Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in London

Vulnerability Scanning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 351 437
Rank change year-on-year +19 +86 +117
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 29 48 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.32% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 29
10th Percentile £403 £408 £450
25th Percentile £472 £434 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -4.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £740
90th Percentile £716 £676 £798
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

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 12,568 15,106 22,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.09% 88.72% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,416 10,742 16,462
10th Percentile £331 £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 £675 £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 236 254 247
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.99 £23.88
Median hourly rate £30.40 £33.53 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% -19.22% +16.90%
75th Percentile £50.13 £51.50 £65.05
90th Percentile £63.50 £70.73 £82.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +63.46%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in London

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 20 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
Central London -4 7 £542 +8.62% 1
West London -2 1 £350 +7.69%
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.34%) Serverless
4 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.45%) IaaS
6 1 (3.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) Network Security
3 4 (13.79%) SSL
3 4 (13.79%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.45%) DMZ
5 1 (3.45%) DNS
5 1 (3.45%) HTTP
5 1 (3.45%) IPsec
5 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.45%) SSH
5 1 (3.45%) Telnet
5 1 (3.45%) VLAN
5 1 (3.45%) WAN
5 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) GitLab
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Architect
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Management Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Security Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.45%) LDAP
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.45%) OpenID
2 1 (3.45%) React
2 1 (3.45%) SOAP
2 1 (3.45%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) PKI
2 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
1 4 (13.79%) Mac OS
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.45%) CentOS
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Cloud Security
2 10 (34.48%) Incident Response
3 9 (31.03%) Vulnerability Management
4 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) DevOps
6 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
7 5 (17.24%) Agile
7 5 (17.24%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (17.24%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (13.79%) Zero Trust
9 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
9 3 (10.34%) Identity Management
9 3 (10.34%) Microservices
9 3 (10.34%) Patch Management
9 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) Bash
3 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) CISSP
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) CISM
2 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (10.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (6.90%) CEH
5 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.45%) CASP
6 1 (3.45%) CCNP
6 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) GCIA
6 1 (3.45%) GCIH
6 1 (3.45%) GIAC
6 1 (3.45%) MCSA
6 1 (3.45%) MCSE
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (24.14%) NIST
3 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
4 3 (10.34%) GDPR
4 3 (10.34%) NCSC
4 3 (10.34%) RMADS
4 3 (10.34%) SOC 2
5 2 (6.90%) HIPAA
5 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (3.45%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (3.45%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Nessus
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.90%) SCCM
4 1 (3.45%) CASB
4 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.45%) QRadar
4 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Qualys
2 10 (34.48%) Tenable
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.90%) ForgeRock
4 2 (6.90%) Rapid7
4 2 (6.90%) Remedy
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.45%) Kaseya
5 1 (3.45%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Ping Identity
5 1 (3.45%) Tanium
5 1 (3.45%) Veeam