Vulnerability Assessment Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Vulnerability Assessment 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 148 120 113
Rank change year-on-year -28 -7 +83
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 12 2 23
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.39% 0.086% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.100% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 14
10th Percentile £478 - £453
25th Percentile £500 £763 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £638
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +21.57% +214.04%
75th Percentile - £788 £694
90th Percentile £693 - £750
England median daily rate £500 £563 £578
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.60% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -27 11 £550 -29.03% 11
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 7
Vulnerability Assessment
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (8.33%) Modbus
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) IT Security Officer
1 6 (50.00%) Security Officer
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Director
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Security Tester
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 7 (58.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 6 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (41.67%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 4 (33.33%) Threat Management
7 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) ITIL
7 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
7 3 (25.00%) SIEM
8 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
9 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
9 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
9 1 (8.33%) Remediation Plan
9 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery Management
9 1 (8.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) CRISC
2 1 (8.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (8.33%) Tenable