Vulnerability Management Contracts in the North of England

Vulnerability Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 150 174 180
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 16 11 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.23% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.27% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 31
10th Percentile £395 £444 £425
25th Percentile - £478 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £559 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.47% -2.87% +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £580 £670
90th Percentile £723 £666 £775
England median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the North of England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the North of England

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the North of England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the North of England

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +23 10 £500 -11.82% 41
Yorkshire +5 4 - - 20
North East - 2 £688 - 7
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
3 4 (25.00%) Google Workspace
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) Apigee
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (18.75%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.25%) MPLS
4 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.25%) tcpdump
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Aviation
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (12.50%) Police
3 2 (12.50%) Swedish Language
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Quality Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
1 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (31.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Robotics
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (6.25%) MISP
4 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
1 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
2 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Privileged Access Management
2 5 (31.25%) RBAC
2 5 (31.25%) SIEM
2 5 (31.25%) User Experience
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Capacity Management
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 2 (12.50%) Service Management
5 2 (12.50%) SOAR
5 2 (12.50%) Time Management
5 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Nessus
4 1 (6.25%) OpenVAS
4 1 (6.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
2 5 (31.25%) CyberArk
2 5 (31.25%) Google
3 4 (25.00%) Citrix
3 4 (25.00%) Tenable
3 4 (25.00%) Zscaler
4 2 (12.50%) Ribbon
5 1 (6.25%) ArcSight
5 1 (6.25%) Carbon Black
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) IBM
5 1 (6.25%) LogRhythm
5 1 (6.25%) Meraki
5 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.25%) Qualys
5 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
5 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.25%) Splunk