Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in England

Vulnerability Remediation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Vulnerability Remediation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 568 669
Rank change year-on-year +84 +101 -126
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 59 80 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 52 89
10th Percentile £375 £450 £361
25th Percentile £425 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £565
90th Percentile £726 £661 £601
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Remediation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 +96 39 £588 +6.82% 23
South East +27 11 £420 -34.12% 6
North of England +26 2 £834 +99.64% 4
North West +23 1 £567 +62.00% 4
Yorkshire +21 1 £1,100 +158.82%
East Midlands +21 1 £567 +0.22% 2
Midlands +16 1 £567 +3.09% 4
Vulnerability Remediation
UK

Vulnerability Remediation
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 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.29%) Azure
2 17 (28.81%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (13.56%) AWS
3 8 (13.56%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.08%) GCP
4 3 (5.08%) SaaS
4 3 (5.08%) Serverless
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (3.39%) Google App Engine
5 2 (3.39%) Route 53
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) DNS
1 10 (16.95%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.08%) DHCP
4 2 (3.39%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.39%) Network Security
4 2 (3.39%) SSL
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.69%) OSPF
5 1 (1.69%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.69%) VLAN
5 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.69%) MySQL
4 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) AppScan
1 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.69%) Git
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
1 1 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 20 (33.90%) Finance
2 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Front Office
6 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Advertising
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Publishing
7 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Analyst
2 11 (18.64%) Security Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Security Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Unix Specialist
6 4 (6.78%) Vulnerability Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) IT Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) IT Security Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Lead Security Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Linux Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) EDI
2 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Management Information System
1 8 (13.56%) Security Posture
2 7 (11.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.47%) Cyberattack
4 5 (8.47%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.39%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.59%) Windows
2 14 (23.73%) Unix
3 9 (15.25%) Windows 10
4 8 (13.56%) Linux
4 8 (13.56%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Vulnerability Management
2 14 (23.73%) Information Security
3 10 (16.95%) Computer Science
3 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (16.95%) Security Patching
4 9 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (15.25%) ITIL
4 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.25%) Security Operations
5 8 (13.56%) Incident Response
5 8 (13.56%) Migration
5 8 (13.56%) Mobile Device Management
5 8 (13.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 7 (11.86%) DDoS Mitigation
6 7 (11.86%) DevOps
6 7 (11.86%) Remediation Plan
6 7 (11.86%) SIEM
6 7 (11.86%) Threat Intelligence
7 6 (10.17%) Capacity Management
7 6 (10.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.12%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.08%) Python
2 3 (5.08%) VB.NET
3 2 (3.39%) C++
3 2 (3.39%) Java
3 2 (3.39%) VBScript
4 1 (1.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Degree
2 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.78%) CISSP
4 3 (5.08%) CISM
4 3 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.39%) CISA
5 2 (3.39%) CSSLP
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.69%) CEH
6 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) SLA
2 3 (5.08%) ISO 9001
2 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (3.39%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.69%) COBIT
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (30.51%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.78%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.08%) vSphere
5 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) SCCM
2 6 (10.17%) Ansible
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (8.47%) Progress Chef
3 5 (8.47%) Puppet
4 3 (5.08%) WSUS
5 2 (3.39%) Salt
5 2 (3.39%) Terraform
6 1 (1.69%) CASB
6 1 (1.69%) Grafana
6 1 (1.69%) Graylog
6 1 (1.69%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.69%) Nagios
6 1 (1.69%) Nessus
6 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.69%) SCOM
6 1 (1.69%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.69%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft
2 18 (30.51%) Qualys
3 13 (22.03%) VMware
4 7 (11.86%) CA
5 5 (8.47%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (8.47%) Oracle
6 4 (6.78%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.08%) Checkmarx
8 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.39%) SaltStack
9 1 (1.69%) Cisco
9 1 (1.69%) F5
9 1 (1.69%) Informatica
9 1 (1.69%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.69%) Splunk
9 1 (1.69%) Veracode