Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in London

Vulnerability Assessment
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 326 446
Rank change year-on-year +4 +120 +79
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 31 65 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.41% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 31
10th Percentile - £375 £375
25th Percentile £500 £413 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% +1.94%
75th Percentile £738 £575 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
England median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £72.40
% change year-on-year -12.15% -3.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Vulnerability Assessment 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in London.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in London.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London +13 2 - - 10
East London +13 1 - - 1
Central London -3 1 £450 -35.71% 5
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) Firewall
1 9 (29.03%) Network Security
2 3 (9.68%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (9.68%) VPN
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) DWDM
3 2 (6.45%) LAN
3 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.45%) WAN
4 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) GitLab
2 4 (12.90%) JIRA
3 3 (9.68%) Snyk
3 3 (9.68%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Police
5 1 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Consultant
2 5 (16.13%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Security Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Security Consultant
2 5 (16.13%) Security Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Information Security Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Security Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IT Architect
5 2 (6.45%) IT Security Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Lead
6 1 (3.23%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) JSON
2 2 (6.45%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) EDI
3 1 (3.23%) OAuth
3 1 (3.23%) SAML
3 1 (3.23%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Security Posture
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.23%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (35.48%) Information Security
2 9 (29.03%) Cloud Security
2 9 (29.03%) Incident Response
3 8 (25.81%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (25.81%) Risk Assessment
3 8 (25.81%) Risk Management
3 8 (25.81%) SIEM
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Secure Coding
4 7 (22.58%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
5 6 (19.35%) DevSecOps
5 6 (19.35%) Security Monitoring
5 6 (19.35%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (16.13%) OWASP
6 5 (16.13%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) Bash
3 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.68%) Perl
5 2 (6.45%) C++
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.45%) Rust
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) Degree
3 5 (16.13%) CISSP
3 5 (16.13%) SANS
3 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.45%) CCNA
5 2 (6.45%) CCNP
5 2 (6.45%) CEH
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.45%) CISM
5 2 (6.45%) JNCIA
5 2 (6.45%) JNCIS
6 1 (3.23%) PMP
6 1 (3.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) GDPR
1 9 (29.03%) NIST
2 8 (25.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (16.13%) HIPAA
4 4 (12.90%) PCI DSS
4 4 (12.90%) QA
5 3 (9.68%) NCSC
6 2 (6.45%) GRC
7 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
1 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Planview
3 3 (9.68%) Coverity
3 3 (9.68%) Veracode
4 2 (6.45%) Alibaba
4 2 (6.45%) Arista
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) Apple
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Samsung
5 1 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) VMware