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 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 255 280 316
Rank change year-on-year +25 +36 +135
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 246 289 389
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.01% 0.78% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.90% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 213 283
10th Percentile £358 £388 £425
25th Percentile £455 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £63.25 - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.04%

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 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 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 1 May 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
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 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 +1 110 £580 -1.28% 231
South East +48 68 £550 +22.22% 87
South West +40 18 £425 -22.73% 35
North of England +24 16 £500 -10.47% 67
Midlands +17 13 £575 +31.43% 33
West Midlands +10 12 £625 +42.86% 17
North West +23 10 £500 -11.82% 41
East of England +19 5 £745 +8.36% 35
Yorkshire +5 4 - - 20
North East - 2 £688 - 7
East Midlands +9 1 £300 -49.66% 15
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 7 (2.85%) Apache
2 4 (1.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.41%) CMS
3 1 (0.41%) nginx
3 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.67%) Azure
2 39 (15.85%) AWS
3 21 (8.54%) Azure Sentinel
4 18 (7.32%) GCP
5 17 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.25%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.85%) IaaS
8 6 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.44%) Serverless
9 5 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.03%) AWS KMS
9 5 (2.03%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (2.03%) SaaS
10 4 (1.63%) Akamai
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (1.63%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (1.63%) PaaS
11 3 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (16.67%) Firewall
2 39 (15.85%) Network Security
3 11 (4.47%) DNS
3 11 (4.47%) VPN
4 9 (3.66%) DHCP
5 7 (2.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (2.85%) SMTP
5 7 (2.85%) WAN
6 6 (2.44%) FTP
6 6 (2.44%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.44%) Telnet
7 5 (2.03%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.63%) tcpdump
9 3 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (1.22%) HTTP
10 2 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (0.81%) Modbus
10 2 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
10 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.25%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.41%) MySQL
3 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.63%) GitLab
1 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.63%) JIRA
2 3 (1.22%) Snyk
3 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.51%) Finance
3 37 (15.04%) Public Sector
4 30 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.50%) Banking
6 12 (4.88%) Legal
7 6 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.63%) Law
10 3 (1.22%) Electronics
10 3 (1.22%) French Language
10 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.22%) Marketing
10 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Aviation
11 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (12.60%) Architect
2 29 (11.79%) Analyst
2 29 (11.79%) Security Engineer
3 28 (11.38%) Security Architect
4 19 (7.72%) Senior
5 18 (7.32%) Security Manager
6 17 (6.91%) Lead
7 13 (5.28%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.88%) Security Analyst
9 10 (4.07%) Consultant
10 9 (3.66%) Administrator
10 9 (3.66%) Security Project Manager
11 8 (3.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 8 (3.25%) Security Consultant
11 8 (3.25%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.25%) Senior Security Architect
11 8 (3.25%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 7 (2.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 7 (2.85%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.44%) JSON
1 6 (2.44%) REST
2 3 (1.22%) LDAP
3 2 (0.81%) .NET
3 2 (0.81%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.81%) Kafka
3 2 (0.81%) Node.js
3 2 (0.81%) React
4 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.41%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.41%) OAuth
4 1 (0.41%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.41%) RESTful
4 1 (0.41%) SAML
4 1 (0.41%) Swagger
4 1 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.11%) Security Posture
2 28 (11.38%) Management Information System
3 23 (9.35%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (6.50%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.25%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.85%) CSOC
7 7 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (2.03%) SCADA
9 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.22%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.22%) PKI
11 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.81%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.41%) Windows
2 24 (9.76%) Linux
3 22 (8.94%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.81%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) Solaris
7 1 (0.41%) Unix
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (41.87%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (32.93%) Incident Response
3 76 (30.89%) SIEM
4 58 (23.58%) Security Operations
5 53 (21.54%) Cloud Security
6 46 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 41 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
8 37 (15.04%) Information Security
8 37 (15.04%) Risk Management
9 31 (12.60%) Security Architecture
10 29 (11.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 28 (11.38%) Data Loss Prevention
12 26 (10.57%) Penetration Testing
12 26 (10.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 25 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.35%) Identity Access Management
16 22 (8.94%) Security Monitoring
17 21 (8.54%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.98%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.16%) Python
3 14 (5.69%) Bash
4 5 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.63%) SQL
6 3 (1.22%) Java
6 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.81%) Perl
7 2 (0.81%) PHP
8 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 72 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 64 (26.02%) SC Cleared
3 51 (20.73%) CISSP
4 26 (10.57%) CISM
5 23 (9.35%) Degree
6 13 (5.28%) CEH
6 13 (5.28%) GIAC
7 12 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.88%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (4.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (4.07%) GCIH
10 9 (3.66%) CCSP
10 9 (3.66%) CISA
10 9 (3.66%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.85%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.44%) AWS Certification
12 6 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.44%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (17.89%) NIST
3 21 (8.54%) GDPR
4 10 (4.07%) PCI DSS
5 9 (3.66%) NCSC
5 9 (3.66%) SLA
6 7 (2.85%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.44%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.03%) GRC
9 4 (1.63%) COBIT
9 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.63%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.81%) QA
12 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.41%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.41%) PMO
12 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (6.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.25%) Docker
3 6 (2.44%) NFS
3 6 (2.44%) Samba
3 6 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.63%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.22%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
7 1 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.10%) Terraform
3 14 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.88%) Ansible
5 10 (4.07%) Nessus
5 10 (4.07%) SCCM
6 9 (3.66%) yum
7 6 (2.44%) QRadar
8 5 (2.03%) Grafana
8 5 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.63%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.63%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (1.22%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (1.22%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (0.81%) Argo
11 2 (0.81%) CASB
11 2 (0.81%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.41%) Istio
12 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 62 (25.20%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.98%) Qualys
3 23 (9.35%) Tenable
4 17 (6.91%) Google
5 14 (5.69%) Splunk
6 13 (5.28%) Cisco
7 12 (4.88%) Palo Alto
7 12 (4.88%) VMware
8 9 (3.66%) Red Hat
9 8 (3.25%) Rapid7
10 7 (2.85%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.44%) CyberArk
11 6 (2.44%) LogRhythm
12 5 (2.03%) CheckPoint
12 5 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (2.03%) McAfee
13 4 (1.63%) Citrix
13 4 (1.63%) HP
13 4 (1.63%) IBM
13 4 (1.63%) Zscaler