Vulnerability Management Contracts in England

Vulnerability Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 318 466
Rank change year-on-year +34 +148 -66
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 287 388 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.78% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.86% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 285 279
10th Percentile £388 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £770 £746
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £572
% change year-on-year - -3.77% +14.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +30.95%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Management 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 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
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% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 2024.

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
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 5 May 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 +76 150 £588 +4.44% 74
South East +55 64 £450 -23.40% 30
South West +3 24 £550 +10.00% 16
Midlands +9 19 £438 -27.81% 14
West Midlands +12 17 £438 -27.08% 10
East of England +21 15 £700 +55.56% 6
North of England +1 11 £559 -7.84% 11
Yorkshire +9 7 £550 -12.00% 7
North West +6 4 £567 -6.44% 4
East Midlands +14 2 £596 -1.65% 4
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 9 (3.14%) Confluence
2 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 55 (19.16%) Azure
2 38 (13.24%) AWS
3 23 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.23%) GCP
5 14 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (3.14%) GitHub
8 8 (2.79%) SaaS
9 7 (2.44%) IaaS
9 7 (2.44%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.44%) PaaS
9 7 (2.44%) Rubrik
10 6 (2.09%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.74%) Slack
11 5 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.39%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.05%) AWS KMS
13 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 52 (18.12%) Firewall
2 32 (11.15%) DNS
3 19 (6.62%) DHCP
4 15 (5.23%) Network Security
5 13 (4.53%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.79%) VLAN
7 7 (2.44%) Kerberos
7 7 (2.44%) NAS
7 7 (2.44%) SAN
8 5 (1.74%) Internet
8 5 (1.74%) VPN
9 4 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.39%) LAN
9 4 (1.39%) WAN
10 3 (1.05%) OSPF
11 2 (0.70%) BGP
11 2 (0.70%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.70%) MPLS
11 2 (0.70%) SCCP
11 2 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.39%) Metadata
2 4 (1.39%) Power BI
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Hive
3 3 (1.05%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.70%) Big Data
4 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.70%) Bigtable
4 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.70%) HBase
4 2 (0.70%) IBM BigInsights
4 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.70%) Parquet
4 2 (0.70%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 17 (5.92%) JIRA
2 12 (4.18%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.44%) Git
3 7 (2.44%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.74%) Burp Suite
5 4 (1.39%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.70%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 69 (24.04%) Finance
2 44 (15.33%) Social Skills
3 23 (8.01%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.23%) Legal
5 14 (4.88%) Banking
5 14 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.14%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.09%) Electronics
8 6 (2.09%) Marketing
9 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.70%) Retail
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (22.65%) Analyst
2 36 (12.54%) SOC Analyst
3 32 (11.15%) Security Engineer
4 27 (9.41%) Consultant
5 22 (7.67%) Lead
6 20 (6.97%) Architect
7 18 (6.27%) Security Consultant
7 18 (6.27%) Security Manager
8 17 (5.92%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.92%) Security Architect
9 16 (5.57%) Project Manager
9 16 (5.57%) Vulnerability Specialist
10 15 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.23%) Security Specialist
11 14 (4.88%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 13 (4.53%) Security Project Manager
12 13 (4.53%) Senior
13 10 (3.48%) IT Security Specialist
13 10 (3.48%) Security Operations Specialist
14 9 (3.14%) IT Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.44%) LDAP
2 4 (1.39%) Kafka
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Avro
3 2 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.70%) EDI
3 2 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.35%) OLE
4 1 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.24%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.71%) Security Posture
3 19 (6.62%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (4.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (3.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 11 (3.83%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.48%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (3.14%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.14%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.79%) Clustering
8 8 (2.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (2.79%) Replication
9 5 (1.74%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.39%) IoT
10 4 (1.39%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.65%) Windows
2 45 (15.68%) Linux
3 41 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.57%) Unix
5 13 (4.53%) Windows 10
6 11 (3.83%) Mac OS X
6 11 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
8 7 (2.44%) Solaris
8 7 (2.44%) VMS
9 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.70%) zOS
11 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (34.15%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (33.10%) SIEM
3 70 (24.39%) Security Operations
4 67 (23.34%) Incident Response
5 63 (21.95%) Information Security
6 40 (13.94%) Risk Management
7 37 (12.89%) Data Security
8 34 (11.85%) Application Security
9 32 (11.15%) Data Loss Prevention
10 29 (10.10%) Incident Management
10 29 (10.10%) Static Application Security Testing
11 28 (9.76%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
12 24 (8.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 24 (8.36%) Threat Intelligence
12 24 (8.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 23 (8.01%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
14 22 (7.67%) DevOps
14 22 (7.67%) ITIL
14 22 (7.67%) SOAR
15 21 (7.32%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.32%) PowerShell
2 11 (3.83%) Python
3 7 (2.44%) Bash
4 4 (1.39%) Go
4 4 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.05%) SQL
6 2 (0.70%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 55 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.71%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.62%) CISSP
5 17 (5.92%) Degree
6 8 (2.79%) CISM
6 8 (2.79%) ISACA
7 6 (2.09%) GIAC
8 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) CEH
9 3 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.70%) CCSP
10 2 (0.70%) CISA
10 2 (0.70%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.35%) CCSK
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.38%) NIST
2 33 (11.50%) GDPR
2 33 (11.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.18%) HIPAA
3 12 (4.18%) PCI DSS
4 11 (3.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (3.14%) COBIT
5 9 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (2.09%) NIST 800
8 6 (2.09%) SLA
9 4 (1.39%) QA
10 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 32 (11.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.18%) XenApp
4 11 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.44%) Docker
6 4 (1.39%) Firmware
7 3 (1.05%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.35%) Snort
Systems Management
1 19 (6.62%) SCCM
2 18 (6.27%) Ansible
3 13 (4.53%) Terraform
4 10 (3.48%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.48%) Nessus
5 7 (2.44%) EMC NetWorker
5 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.44%) Netcool
5 7 (2.44%) Tivoli
5 7 (2.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.39%) Puppet
7 3 (1.05%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (1.05%) Kibana
8 2 (0.70%) Ambari
8 2 (0.70%) logstash
8 2 (0.70%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.70%) Oozie
8 2 (0.70%) Packer
8 2 (0.70%) Salt
Vendors
1 88 (30.66%) Microsoft
2 64 (22.30%) Qualys
3 46 (16.03%) VMware
4 22 (7.67%) Splunk
5 21 (7.32%) Varonis
6 16 (5.57%) Cisco
6 16 (5.57%) Forcepoint
6 16 (5.57%) LogRhythm
7 13 (4.53%) Citrix
8 11 (3.83%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.14%) CyberArk
9 9 (3.14%) IBM
10 8 (2.79%) Dell
10 8 (2.79%) Rapid7
10 8 (2.79%) Veeam
11 7 (2.44%) EMC
11 7 (2.44%) HP
11 7 (2.44%) Isilon
11 7 (2.44%) Ivanti
11 7 (2.44%) Virgin Media