Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Vulnerability Remediation
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 83 105
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +37
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 5 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.50% 0.086% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.099% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £597 - £321
25th Percentile £612 - £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.12%
75th Percentile £663 - £384
90th Percentile £708 - £394
North West median daily rate £625 £505 £606
% change year-on-year +23.76% -16.67% +51.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 894 1,015 1,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.85% 87.35% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 592 1,072
10th Percentile £306 £313 £270
25th Percentile £400 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £594 £600
90th Percentile £678 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -7.36% -2.20% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 34 60
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.94 £15.55
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.84 £16.28
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +106.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £35.50 £64.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.38 £87.45 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% +21.43% +59.09%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in Manchester

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Snyk
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) SDLC
1 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Log Correlation
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) MCSA
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) CASB
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (40.00%) Tenable
1 2 (40.00%) Veracode
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk