Vulnerability Management Contracts in London

Vulnerability Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management 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 243 244 305
Rank change year-on-year +1 +61 +104
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 110 149 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.84% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.94% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 109 129
10th Percentile £378 £400 £450
25th Percentile £489 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £808 £775 £775
England median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 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%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in London

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in London

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in London

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in London

Vulnerability Management
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 Management 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
Central London +7 14 £600 -9.43% 12
West London +15 5 £525 +23.53% 4
East London +7 4 £523 +18.75%
South London - 3 £563 - 1
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.91%) Apache
1 1 (0.91%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.64%) Azure
2 19 (17.27%) AWS
3 15 (13.64%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.55%) AWS KMS
6 5 (4.55%) GCP
6 5 (4.55%) SaaS
6 5 (4.55%) Serverless
7 4 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (3.64%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (3.64%) IaaS
7 4 (3.64%) PaaS
8 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 23 (20.91%) Firewall
1 23 (20.91%) Network Security
2 5 (4.55%) VPN
3 4 (3.64%) WAN
4 3 (2.73%) HTTP
4 3 (2.73%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (2.73%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.91%) DNS
6 1 (0.91%) NAS
6 1 (0.91%) SAN
6 1 (0.91%) SMTP
6 1 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.91%) MySQL
1 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
1 1 (0.91%) GitLab
1 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.91%) Snyk
General
1 38 (34.55%) Finance
2 26 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.91%) Banking
5 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.45%) Legal
7 4 (3.64%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.64%) Law
8 3 (2.73%) French Language
8 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Back Office
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Local Government
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Military
10 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (22.73%) Architect
2 22 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 16 (14.55%) Security Engineer
4 12 (10.91%) Senior
5 11 (10.00%) Lead
5 11 (10.00%) Security Manager
6 9 (8.18%) Analyst
7 7 (6.36%) Senior Architect
7 7 (6.36%) Senior Security Architect
8 6 (5.45%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) IT Architect
9 5 (4.55%) IT Security Architect
9 5 (4.55%) IT Security Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Operational Security Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Operations Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Security Operations Manager
10 4 (3.64%) Security Specialist
10 4 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.64%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.82%) .NET
1 2 (1.82%) Node.js
1 2 (1.82%) React
2 1 (0.91%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.91%) Kafka
2 1 (0.91%) Keycloak
2 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.09%) Security Posture
2 13 (11.82%) Management Information System
3 10 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (7.27%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.73%) Insider Threat
6 3 (2.73%) PKI
7 2 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.82%) Shadow IT
8 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.91%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.91%) CSOC
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.91%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.91%) NHS
8 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.91%) Windows
2 8 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.36%) Linux
4 1 (0.91%) Android
4 1 (0.91%) Unix
4 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.09%) Incident Response
2 42 (38.18%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (38.18%) SIEM
3 37 (33.64%) Cloud Security
4 32 (29.09%) Security Operations
5 25 (22.73%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 24 (21.82%) Threat Intelligence
7 22 (20.00%) Information Security
7 22 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
7 22 (20.00%) Security Architecture
8 21 (19.09%) Data Loss Prevention
9 18 (16.36%) Risk Management
10 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 14 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (12.73%) Security Monitoring
12 14 (12.73%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 12 (10.91%) SOAR
13 12 (10.91%) Threat Detection
14 11 (10.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.73%) PowerShell
1 14 (12.73%) Python
2 5 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (3.64%) Bash
4 2 (1.82%) Java
4 2 (1.82%) PHP
4 2 (1.82%) SQL
4 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.91%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 30 (27.27%) CISSP
2 25 (22.73%) SC Cleared
2 25 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 12 (10.91%) CISM
4 11 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 10 (9.09%) GCIH
6 9 (8.18%) Degree
7 8 (7.27%) CCSP
8 6 (5.45%) AWS Certification
8 6 (5.45%) CEH
8 6 (5.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (3.64%) CESG Certified Professional
9 4 (3.64%) GIAC
9 4 (3.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.73%) GCFA
10 3 (2.73%) GCIA
10 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (21.82%) NIST
3 11 (10.00%) GDPR
4 9 (8.18%) SLA
5 4 (3.64%) GRC
5 4 (3.64%) HIPAA
5 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (3.64%) NCSC
5 4 (3.64%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.91%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.91%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.91%) QA
7 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.82%) Docker
4 1 (0.91%) Firmware
4 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Terraform
2 7 (6.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.73%) Nessus
4 3 (2.73%) QRadar
4 3 (2.73%) SCCM
5 2 (1.82%) CASB
5 2 (1.82%) Grafana
5 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.91%) Ansible
6 1 (0.91%) Argo
6 1 (0.91%) Cilium
6 1 (0.91%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.91%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.91%) logstash
6 1 (0.91%) Puppet
6 1 (0.91%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (29.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.82%) Qualys
3 7 (6.36%) Cisco
4 6 (5.45%) Google
4 6 (5.45%) Palo Alto
4 6 (5.45%) Tenable
5 5 (4.55%) Splunk
6 4 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.82%) Ariba
7 2 (1.82%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.82%) Forcepoint
7 2 (1.82%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.82%) Tripwire
8 1 (0.91%) Apple
8 1 (0.91%) Dell
8 1 (0.91%) EMC
8 1 (0.91%) IBM
8 1 (0.91%) McAfee
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle