Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in England

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning 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 417 470 577
Rank change year-on-year +53 +107 +55
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 68 72 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 42
10th Percentile £384 £405 £397
25th Percentile £466 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £560 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% -1.32% +13.50%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £785 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +15.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Scanning 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 Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning 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 +28 31 £588 -2.08% 40
North of England +34 16 £510 - 12
North West +29 13 £505 - 1
South West +42 9 £400 -23.81% 5
South East +50 7 £600 +20.00% 23
Yorkshire - 2 - - 11
Midlands +20 1 - - 9
West Midlands +12 1 - - 8
North East - 1 £550 -
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
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 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.94%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.76%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) AWS
3 17 (25.00%) IaaS
4 14 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (17.65%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.82%) GCP
6 6 (8.82%) PaaS
6 6 (8.82%) SaaS
7 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) Serverless
8 3 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.94%) GitHub
9 2 (2.94%) OCI
10 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (42.65%) Firewall
2 24 (35.29%) Network Security
3 12 (17.65%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (8.82%) DNS
4 6 (8.82%) VPN
5 4 (5.88%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.41%) DHCP
6 3 (4.41%) HTTP
6 3 (4.41%) IPsec
6 3 (4.41%) SSL
7 1 (1.47%) VSAN
7 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.82%) GitLab
3 2 (2.94%) Git
3 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.47%) JIRA
4 1 (1.47%) Snyk
General
1 14 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Telecoms
3 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.35%) Legal
5 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.94%) Aviation
5 2 (2.94%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (2.94%) Police
5 2 (2.94%) Swedish Language
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (17.65%) Analyst
1 12 (17.65%) Security Engineer
2 10 (14.71%) Senior
3 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (7.35%) Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) Security Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) Senior Tester
4 5 (7.35%) Tester
5 4 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.41%) DevOps Administrator
6 3 (4.41%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 3 (4.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 3 (4.41%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) HTML
2 5 (7.35%) CSS
3 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.47%) Ajax
4 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.47%) OAuth
4 1 (1.47%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.47%) OpenID
4 1 (1.47%) SOAP
4 1 (1.47%) Web Services
4 1 (1.47%) WebAuthn
4 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (7.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (5.88%) PKI
2 4 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.94%) NHS
4 2 (2.94%) Robotics
5 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) CMDB
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) PMI
5 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Windows
2 13 (19.12%) Windows Server
3 9 (13.24%) Linux
4 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (27.94%) Incident Response
3 18 (26.47%) Information Security
3 18 (26.47%) Risk Assessment
4 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 16 (23.53%) Penetration Testing
6 14 (20.59%) Cloud Security
6 14 (20.59%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 13 (19.12%) SIEM
8 12 (17.65%) Business Continuity
8 12 (17.65%) CI/CD
8 12 (17.65%) High Availability
9 11 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (16.18%) DevOps
9 11 (16.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (14.71%) Change Management
11 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (13.24%) Task Automation
12 8 (11.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.82%) Python
2 16 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 12 (17.65%) Bash
4 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.35%) PHP
5 5 (7.35%) Ruby
5 5 (7.35%) SQL
6 4 (5.88%) Java
7 3 (4.41%) Perl
8 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.59%) Degree
4 13 (19.12%) CEH
5 12 (17.65%) CISSP
6 11 (16.18%) Azure Certification
7 10 (14.71%) CISM
7 10 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (10.29%) GIAC
9 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
10 5 (7.35%) CCSAS
10 5 (7.35%) CREST Certified
10 5 (7.35%) GPEN
10 5 (7.35%) GWAPT
10 5 (7.35%) OSCP
11 4 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (4.41%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (2.94%) CISA
14 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
14 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.59%) NIST
2 9 (13.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (10.29%) PCI DSS
4 6 (8.82%) GDPR
5 5 (7.35%) HIPAA
6 3 (4.41%) SOC 2
7 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.65%) vSphere
3 10 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (10.29%) Docker
5 6 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.24%) Terraform
3 8 (11.76%) Grafana
4 7 (10.29%) Ansible
4 7 (10.29%) Nessus
5 6 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.35%) SCCM
7 4 (5.88%) WSUS
8 3 (4.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.47%) HP Fortify
10 1 (1.47%) Packer
10 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
1 16 (23.53%) VMware
2 14 (20.59%) Tenable
3 10 (14.71%) Qualys
4 4 (5.88%) ForgeRock
4 4 (5.88%) Rapid7
5 3 (4.41%) Oracle
5 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.41%) Sophos
6 2 (2.94%) Ribbon
6 2 (2.94%) Splunk
7 1 (1.47%) Dell
7 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.47%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.47%) Ping Identity