Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in London

Vulnerability Remediation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 361 434
Rank change year-on-year +69 +73 +120
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 72 34 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.23% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 24 46
10th Percentile £413 £440 £450
25th Percentile £521 £512 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% +8.73% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £600
90th Percentile £800 £725 £748
England median daily rate £550 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -0.63% +0.64% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Vulnerability Remediation 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 12,493 14,988 22,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.10% 88.70% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,356 10,654 16,457
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 247 251
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.24 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.05 £23.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.55 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -19.16% +16.90%
75th Percentile £49.88 £51.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.25 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in London

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in London

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in London over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in London

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in London

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the London region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
East London +17 6 £585 +8.33% 1
Central London +3 4 £543 -15.89% 2
West London 0 1 £400 -
Vulnerability Remediation
England

Vulnerability Remediation
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 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) Azure
2 22 (30.56%) AWS
3 15 (20.83%) GCP
4 12 (16.67%) GitHub
5 7 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.94%) Mimecast
6 5 (6.94%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (5.56%) SaaS
8 3 (4.17%) IaaS
8 3 (4.17%) PaaS
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.39%) Cloud Run
10 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.39%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.44%) Firewall
2 4 (5.56%) DNS
2 4 (5.56%) Network Security
3 3 (4.17%) DHCP
3 3 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.17%) VLAN
3 3 (4.17%) WAN
4 2 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.39%) HTTP
5 1 (1.39%) IPsec
5 1 (1.39%) SSL
5 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.39%) Redis
3 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Burp Suite
2 12 (16.67%) Metasploit
2 12 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.39%) git-flow
General
1 27 (37.50%) Finance
2 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.72%) Banking
5 4 (5.56%) Legal
6 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Marketing
6 2 (2.78%) Military
6 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Front Office
7 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Security Engineer
2 16 (22.22%) Penetration Tester
2 16 (22.22%) Tester
3 15 (20.83%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) Architect
4 9 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 9 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (9.72%) Lead
6 6 (8.33%) Consultant
6 6 (8.33%) IT Architect
6 6 (8.33%) IT Security Architect
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Architect
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
7 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
8 2 (2.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.78%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
8 2 (2.78%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) .NET
1 2 (2.78%) .NET Core
1 2 (2.78%) React
1 2 (2.78%) SOAP
2 1 (1.39%) LDAP
2 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 5 (6.94%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) PKI
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.39%) Clustering
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.00%) Windows
2 9 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.72%) Linux
4 2 (2.78%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.78%) Unix
4 2 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.39%) CentOS
5 1 (1.39%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) Penetration Testing
2 28 (38.89%) Cloud Security
3 25 (34.72%) Vulnerability Management
4 20 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 20 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (26.39%) DevSecOps
5 19 (26.39%) Threat Modelling
6 17 (23.61%) SDLC
6 17 (23.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (23.61%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 16 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (19.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 14 (19.44%) Ethical Hacking
8 14 (19.44%) Static Application Security Testing
9 13 (18.06%) Incident Response
9 13 (18.06%) OWASP
9 13 (18.06%) Secure Coding
9 13 (18.06%) Security Testing
10 12 (16.67%) Application Security
11 11 (15.28%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.00%) Python
2 14 (19.44%) Bash
3 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.78%) C#
4 2 (2.78%) Java
4 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.78%) SQL
5 1 (1.39%) Go
5 1 (1.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.06%) CREST Certified
2 13 (18.06%) OSCP
3 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.67%) Tigerscheme
4 9 (12.50%) CHECK Team Member
5 6 (8.33%) Degree
6 5 (6.94%) CISSP
7 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (4.17%) PMP
9 2 (2.78%) CISM
9 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (1.39%) MCSA
10 1 (1.39%) MCSE
10 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (13.89%) NCSC
3 8 (11.11%) NIST
4 7 (9.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (9.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (5.56%) GDPR
6 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.78%) GRC
7 2 (2.78%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.78%) SLA
8 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (16.67%) Nmap
2 10 (13.89%) SCCM
3 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (6.94%) Terraform
5 4 (5.56%) Nessus
6 2 (2.78%) WSUS
7 1 (1.39%) Ansible
7 1 (1.39%) CASB
7 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.67%) Veracode
3 9 (12.50%) Tenable
4 6 (8.33%) Qualys
5 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.78%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.78%) Remedy
6 2 (2.78%) Tripwire
7 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco
7 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.39%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle
7 1 (1.39%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.39%) Splunk
7 1 (1.39%) Sun
7 1 (1.39%) Sybase
7 1 (1.39%) Tanium