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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 62 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +38
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 15 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.10% 0.15% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 0.18% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 16
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 £538 - £515
90th Percentile £551 - £594
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 637 565 884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.34% 85.74% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 358 612
10th Percentile £300 £325 £314
25th Percentile £400 £405 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £655 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £517
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 7
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.54 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.00 £18.97
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +52.51% +0.28%
75th Percentile £27.63 £41.50 £22.86
90th Percentile £28.30 £61.75 £39.05
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -31.88% +56.97% -1.40%

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 13 November 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 (26.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Storage
4 3 (20.00%) OCI
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (6.67%) SCCP
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Security Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) JWT
1 4 (26.67%) OAuth
1 4 (26.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (66.67%) SIEM
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
3 6 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 5 (33.33%) SOAR
5 4 (26.67%) Application Security
5 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) Validation
6 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (20.00%) GCIA
3 3 (20.00%) GCIH
3 3 (20.00%) GIAC
3 3 (20.00%) SSCP
4 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CCSP
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (33.33%) NIST
2 5 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 3 (20.00%) NIST 800
4 2 (13.33%) GDPR
4 2 (13.33%) PSD2
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Rapid7
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) McAfee
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) VMware