Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in London

Vulnerability Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 261 244
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 +64
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 133 111 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 0.75% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.83% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 81 126
10th Percentile £417 £460 £438
25th Percentile £475 £510 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £779 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £558 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% -7.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £38.15 - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - £25.75
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £26.50
75th Percentile £62.75 - £27.25
90th Percentile £63.05 - -
England median hourly rate £49.73 £53.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year -7.48% +9.69% -24.90%

All Process & 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 13,097 13,344 16,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.12% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,632 8,554 11,793
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.16 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +12.31% -16.13%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in London

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in London over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in London

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Management in London over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 28 December 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 -8 10 £625 +4.17% 32
West London -12 6 £549 -12.20% 3
South London - 5 £525 - 2
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
2 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) nginx
3 1 (0.75%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (37.59%) Azure
2 47 (35.34%) AWS
3 17 (12.78%) GCP
3 17 (12.78%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (9.77%) Entra ID
5 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (3.76%) IaaS
6 5 (3.76%) Serverless
7 4 (3.01%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (3.01%) SaaS
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.26%) PaaS
8 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.50%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.54%) Firewall
2 18 (13.53%) Network Security
3 9 (6.77%) DNS
4 6 (4.51%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.51%) VPN
5 4 (3.01%) SSL
5 4 (3.01%) WAN
6 3 (2.26%) HTTP
6 3 (2.26%) LAN
6 3 (2.26%) SMTP
6 3 (2.26%) Wireless
7 2 (1.50%) MPLS
7 2 (1.50%) S/MIME
7 2 (1.50%) SAN
7 2 (1.50%) WLAN
8 1 (0.75%) DHCP
8 1 (0.75%) Internet
8 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.75%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.26%) Power BI
2 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.75%) DB2
3 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (9.02%) JIRA
2 2 (1.50%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.75%) Snyk
General
1 37 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.32%) Finance
3 23 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.04%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.77%) Banking
6 8 (6.02%) Legal
7 7 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Military
9 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.50%) Retail
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Front Office
11 1 (0.75%) Games
11 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (18.80%) Security Engineer
2 21 (15.79%) Analyst
3 19 (14.29%) Architect
4 18 (13.53%) Senior
5 17 (12.78%) Security Architect
6 14 (10.53%) Consultant
7 12 (9.02%) Security Analyst
8 11 (8.27%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (7.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 6 (4.51%) Lead
11 6 (4.51%) Mac Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Security Analyst
12 5 (3.76%) Security Manager
12 5 (3.76%) Support Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Business Analyst
13 4 (3.01%) Senior Mac Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) OAuth
1 6 (4.51%) OpenID
1 6 (4.51%) SAML
2 2 (1.50%) .NET
2 2 (1.50%) EDI
2 2 (1.50%) LDAP
2 2 (1.50%) Middleware
2 2 (1.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.75%) CSS
3 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.75%) Fluent Bit
3 1 (0.75%) Kafka
3 1 (0.75%) Loki
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.75%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.75%) SOAP
3 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.75%) Web Services
3 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Security Posture
2 10 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.51%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.51%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.51%) PKI
4 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.76%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.01%) BYOD
5 4 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.50%) CMDB
7 2 (1.50%) CSOC
7 2 (1.50%) Life Science
7 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.04%) Windows
2 10 (7.52%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Mac OS
3 8 (6.02%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.51%) Unix
5 2 (1.50%) VMS
5 2 (1.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.75%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.75%) CentOS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.86%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (36.84%) Incident Response
3 41 (30.83%) Cloud Security
4 34 (25.56%) SIEM
5 24 (18.05%) CI/CD
5 24 (18.05%) Identity Access Management
6 23 (17.29%) Security Operations
7 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (16.54%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 21 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
9 20 (15.04%) Agile
9 20 (15.04%) DevSecOps
10 19 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 18 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (13.53%) Data Protection
12 16 (12.03%) Computer Science
12 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (11.28%) DevOps
13 15 (11.28%) Threat Modelling
14 14 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.29%) Python
2 17 (12.78%) Bash
2 17 (12.78%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.02%) SQL
4 6 (4.51%) Java
5 5 (3.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.50%) Go
6 2 (1.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.75%) Bicep
7 1 (0.75%) Ruby
7 1 (0.75%) Scala
7 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 29 (21.80%) CISSP
4 19 (14.29%) Degree
5 13 (9.77%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (9.02%) CEH
7 9 (6.77%) CISM
7 9 (6.77%) OSCP
8 8 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (5.26%) CCSP
9 7 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (4.51%) CREST Certified
10 6 (4.51%) GCIH
10 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
12 4 (3.01%) CISA
12 4 (3.01%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
12 4 (3.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.31%) NIST
2 28 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.52%) GDPR
4 7 (5.26%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.51%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.76%) GRC
7 4 (3.01%) COBIT
7 4 (3.01%) NCSC
7 4 (3.01%) SLA
8 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (2.26%) ITGC
9 2 (1.50%) GxP
9 2 (1.50%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.50%) QA
9 2 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 13 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.77%) Docker
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.52%) Nessus
3 8 (6.02%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (6.02%) SCCM
4 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.51%) Terraform
5 4 (3.01%) Ansible
5 4 (3.01%) CASB
6 3 (2.26%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.50%) Grafana
7 2 (1.50%) Nexpose
7 2 (1.50%) SCOrch
7 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) Argo
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.75%) Istio
8 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.75%) SCOM
8 1 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.79%) Tenable
3 15 (11.28%) Splunk
4 14 (10.53%) Qualys
5 12 (9.02%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (7.52%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.02%) Google
7 8 (6.02%) Rapid7
8 7 (5.26%) Apple
9 6 (4.51%) Palo Alto
9 6 (4.51%) VMware
10 4 (3.01%) CyberArk
10 4 (3.01%) Remedy
11 3 (2.26%) Darktrace
12 2 (1.50%) BMC
12 2 (1.50%) Cisco
12 2 (1.50%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.50%) Oracle
12 2 (1.50%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.75%) Red Hat