Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Vulnerability Management
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 58 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +35
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 16 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.18% 0.33% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 0.38% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 12
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -30.07%
75th Percentile £535 - £578
90th Percentile £550 - £599
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -30.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Vulnerability Management 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 645 524 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.76% 86.61% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 332 547
10th Percentile £304 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -9.05% -
75th Percentile £573 £574 £613
90th Percentile £645 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £15.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.38 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.18 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in Leeds

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in Leeds

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Storage
4 3 (18.75%) OCI
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Apigee
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (6.25%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Security Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) JWT
1 5 (31.25%) OAuth
2 4 (25.00%) SAML
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (62.50%) SIEM
2 8 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
4 5 (31.25%) SOAR
5 4 (25.00%) Application Security
5 4 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) Validation
5 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
6 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (18.75%) GCIA
3 3 (18.75%) GCIH
3 3 (18.75%) GIAC
3 3 (18.75%) SSCP
4 2 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (12.50%) CCSP
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 5 (31.25%) PCI DSS
3 3 (18.75%) NIST 800
4 2 (12.50%) GDPR
4 2 (12.50%) PSD2
5 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Rapid7
2 4 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Citrix
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) McAfee
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) VMware