Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends in the North East

Vulnerability Remediation
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 245 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 85.27% 83.90% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 147 99
10th Percentile £313 £225 £314
25th Percentile £363 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £594
90th Percentile £650 £646 £704
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 14 35
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.48 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £15.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.28 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +140.55% -38.61% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £47.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in the North East

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the North East over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the North East

Vulnerability Remediation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation within the North East region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £650 - 8
Durham - 1 £500 -
Vulnerability Remediation
England

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DMZ
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Claude Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler