Vulnerability Management Engineer Contracts in England

Vulnerability Management Engineer
UK > England

The median Vulnerability Management Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 538 646
Rank change year-on-year +58 +108 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Management Engineer 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.011% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.012% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £481 £425 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £373
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +29.19% -44.81%
75th Percentile £531 £583 £428
90th Percentile £535 £698 £455
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £373
% change year-on-year +10.53% +27.52% -44.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Vulnerability Management Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management Engineer in England

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management Engineer in England

Vulnerability Management Engineer
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 Management Engineer 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 +39 3 £525 +16.67% 4
South East - 1 £450 - 1
Vulnerability Management Engineer
UK

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Vulnerability Management Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Vulnerability Management Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (40.00%) Tenable
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Nessus
3 1 (20.00%) CEH
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Server Patching
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) CEH
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) GIAC
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Qualys
1 2 (40.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Rapid7