Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends in Inverness

Vulnerability Remediation
Highlands > Inverness

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Inverness requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Inverness 7.08% 5.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.92% 6.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £546 - -
25th Percentile £577 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.76% - -
75th Percentile £593 £438 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Highlands median daily rate £586 £425 -
% change year-on-year +37.76% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Inverness

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 Inverness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 15 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Inverness 89.38% 78.95% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 3 1
10th Percentile £427 £306 -
25th Percentile £450 £327 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £375 £110
Median % change year-on-year +31.20% +240.91% -
75th Percentile £586 £413 -
90th Percentile £700 £428 -
Highlands median daily rate £484 £375 £110
% change year-on-year +29.07% +240.91% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.45 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.52% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £16.11 - -
Highlands median hourly rate £13.45 £25.15 -
% change year-on-year -46.52% - -

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Inverness 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 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Consultant
1 7 (87.50%) Management Consultant
1 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Consultant
1 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (87.50%) Dashboard Development
1 7 (87.50%) Information Security
1 7 (87.50%) Penetration Testing
1 7 (87.50%) Performance Metrics
1 7 (87.50%) Security Testing
1 7 (87.50%) Service Management
1 7 (87.50%) SIAM
1 7 (87.50%) Validation
1 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Management
1 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
2 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) RBAC
2 1 (12.50%) Runbook
2 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Okta
1 1 (12.50%) Zscaler