Vulnerability Management Contracts in England

Vulnerability Management
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 281 301
Rank change year-on-year +37 +20 +125
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 276 302 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 0.81% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.95% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 214 297
10th Percentile £313 £383 £425
25th Percentile £448 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £28.52 - £22.88
25th Percentile £29.79 £56.25 £23.44
Median hourly rate £43.62 £57.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +119.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £90.81 £58.75 £28.44
90th Percentile £102.75 - £28.63
UK median hourly rate £43.62 £57.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year -24.14% +119.05% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Management 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 24,147 31,870 43,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 85.64% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,520 20,680 30,282
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,216 2,288 1,563
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%
75th Percentile £54.81 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.73 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +27 144 £550 - 418
South East +28 54 £524 +16.44% 106
South West +32 19 £400 -34.69% 39
East of England +31 16 £475 -29.63% 51
North of England +2 16 £638 +12.43% 132
North West +9 12 £588 +3.62% 71
Midlands +2 10 £625 +16.28% 68
West Midlands 0 9 £663 +32.50% 40
Yorkshire +1 2 - - 50
North East - 2 £688 - 11
East Midlands -3 1 £300 -52.00% 27
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
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 5 (1.81%) CMS
2 4 (1.45%) Confluence
2 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Apache
3 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) 1Password
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.36%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 97 (35.14%) Azure
2 51 (18.48%) AWS
3 25 (9.06%) GCP
4 21 (7.61%) Azure Sentinel
5 17 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.62%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.90%) SaaS
8 7 (2.54%) IaaS
8 7 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.54%) Serverless
9 6 (2.17%) Akamai
9 6 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.81%) GitHub
10 5 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.81%) PaaS
11 4 (1.45%) AWS KMS
11 4 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.45%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 57 (20.65%) Firewall
2 49 (17.75%) Network Security
3 15 (5.43%) VPN
4 10 (3.62%) WAN
5 8 (2.90%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.81%) HTTP
6 5 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.45%) LAN
7 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.09%) DNS
8 3 (1.09%) Wireless
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.72%) Modbus
9 2 (0.72%) MPLS
9 2 (0.72%) SAN
9 2 (0.72%) SSL
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.36%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.54%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.90%) JIRA
2 7 (2.54%) GitLab
2 7 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.81%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.45%) Snyk
5 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
General
1 66 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.75%) Finance
3 32 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.80%) Banking
6 13 (4.71%) Legal
7 8 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.09%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (0.72%) French Language
12 2 (0.72%) Police
12 2 (0.72%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 45 (16.30%) Architect
2 40 (14.49%) Analyst
2 40 (14.49%) Security Architect
3 34 (12.32%) Security Engineer
4 22 (7.97%) Senior
5 21 (7.61%) Lead
5 21 (7.61%) Security Analyst
6 19 (6.88%) Consultant
7 15 (5.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 15 (5.43%) Security Manager
8 13 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.71%) Security Consultant
9 11 (3.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 11 (3.99%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.99%) Senior Architect
9 11 (3.99%) Senior Security Architect
10 10 (3.62%) Security Specialist
11 8 (2.90%) IT Architect
11 8 (2.90%) IT Security Architect
11 8 (2.90%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.81%) JSON
1 5 (1.81%) REST
2 4 (1.45%) .NET
2 4 (1.45%) React
3 2 (0.72%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.72%) Kafka
3 2 (0.72%) Node.js
4 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.36%) EDI
4 1 (0.36%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.36%) OAuth
4 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.36%) RESTful
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.36%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.36%) Swagger
4 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.65%) Security Posture
2 29 (10.51%) Management Information System
3 22 (7.97%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (5.80%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.54%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.54%) PKI
7 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.17%) SCADA
8 5 (1.81%) CSOC
8 5 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.41%) Windows
2 26 (9.42%) Windows Server
3 25 (9.06%) Linux
4 7 (2.54%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Unix
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (44.20%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (34.06%) Incident Response
3 87 (31.52%) SIEM
4 71 (25.72%) Security Operations
5 63 (22.83%) Cloud Security
6 54 (19.57%) Information Security
7 49 (17.75%) Threat Intelligence
8 43 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (15.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 40 (14.49%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 39 (14.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 36 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
13 35 (12.68%) Risk Management
14 34 (12.32%) Security Architecture
15 31 (11.23%) Data Loss Prevention
16 29 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (10.14%) DevOps
17 28 (10.14%) Patch Management
18 27 (9.78%) Identity Access Management
18 27 (9.78%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 39 (14.13%) Python
2 36 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 25 (9.06%) Bash
4 9 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (2.17%) Java
6 5 (1.81%) SQL
6 5 (1.81%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.45%) PHP
8 3 (1.09%) Perl
9 1 (0.36%) Bicep
9 1 (0.36%) Go
9 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 59 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.29%) CISSP
3 55 (19.93%) SC Cleared
4 31 (11.23%) CISM
5 26 (9.42%) Degree
6 18 (6.52%) CEH
6 18 (6.52%) GIAC
7 17 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 12 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 12 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.99%) CCSP
11 10 (3.62%) GCIH
12 8 (2.90%) SANS
13 6 (2.17%) CISA
13 6 (2.17%) OSCP
14 5 (1.81%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.81%) CREST Certified
14 5 (1.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 5 (1.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (23.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (22.10%) NIST
3 34 (12.32%) GDPR
4 22 (7.97%) PCI DSS
5 15 (5.43%) HIPAA
6 13 (4.71%) GRC
6 13 (4.71%) NCSC
7 12 (4.35%) SLA
8 10 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (2.17%) Data Quality
10 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (1.81%) COBIT
12 4 (1.45%) QA
13 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
13 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
13 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 1 (0.36%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 17 (6.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.99%) Docker
3 8 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 21 (7.61%) Nessus
2 18 (6.52%) Terraform
3 16 (5.80%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (4.35%) SCCM
6 11 (3.99%) Ansible
7 6 (2.17%) Grafana
7 6 (2.17%) QRadar
7 6 (2.17%) WSUS
8 5 (1.81%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.45%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.72%) Argo
10 2 (0.72%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.72%) SELinux
10 2 (0.72%) yum
11 1 (0.36%) logstash
11 1 (0.36%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (27.90%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.58%) Qualys
3 30 (10.87%) Tenable
4 18 (6.52%) Cisco
4 18 (6.52%) Google
4 18 (6.52%) Splunk
5 16 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 14 (5.07%) Palo Alto
7 13 (4.71%) Rapid7
8 7 (2.54%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.54%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.54%) VMware
9 6 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.81%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.81%) SAP
10 5 (1.81%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.45%) Imperva
12 3 (1.09%) LogRhythm
12 3 (1.09%) Meraki
12 3 (1.09%) SolarWinds