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

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 454 564
Rank change year-on-year +52 +110 +57
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 69 83 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 59 39
10th Percentile £443 £410 £385
25th Percentile £481 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £613
90th Percentile £720 £778 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -7.06% +0.09% +3.02%
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 21,908 31,369 43,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.13% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,318 20,561 30,212
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £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 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,271 1,523
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

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 24 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 24 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 +44 28 £575 -4.17% 76
North of England +30 19 £510 +4.62% 53
North West +22 14 £510 +4.62% 26
South East +48 8 £575 +24.32% 70
South West +34 8 £485 -8.49% 23
Yorkshire - 4 £500 - 22
West Midlands +12 2 - - 23
Midlands +9 2 - - 38
North East - 1 £550 - 5
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 (15.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.90%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.68%) Azure
2 20 (28.99%) AWS
3 13 (18.84%) IaaS
3 13 (18.84%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 8 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (8.70%) GCP
6 6 (8.70%) GitHub
7 5 (7.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.25%) Serverless
7 5 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.35%) SaaS
10 2 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (44.93%) Firewall
2 29 (42.03%) Network Security
3 11 (15.94%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (11.59%) VPN
5 7 (10.14%) DNS
6 5 (7.25%) SSL
6 5 (7.25%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.35%) HTTP
7 3 (4.35%) IPsec
8 2 (2.90%) DHCP
9 1 (1.45%) VSAN
9 1 (1.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.04%) GitLab
3 4 (5.80%) Git
3 4 (5.80%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.90%) Snyk
5 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.94%) Telecoms
3 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.90%) Aviation
5 2 (2.90%) Finance
5 2 (2.90%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (2.90%) Legal
5 2 (2.90%) Police
5 2 (2.90%) Swedish Language
6 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Security Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Analyst
3 7 (10.14%) Architect
3 7 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 6 (8.70%) Senior
5 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) Security Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.35%) DevOps Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.90%) HTML
3 1 (1.45%) Ajax
3 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.45%) CSS
3 1 (1.45%) OAuth
3 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.45%) OpenID
3 1 (1.45%) Playwright
3 1 (1.45%) SOAP
3 1 (1.45%) Web Services
3 1 (1.45%) WebAuthn
3 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Security Posture
2 4 (5.80%) PKI
3 3 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.90%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.90%) NHS
4 2 (2.90%) Robotics
5 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.45%) CMDB
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.45%) PMI
5 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.09%) Windows
2 14 (20.29%) Windows Server
3 10 (14.49%) Linux
4 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.23%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (31.88%) Incident Response
3 19 (27.54%) Cloud Security
4 18 (26.09%) Risk Assessment
4 18 (26.09%) Vulnerability Management
5 17 (24.64%) SIEM
6 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
6 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (21.74%) Penetration Testing
8 14 (20.29%) Information Security
9 13 (18.84%) DevOps
9 13 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (17.39%) Business Continuity
10 12 (17.39%) High Availability
11 11 (15.94%) Change Management
11 11 (15.94%) Containerisation
11 11 (15.94%) DevSecOps
11 11 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (13.04%) Patch Management
12 9 (13.04%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.33%) Python
2 18 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 14 (20.29%) Bash
4 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.80%) Java
6 3 (4.35%) Perl
6 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.45%) Groovy
7 1 (1.45%) PHP
7 1 (1.45%) Ruby
7 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.39%) CISSP
4 11 (15.94%) Azure Certification
5 10 (14.49%) CISM
5 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (13.04%) Degree
7 8 (11.59%) CEH
8 6 (8.70%) DV Cleared
9 4 (5.80%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (4.35%) GIAC
11 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.90%) CISA
11 2 (2.90%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (1.45%) CASP
12 1 (1.45%) CCSAS
12 1 (1.45%) CREST Certified
12 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.64%) NIST
2 12 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (15.94%) GDPR
4 10 (14.49%) PCI DSS
5 8 (11.59%) HIPAA
6 5 (7.25%) SOC 2
7 2 (2.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.90%) NCSC
8 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 15 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.39%) vSphere
3 11 (15.94%) Docker
4 10 (14.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.84%) Terraform
3 11 (15.94%) Ansible
3 11 (15.94%) Grafana
4 9 (13.04%) Nessus
4 9 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.80%) SCCM
5 4 (5.80%) WSUS
6 3 (4.35%) HP Fortify
6 3 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.90%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.90%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.90%) Puppet
8 1 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.45%) Packer
8 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (28.99%) Microsoft
2 16 (23.19%) VMware
3 15 (21.74%) Qualys
4 11 (15.94%) Tenable
5 4 (5.80%) ForgeRock
5 4 (5.80%) Splunk
6 3 (4.35%) Oracle
6 3 (4.35%) Rapid7
6 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.90%) Ribbon
7 2 (2.90%) Sophos
8 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.45%) Dell
8 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.45%) Kaseya
8 1 (1.45%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.45%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.45%) Veeam