Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Vulnerability Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 146 163
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 +15
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 64 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.35% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.59% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 9 19
10th Percentile £363 £385 £405
25th Percentile £450 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £540 £650 £581
90th Percentile £600 £788 £628
England median daily rate £525 £558 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% -7.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.94 - -
Median hourly rate £45.46 - -
75th Percentile £56.00 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
England median hourly rate £49.73 £53.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year -7.48% +9.69% -24.90%

All Process & 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 4,201 3,066 4,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.29% 87.05% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,795 1,747 2,706
10th Percentile £220 £263 £292
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £667 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 146 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.09
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.08 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.80 £27.26 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -9.15% +33.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £67.84 £61.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vulnerability Management

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 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the North of England

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 31 December 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
Yorkshire -12 38 £509 -21.65% 60
North West -5 26 £501 -1.73% 71
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) Azure
2 11 (17.19%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.94%) GCP
5 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.81%) SaaS
7 4 (6.25%) Azure Storage
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.69%) OCI
9 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.56%) Apigee
10 1 (1.56%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.88%) Firewall
2 6 (9.38%) Kerberos
2 6 (9.38%) Network Security
2 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.69%) DNS
3 3 (4.69%) SSL
4 2 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.56%) SCCP
5 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) Snyk
3 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (21.88%) Finance
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Publishing
6 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Architect
2 11 (17.19%) Security Architect
3 10 (15.63%) Analyst
3 10 (15.63%) Lead
3 10 (15.63%) Senior
4 8 (12.50%) Administrator
4 8 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.94%) Lead Architect
5 7 (10.94%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.94%) Security Analyst
6 6 (9.38%) Operations Analyst
6 6 (9.38%) Security Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Lead Security Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Design Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Tester
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) OAuth
2 10 (15.63%) SAML
3 5 (7.81%) JWT
3 5 (7.81%) SAP Basis
4 3 (4.69%) LDAP
5 1 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 11 (17.19%) Onboarding
3 10 (15.63%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (12.50%) Security Posture
5 6 (9.38%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (9.38%) Management Information System
5 6 (9.38%) Taxonomies
6 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.88%) Windows
2 9 (14.06%) Linux
3 5 (7.81%) Windows 10
4 4 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (65.63%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (40.63%) Security Operations
3 24 (37.50%) Incident Response
4 20 (31.25%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 19 (29.69%) Identity Access Management
6 18 (28.13%) Cloud Security
7 15 (23.44%) Cryptography
7 15 (23.44%) Risk Management
7 15 (23.44%) Secrets Management
7 15 (23.44%) SIEM
7 15 (23.44%) TOGAF
8 13 (20.31%) Computer Science
8 13 (20.31%) SABSA
9 12 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
9 12 (18.75%) Decision-Making
9 12 (18.75%) Privileged Access Management
9 12 (18.75%) Technical Debt
9 12 (18.75%) Validation
10 11 (17.19%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 11 (17.19%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) Python
2 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.56%) Bash
3 1 (1.56%) Java
3 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (35.94%) CISSP
3 22 (34.38%) SC Cleared
4 19 (29.69%) CISM
5 15 (23.44%) Degree
6 13 (20.31%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (15.63%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (15.63%) Master's Degree
7 10 (15.63%) PhD
8 5 (7.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (4.69%) GCIA
9 3 (4.69%) GCIH
9 3 (4.69%) GIAC
9 3 (4.69%) MCSA
9 3 (4.69%) MCSE
9 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (4.69%) SSCP
10 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 2 (3.13%) CCSP
10 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) NIST
2 9 (14.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.81%) NCSC
3 5 (7.81%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.69%) GDPR
4 3 (4.69%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.13%) PSD2
6 1 (1.56%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (10.94%) Nessus
2 7 (10.94%) SCCM
3 5 (7.81%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (4.69%) CASB
4 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.13%) Ansible
5 2 (3.13%) WSUS
6 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) CyberArk
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) BiZZdesign
3 9 (14.06%) Centrify
4 7 (10.94%) McAfee
4 7 (10.94%) Splunk
5 6 (9.38%) Okta
5 6 (9.38%) Rapid7
5 6 (9.38%) SAP
6 5 (7.81%) Qualys
6 5 (7.81%) Symantec
7 4 (6.25%) Tanium
8 3 (4.69%) Remedy
8 3 (4.69%) Tenable
9 2 (3.13%) Cisco
9 2 (3.13%) Citrix
9 2 (3.13%) Google
9 2 (3.13%) VMware
10 1 (1.56%) Checkmarx
10 1 (1.56%) Veracode