Vulnerability Management Contracts in Manchester

Vulnerability Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 96 97
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 +36
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 6 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.67% 0.14% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.16% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £360 £491 £428
25th Percentile £413 £534 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +28.95% -12.68%
75th Percentile £619 £684 £672
90th Percentile £690 £724 £786
North West median daily rate £500 £659 £553
% change year-on-year -24.07% +19.08% +7.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 798 1,236 1,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.26% 86.92% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 843 1,200
10th Percentile £303 £325 £317
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 75 50
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.44 £16.53
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -25.71% +93.83%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.35 £73.70 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £24.19 £35.52
% change year-on-year +31.79% -31.89% +54.23%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in Manchester

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in Manchester

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in Manchester

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 1 (16.67%) Apigee
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) RBAC
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Nessus
2 1 (16.67%) OpenVAS
2 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (16.67%) Carbon Black
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk