Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in the North of England

Vulnerability Remediation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 166 184
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +47
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 7 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £408 £502 £550
25th Percentile £506 £504 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 £518 £606
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -14.60% +51.50%
75th Percentile £654 £536 -
90th Percentile £693 £554 £639
England median daily rate £550 £567 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% +3.09% +4.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,517 3,502 4,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.88% 84.02% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,233 2,133 3,175
10th Percentile £268 £300 £290
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £553 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 252 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.11 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.09 £18.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.80 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% -11.95% +46.50%
75th Percentile £43.91 £48.19 £45.88
90th Percentile £73.13 £69.98 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the North of England

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the North of England

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the North of England

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West -1 7 £612 +18.26% 8
Vulnerability Remediation
England

Vulnerability Remediation
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) SSL
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) WAAS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) Incident Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Log Correlation
3 3 (42.86%) Ticket Management
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Software Distribution
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (42.86%) MCSA
1 3 (42.86%) MCSE
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Nessus
2 3 (42.86%) CASB
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Tenable
2 3 (42.86%) CyberArk
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Remedy
2 3 (42.86%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) BMC
3 1 (14.29%) Qualys
3 1 (14.29%) Tanium