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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 108 188
Rank change year-on-year -11 +80 -37
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 22 50 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.75% 1.55% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.78% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 40 15
10th Percentile £393 £429 £463
25th Percentile £406 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - +54.36%
75th Percentile £620 £738 £638
90th Percentile £799 £801 £680
England median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +15.00%

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 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024. 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 -6 17 £438 -23.91% 7
East Midlands +5 5 £625 +3.14% 5
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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.55%) SAN
2 1 (4.55%) SMTP
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) tcpdump
2 1 (4.55%) WAN
2 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Legal
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Analyst
2 10 (45.45%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Security Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Head of Security
5 1 (4.55%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Security Incident Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Kafka
1 1 (4.55%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Mac OS X
3 5 (22.73%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (63.64%) SIEM
3 11 (50.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 11 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 11 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 11 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 10 (45.45%) Computer Forensics
4 10 (45.45%) Incident Management
4 10 (45.45%) Purple Team
4 10 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (45.45%) Threat Analysis
5 5 (22.73%) Information Security
5 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
6 4 (18.18%) Line Management
7 2 (9.09%) Application Security
7 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.09%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 2 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) CISSP
5 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (68.18%) NIST
2 12 (54.55%) GDPR
3 11 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (45.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (45.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Snort
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Nessus
2 1 (4.55%) Kibana
2 1 (4.55%) SCCM
2 1 (4.55%) SCOM
2 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Qualys
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Citrix
3 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) Netskope
3 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds