Vulnerability Scanning Contract Job Trends in London

Vulnerability Scanning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 339 363
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 +151
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 47 42 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 34
10th Percentile £401 £432 £474
25th Percentile £459 £511 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -2.92% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £759 £650
90th Percentile £653 £780 £754
England median daily rate £538 £579 £570
% change year-on-year -7.13% +1.54% -2.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Vulnerability Scanning 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 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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 0 8 £525 -25.93% 3
West London - 1 £350 - 2
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) Azure
2 20 (42.55%) AWS
3 11 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (17.02%) GCP
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.64%) GitHub
5 5 (10.64%) Serverless
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.04%) Firewall
2 14 (29.79%) Network Security
3 12 (25.53%) DNS
4 10 (21.28%) TCP/IP
5 6 (12.77%) DHCP
6 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (4.26%) SSL
6 2 (4.26%) VPN
7 1 (2.13%) DMZ
7 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.13%) SSH
7 1 (2.13%) Telnet
7 1 (2.13%) VLAN
7 1 (2.13%) WAN
7 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) GitLab
1 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.38%) Terragrunt
2 2 (4.26%) JIRA
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Military
4 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Security Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Architect
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Architect
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Consultant
5 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) IT Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Security Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Vulnerability Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.26%) LDAP
3 1 (2.13%) .NET
3 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.13%) JWT
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
3 1 (2.13%) OAuth
3 1 (2.13%) React
3 1 (2.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.13%) CMDB
6 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) IoT
6 1 (2.13%) MISP
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) PKI
6 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Windows
2 4 (8.51%) Linux
3 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
3 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.13%) CentOS
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) SIEM
2 17 (36.17%) Cloud Security
2 17 (36.17%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (34.04%) Incident Response
4 15 (31.91%) Patch Management
5 14 (29.79%) Information Security
5 14 (29.79%) Security Operations
6 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
7 12 (25.53%) Threat Modelling
7 12 (25.53%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (23.40%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 9 (19.15%) DevOps
10 8 (17.02%) Analytics
10 8 (17.02%) Data Security
10 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (17.02%) Security Architecture
11 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.89%) Threat Detection
12 6 (12.77%) DevSecOps
12 6 (12.77%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
1 8 (17.02%) Python
2 6 (12.77%) Bash
3 1 (2.13%) Bicep
3 1 (2.13%) C#
3 1 (2.13%) Go
3 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) CISSP
3 10 (21.28%) CISM
4 9 (19.15%) CompTIA Security+
5 8 (17.02%) CEH
6 7 (14.89%) DV Cleared
7 6 (12.77%) GIAC
7 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
8 4 (8.51%) Degree
9 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
10 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (4.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (2.13%) CCNP
11 1 (2.13%) CCSP
11 1 (2.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (2.13%) MCSE
11 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (2.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (19.15%) NIST
3 5 (10.64%) GDPR
4 3 (6.38%) NCSC
4 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (2.13%) GRC
5 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
1 7 (14.89%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (17.02%) SCCM
3 7 (14.89%) Terraform
4 6 (12.77%) Ansible
4 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
4 6 (12.77%) Nessus
4 6 (12.77%) WSUS
5 3 (6.38%) Kibana
6 2 (4.26%) Karpenter
6 2 (4.26%) Nexpose
6 2 (4.26%) QRadar
7 1 (2.13%) CASB
7 1 (2.13%) Grafana
7 1 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Tenable
2 10 (21.28%) Splunk
3 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
4 7 (14.89%) Qualys
4 7 (14.89%) Sophos
5 4 (8.51%) Rapid7
5 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco
6 2 (4.26%) CyberArk
6 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.26%) Google
6 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.26%) Remedy
7 1 (2.13%) Carbon Black
7 1 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.13%) Tanium
7 1 (2.13%) Varonis
7 1 (2.13%) VMware