Vulnerability Scanning Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Vulnerability Scanning
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £486 - -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £537 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £520 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Vulnerability Scanning 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 642 483 786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.11% 88.30% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 302 533
10th Percentile £290 £300 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -1.52%
75th Percentile £571 £575 £600
90th Percentile £639 £700 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 7
10th Percentile - £16.02 £11.11
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £11.82
Median hourly rate £15.25 £37.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -59.33% +199.28% -74.94%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £17.25
90th Percentile £33.88 £100.93 £37.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £16.11
% change year-on-year -34.46% +101.74% -32.17%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in Leeds

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) OCI
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Apigee
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (60.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) SOAR
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (60.00%) GCIA
1 3 (60.00%) GCIH
1 3 (60.00%) GIAC
1 3 (60.00%) SSCP
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) NIST 800
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk