Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Vulnerability Remediation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 54 68
Rank change year-on-year -17 +14 +32
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 11 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.43% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £343 £400
Median % change year-on-year +58.89% -14.25% -38.46%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £545 £343 £400
% change year-on-year +58.89% -14.25% -24.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 680 442 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.43% 89.47% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 272 518
10th Percentile £313 £273 £281
25th Percentile £411 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £687 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 10
10th Percentile - £16.15 £11.11
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.37 £11.85
Median hourly rate £15.25 £37.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -59.33% +199.28% -78.49%
75th Percentile £40.06 £41.50 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £100.39 £25.97
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £30.16 £15.12
% change year-on-year -37.42% +99.50% -56.88%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in Leeds over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in Leeds

Vulnerability Remediation
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Datadog
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Tester
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) NHS
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (27.27%) Validation
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (18.18%) Application Discovery
4 2 (18.18%) Business Case
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Key Management
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (9.09%) SOAR
5 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Bicep
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Nessus
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) CloudEndure
2 2 (18.18%) Rapid7
2 2 (18.18%) Tenable
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Progress
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk