Vulnerability Assessment Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Vulnerability Assessment
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 73 86
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 +31
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.52% 0.11% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.13% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -31.23% +44.44% -40.00%
75th Percentile £850 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £447 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -31.23% -7.14% +9.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Vulnerability Assessment 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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,107 746 1,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.86% 85.16% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 522 604
10th Percentile £311 £356 £333
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £512 £518
% change year-on-year -2.31% -1.19% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 43 84
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -37.16% +28.05%
75th Percentile £25.15 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £49.75 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +33.90%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in Hampshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in Hampshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Fleet - 3 £447 -
Hook - 2 £850 - 1
Vulnerability Assessment
South East

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Security Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) CentOS
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Change
2 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CEH
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 2 (28.57%) RHCE
1 2 (28.57%) RHCSA
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) KVM
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft