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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 275 300
Rank change year-on-year +31 +25 +122
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 265 309 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 0.83% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.97% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 219 300
10th Percentile £313 £388 £413
25th Percentile £450 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £640 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £767 £788
UK median daily rate £534 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.20% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £28.12 - £22.88
25th Percentile £29.02 £56.25 £23.44
Median hourly rate £43.00 £57.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +119.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72.44 £58.75 £28.44
90th Percentile £88.98 - £28.63
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £57.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year -25.23% +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 22,892 31,876 42,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.36% 85.33% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,789 20,642 29,656
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 2,365 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.77 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +28 134 £553 -3.87% 193
South East +30 57 £525 +10.53% 83
South West +39 19 £400 -27.27% 25
North of England +28 16 £638 +13.13% 56
East of England +22 12 £475 -29.63% 29
North West +10 12 £588 +4.26% 30
Midlands -3 10 £625 +21.95% 27
West Midlands -3 9 £663 +51.43% 14
Yorkshire 0 2 - - 20
North East - 2 £688 - 6
East Midlands +1 1 £300 -52.00% 12
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 (1.89%) CMS
2 4 (1.51%) Confluence
2 4 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) 1Password
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.38%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (33.21%) Azure
2 44 (16.60%) AWS
3 22 (8.30%) GCP
4 19 (7.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 17 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.40%) Entra ID
7 8 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.02%) Serverless
8 7 (2.64%) IaaS
8 7 (2.64%) SaaS
9 6 (2.26%) Akamai
9 6 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.89%) AWS KMS
10 5 (1.89%) GitHub
10 5 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.51%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (19.62%) Firewall
2 48 (18.11%) Network Security
3 14 (5.28%) VPN
4 8 (3.02%) WAN
5 7 (2.64%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (1.89%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.13%) DNS
8 3 (1.13%) HTTP
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.75%) LAN
9 2 (0.75%) Modbus
9 2 (0.75%) SMTP
9 2 (0.75%) SSL
9 2 (0.75%) tcpdump
9 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.75%) Wireless
10 1 (0.38%) BGP
10 1 (0.38%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.64%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.51%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.75%) Tableau
4 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.38%) MySQL
4 1 (0.38%) Power BI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (2.64%) GitLab
1 7 (2.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.26%) JIRA
3 5 (1.89%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.13%) Snyk
5 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
General
1 61 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.11%) Finance
3 32 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 30 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.66%) Banking
6 12 (4.53%) Legal
7 7 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.51%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.13%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) French Language
11 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Law
11 2 (0.75%) Military
11 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (15.85%) Architect
2 38 (14.34%) Security Architect
3 36 (13.58%) Analyst
4 30 (11.32%) Security Engineer
5 20 (7.55%) Lead
5 20 (7.55%) Security Analyst
6 18 (6.79%) Consultant
6 18 (6.79%) Senior
7 15 (5.66%) Security Manager
8 13 (4.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 13 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.91%) Security Consultant
9 11 (4.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 11 (4.15%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.77%) Security Specialist
11 9 (3.40%) Senior Architect
11 9 (3.40%) Senior Security Architect
12 8 (3.02%) IT Architect
12 8 (3.02%) IT Security Architect
12 8 (3.02%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.89%) JSON
1 5 (1.89%) REST
2 2 (0.75%) .NET
2 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.75%) Kafka
2 2 (0.75%) Node.js
2 2 (0.75%) React
3 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.38%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.38%) LDAP
3 1 (0.38%) OAuth
3 1 (0.38%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.38%) RESTful
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.38%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.38%) Swagger
3 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (20.75%) Security Posture
2 31 (11.70%) Management Information System
3 20 (7.55%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (5.66%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (4.91%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.64%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.64%) PKI
7 6 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.26%) SCADA
8 5 (1.89%) CSOC
9 4 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.51%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.58%) Windows
2 26 (9.81%) Windows Server
3 24 (9.06%) Linux
4 7 (2.64%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Solaris
6 1 (0.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (43.02%) Cybersecurity
2 90 (33.96%) Incident Response
3 81 (30.57%) SIEM
4 65 (24.53%) Security Operations
5 56 (21.13%) Cloud Security
6 52 (19.62%) Information Security
7 44 (16.60%) Threat Intelligence
8 41 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (14.34%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 37 (13.96%) Risk Management
10 37 (13.96%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 35 (13.21%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 34 (12.83%) Penetration Testing
12 34 (12.83%) Security Architecture
13 32 (12.08%) Data Loss Prevention
14 30 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (10.19%) Identity Access Management
16 26 (9.81%) CI/CD
16 26 (9.81%) Patch Management
17 24 (9.06%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.08%) Python
2 30 (11.32%) PowerShell
3 20 (7.55%) Bash
4 8 (3.02%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (1.89%) SQL
6 4 (1.51%) Java
7 3 (1.13%) Perl
7 3 (1.13%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.75%) PHP
9 1 (0.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 62 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.89%) SC Cleared
3 54 (20.38%) CISSP
4 31 (11.70%) CISM
5 27 (10.19%) Degree
6 17 (6.42%) GIAC
7 14 (5.28%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (4.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 13 (4.91%) CEH
9 12 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (4.15%) CCSP
10 11 (4.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (3.77%) GCIH
12 8 (3.02%) CISA
12 8 (3.02%) SANS
13 6 (2.26%) AWS Certification
13 6 (2.26%) Master's Degree
13 6 (2.26%) OSCP
14 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (23.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (21.51%) NIST
3 31 (11.70%) GDPR
4 20 (7.55%) PCI DSS
5 13 (4.91%) HIPAA
5 13 (4.91%) NCSC
6 11 (4.15%) GRC
6 11 (4.15%) SLA
7 8 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (2.26%) Data Quality
9 6 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (1.89%) COBIT
11 4 (1.51%) QA
12 3 (1.13%) NIST 800
12 3 (1.13%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 17 (6.42%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.15%) Docker
3 5 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.13%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.38%) NFS
6 1 (0.38%) Samba
6 1 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (7.17%) Nessus
2 18 (6.79%) Terraform
3 17 (6.42%) Kubernetes
4 14 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.15%) Ansible
6 10 (3.77%) SCCM
7 6 (2.26%) Grafana
7 6 (2.26%) QRadar
7 6 (2.26%) WSUS
8 5 (1.89%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.51%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.13%) yum
11 2 (0.75%) Argo
11 2 (0.75%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.75%) SELinux
12 1 (0.38%) CASB
12 1 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.38%) Istio
Vendors
1 70 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.72%) Qualys
3 24 (9.06%) Tenable
4 17 (6.42%) Google
5 16 (6.04%) Cisco
5 16 (6.04%) Splunk
6 12 (4.53%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.53%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.15%) Rapid7
8 8 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.02%) VMware
9 7 (2.64%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.89%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.51%) Imperva
11 4 (1.51%) SAP
11 4 (1.51%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.13%) LogRhythm
12 3 (1.13%) Meraki
12 3 (1.13%) SolarWinds