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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 115 100
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 +94
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 9 19 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.36% 0.72% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.88% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 44
10th Percentile £346 £323 £444
25th Percentile £453 £398 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £513 £640
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -19.86% +6.58%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £738
90th Percentile £773 £813 £796
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.71%

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 2,216 2,158 2,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.62% 81.50% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 1,468 1,810
10th Percentile £231 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £374 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £600
90th Percentile £644 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 97 85
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £21.35 £20.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% -27.27% +48.25%
75th Percentile £26.69 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.43 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -9 8 £725 +56.76% 11
East Midlands -3 1 £300 -56.74% 10
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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Security Advisor
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) SIEM
3 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
4 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
4 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
6 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Risk Register
6 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery Management
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 1 (11.11%) Due Diligence
7 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
7 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (11.11%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) CISSP
3 4 (44.44%) CISM
4 3 (33.33%) CISA
5 2 (22.22%) GCIH
5 2 (22.22%) GIAC
5 2 (22.22%) ISACA
5 2 (22.22%) SANS
6 1 (11.11%) BC Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) CEH
6 1 (11.11%) CRISC
6 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Tenable
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) VMware