Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in England

Vulnerability Remediation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 481 563
Rank change year-on-year +63 +82 +108
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 62 57 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 47 61
10th Percentile £303 £375 £450
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.09% +6.28%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £606
90th Percentile £800 £730 £663
UK median daily rate £543 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% +6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Remediation 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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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 +54 37 £543 -8.32% 70
North of England +22 9 £215 -74.21% 58
North West +14 7 £215 -62.08% 30
South West +43 6 £400 -33.33% 29
South East +46 5 £600 +45.45% 59
North East - 2 - - 9
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 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.61%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) Azure
2 15 (24.19%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (14.52%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (9.68%) SaaS
6 5 (8.06%) Mimecast
6 5 (8.06%) OneDrive
7 4 (6.45%) IaaS
7 4 (6.45%) PaaS
8 3 (4.84%) GCP
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Stack
9 2 (3.23%) GitHub
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.61%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.81%) Firewall
2 6 (9.68%) WAN
3 3 (4.84%) DHCP
3 3 (4.84%) DNS
3 3 (4.84%) Internet
3 3 (4.84%) iSCSI
3 3 (4.84%) LAN
3 3 (4.84%) Network Security
3 3 (4.84%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (4.84%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.84%) VLAN
3 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (4.84%) Wireless
4 2 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.23%) NAS
4 2 (3.23%) SAN
5 1 (1.61%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.61%) Power BI
4 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Snyk
2 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.61%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (35.48%) Finance
2 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Banking
3 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Legal
4 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Marketing
5 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Back Office
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Lead
2 11 (17.74%) Senior
3 10 (16.13%) Architect
3 10 (16.13%) Security Architect
4 7 (11.29%) Security Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) IT Architect
5 6 (9.68%) IT Security Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Security Architect
6 5 (8.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Lead Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Security Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.61%) CSS
2 1 (1.61%) HTML
2 1 (1.61%) Kafka
2 1 (1.61%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.84%) IVR
3 3 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.23%) PKI
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) PMI
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (38.71%) Windows
2 15 (24.19%) Windows Server
3 11 (17.74%) Linux
4 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.84%) Android
5 3 (4.84%) Unix
5 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.23%) AIX
6 2 (3.23%) CentOS
6 2 (3.23%) HPUX
6 2 (3.23%) Solaris
6 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (51.61%) Vulnerability Management
2 18 (29.03%) Incident Response
3 17 (27.42%) Cloud Security
4 15 (24.19%) Patch Management
5 14 (22.58%) Agile
5 14 (22.58%) SIEM
6 13 (20.97%) Penetration Testing
7 12 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (17.74%) ITIL
8 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.74%) Threat Modelling
9 10 (16.13%) Security Architecture
10 9 (14.52%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 8 (12.90%) DevSecOps
11 8 (12.90%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 7 (11.29%) Business Continuity
12 7 (11.29%) Information Security
12 7 (11.29%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.29%) Python
2 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.45%) SQL
4 3 (4.84%) Bash
5 2 (3.23%) Perl
5 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.61%) PHP
6 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Degree
4 6 (9.68%) CISSP
5 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.45%) PMP
6 3 (4.84%) CISM
7 2 (3.23%) CEH
7 2 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.23%) CREST Certified
7 2 (3.23%) GIAC
7 2 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (3.23%) OSCP
7 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.61%) CCSAS
8 1 (1.61%) CISA
8 1 (1.61%) GPEN
8 1 (1.61%) GWAPT
8 1 (1.61%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (12.90%) NIST
3 5 (8.06%) GDPR
3 5 (8.06%) SLA
4 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.23%) GRC
5 2 (3.23%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (3.23%) NCSC
6 1 (1.61%) QA
6 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (17.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Docker
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.23%) KVM
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) SCCM
2 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (9.68%) Nessus
4 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.45%) WSUS
6 2 (3.23%) Ansible
6 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.23%) Puppet
6 2 (3.23%) Terraform
7 1 (1.61%) Argo
7 1 (1.61%) Istio
Vendors
1 25 (40.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) Qualys
3 9 (14.52%) Tenable
4 3 (4.84%) Apple
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 3 (4.84%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.23%) Rapid7
5 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) Tripwire
5 2 (3.23%) VMware
6 1 (1.61%) BMC
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) New Relic
6 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) Sybase
6 1 (1.61%) Veracode