Vulnerability Management Contracts in the Midlands

Vulnerability Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 115 135
Rank change year-on-year +17 +20 +55
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 13 18 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.65% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.79% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 20
10th Percentile £303 £388 £325
25th Percentile £324 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £588
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -25.53% +2.17%
75th Percentile £700 £567 £753
90th Percentile £738 £728 £814
England median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the Midlands

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the Midlands

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the Midlands

Vulnerability Management
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 Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +10 12 £625 +42.86% 8
East Midlands +9 1 £300 -49.66% 9
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Service Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Security Advisor
3 1 (7.69%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Security Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
1 3 (23.08%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) SCADA
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (46.15%) SIEM
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
5 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Register
6 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) CISA
2 4 (30.77%) CISSP
3 3 (23.08%) CISM
3 3 (23.08%) SANS
4 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) GIAC
4 2 (15.38%) ISACA
5 1 (7.69%) CEH
5 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Nessus
3 1 (7.69%) Podman
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Tenable
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) VMware