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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 342 420
Rank change year-on-year +46 +78 +97
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 45 54 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 38 44
10th Percentile - £375 £380
25th Percentile £500 £388 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £489 £565
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% -13.50% +9.71%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £631
90th Percentile £745 £750 £732
England median daily rate £600 £535 £580
% change year-on-year +12.15% -7.76% -3.33%

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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Vulnerability Assessment
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 29 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 29 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
Central London +3 3 £575 -17.86% 8
West London +13 2 - -
East London +18 1 - -
South London - 1 £625 - 2
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 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) Azure
2 19 (42.22%) AWS
3 13 (28.89%) GCP
4 9 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.44%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Stack
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.44%) Serverless
5 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (24.44%) Firewall
2 9 (20.00%) Network Security
3 3 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (6.67%) VPN
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.44%) DNS
4 2 (4.44%) DWDM
4 2 (4.44%) LAN
4 2 (4.44%) SSL
4 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.44%) WAN
5 1 (2.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.22%) Looker
1 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) SonarQube
2 9 (20.00%) Burp Suite
2 9 (20.00%) Metasploit
3 5 (11.11%) GitLab
4 4 (8.89%) JIRA
5 3 (6.67%) Snyk
6 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (4.44%) Police
6 1 (2.22%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Security Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Consultant
5 6 (13.33%) Security Consultant
6 4 (8.89%) Information Security Consultant
6 4 (8.89%) IT Architect
6 4 (8.89%) IT Security Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
8 2 (4.44%) Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Security Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Security Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Database Specialist
9 1 (2.22%) Deployment Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (4.44%) Node.js
3 1 (2.22%) EDI
3 1 (2.22%) OAuth
3 1 (2.22%) SAML
3 1 (2.22%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (46.67%) Penetration Testing
3 18 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 16 (35.56%) Secure Coding
4 16 (35.56%) Static Application Security Testing
5 15 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 15 (33.33%) OWASP
6 13 (28.89%) CI/CD
6 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (28.89%) SIEM
7 12 (26.67%) Incident Response
8 11 (24.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 11 (24.44%) Security Testing
8 11 (24.44%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 10 (22.22%) DevOps
9 10 (22.22%) Information Security
9 10 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
9 10 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
10 9 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
10 9 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) Python
2 18 (40.00%) Bash
3 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.67%) Perl
5 2 (4.44%) C++
5 2 (4.44%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.44%) Rust
6 1 (2.22%) C
6 1 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (24.44%) CREST Certified
4 9 (20.00%) OSCP
5 8 (17.78%) Tigerscheme
6 7 (15.56%) SANS
7 6 (13.33%) CHECK Team Member
7 6 (13.33%) Degree
8 5 (11.11%) CISSP
8 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
9 4 (8.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (6.67%) PMP
11 2 (4.44%) CCNA
11 2 (4.44%) CCNP
11 2 (4.44%) CEH
11 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (4.44%) CISM
11 2 (4.44%) GIAC
11 2 (4.44%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.89%) GDPR
2 12 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (26.67%) NIST
3 10 (22.22%) NCSC
4 8 (17.78%) HIPAA
5 7 (15.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (13.33%) PCI DSS
6 6 (13.33%) QA
7 5 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (2.22%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Nmap
2 5 (11.11%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Veracode
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Planview
4 3 (6.67%) Coverity
5 2 (4.44%) Alibaba
5 2 (4.44%) Arista
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) Apple
6 1 (2.22%) Google
6 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.22%) Samsung
6 1 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) VMware