Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in the North of England

Vulnerability Scanning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning 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 150 184 217
Rank change year-on-year +34 +33 -2
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 16 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.021% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.024% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £492 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
England median daily rate £516 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -7.81% -1.32% +13.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Vulnerability Scanning 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 Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the North of England

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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 Scanning 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 +29 13 £505 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 11
North East - 1 £550 -
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Entra ID
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (62.50%) IaaS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) Firewall
2 11 (68.75%) Intrusion Detection
2 11 (68.75%) Network Security
3 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (68.75%) Telecoms
2 2 (12.50%) Aviation
2 2 (12.50%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (12.50%) Police
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) Robotics
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
1 13 (81.25%) Windows Server
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Business Continuity
2 10 (62.50%) Change Management
3 9 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (50.00%) BCP
4 8 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (50.00%) High Availability
4 8 (50.00%) Information Security
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (43.75%) Line Management
5 7 (43.75%) Project Delivery
5 7 (43.75%) Web Operations
6 5 (31.25%) Analytics
6 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
8 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 2 (12.50%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Azure Certification
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
1 11 (68.75%) vSphere
2 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (68.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) ForgeRock
3 2 (12.50%) Ribbon
3 2 (12.50%) Tenable
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace