 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.18%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.18%) IaaS
7 1 (1.18%) PaaS
7 1 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 21 (24.71%) Firewall
2 13 (15.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 12 (14.12%) Network Security
4 4 (4.71%) DNS
4 4 (4.71%) Ethernet
4 4 (4.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.71%) VPN
5 3 (3.53%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.53%) DWDM
5 3 (3.53%) LAN
5 3 (3.53%) WAN
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.18%) DHCP
6 1 (1.18%) VLAN
6 1 (1.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) GitLab
2 4 (4.71%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
3 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.53%) Snyk
3 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.18%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.18%) Metasploit
General
1 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.06%) Military
5 5 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Finance
5 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.71%) Automotive
6 4 (4.71%) Police
7 3 (3.53%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.35%) Aviation
8 2 (2.35%) Legal
8 2 (2.35%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.18%) Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Electronics
9 1 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (31.76%) Senior
2 14 (16.47%) Security Specialist
3 13 (15.29%) Architect
3 13 (15.29%) Information Security Specialist
3 13 (15.29%) Information Specialist
3 13 (15.29%) Security Architect
3 13 (15.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 13 (15.29%) Senior Security Specialist
4 12 (14.12%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 11 (12.94%) Security Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Lead
7 7 (8.24%) Consultant
8 6 (7.06%) Security Consultant
9 5 (5.88%) Administrator
9 5 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Information Security Consultant
9 5 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
9 5 (5.88%) Security Advisor
10 3 (3.53%) Security Analyst
10 3 (3.53%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.88%) JBoss Seam
2 5 (5.88%) JSON
3 2 (2.35%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.35%) Node.js
4 1 (1.18%) EDI
4 1 (1.18%) OAuth
4 1 (1.18%) SAML
4 1 (1.18%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 24 (28.24%) Management Information System
2 12 (14.12%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Robotics
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.18%) CESG
5 1 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.18%) IoT
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Linux
2 9 (10.59%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.35%) Unix
5 1 (1.18%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.29%) Risk Management
2 29 (34.12%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (34.12%) Information Security
3 28 (32.94%) Security Architecture
4 26 (30.59%) Risk Assessment
5 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (20.00%) DevOps
6 17 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
7 16 (18.82%) Decision-Making
7 16 (18.82%) Incident Response
8 15 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
8 15 (17.65%) SIEM
9 13 (15.29%) Cloud Security
9 13 (15.29%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (14.12%) Information Assurance
11 11 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (12.94%) Mentoring
11 11 (12.94%) Migration
12 10 (11.76%) Threat Detection
13 9 (10.59%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.82%) Python
2 9 (10.59%) Bash
3 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.53%) Perl
4 3 (3.53%) SQL
5 2 (2.35%) C++
5 2 (2.35%) Java
5 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.35%) Rust
6 1 (1.18%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 15 (17.65%) CISM
4 12 (14.12%) CISSP
5 11 (12.94%) SC Cleared
6 10 (11.76%) Degree
7 6 (7.06%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (5.88%) SANS
9 4 (4.71%) CCNA
9 4 (4.71%) CEH
9 4 (4.71%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (3.53%) CCNP
10 3 (3.53%) JNCIA
10 3 (3.53%) JNCIS
11 2 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.35%) CCSP
11 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
12 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (20.00%) GDPR
3 13 (15.29%) NCSC
4 12 (14.12%) NIST
5 6 (7.06%) PCI DSS
6 5 (5.88%) HIPAA
7 4 (4.71%) QA
8 3 (3.53%) AUTOSAR
8 3 (3.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (2.35%) GRC
10 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.06%) Terraform
2 4 (4.71%) Ansible
2 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.53%) Grafana
4 2 (2.35%) CASB
4 2 (2.35%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.35%) Nessus
5 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.18%) SCCM
5 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) Darktrace
3 4 (4.71%) Cisco
3 4 (4.71%) Oracle
3 4 (4.71%) Planview
4 3 (3.53%) Arista
4 3 (3.53%) Coverity
4 3 (3.53%) Tenable
4 3 (3.53%) Veracode
5 2 (2.35%) Alibaba
5 2 (2.35%) Ribbon
5 2 (2.35%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.18%) Apple
6 1 (1.18%) Aruba
6 1 (1.18%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) McAfee
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.18%) Symantec
6 1 (1.18%) VMware