Vulnerability Scanning Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Vulnerability Scanning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 156 182
Rank change year-on-year -35 +26 +42
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 20 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.42% 0.17% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.19% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 1
10th Percentile £393 £483 -
25th Percentile £503 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% +6.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £525 £488
90th Percentile £641 - -
England median daily rate £538 £583 £570
% change year-on-year -7.73% +2.19% -4.00%

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 4,189 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.62% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.36 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £28.96 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in the North of England

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the North of England

Vulnerability Scanning
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
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 19 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
North West -23 8 £612 +20.00% 3
North East -1 6 £556 +11.25% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £520 - 4
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) OpenShift
3 8 (40.00%) GCP
4 6 (30.00%) Azure
5 3 (15.00%) OCI
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) Datadog
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.00%) Apigee
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) SSL
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Information Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Keycloak
2 3 (15.00%) LDAP
3 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) JWT
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (50.00%) Validation
4 9 (45.00%) Cloud Security
5 8 (40.00%) Incident Response
6 7 (35.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (30.00%) GitOps
7 6 (30.00%) Migration
8 5 (25.00%) DevOps
8 5 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
9 4 (20.00%) Microservices
9 4 (20.00%) Observability
9 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
10 3 (15.00%) Log Correlation
10 3 (15.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) CISSP
3 6 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (15.00%) CISM
4 3 (15.00%) GCIA
4 3 (15.00%) GCIH
4 3 (15.00%) GIAC
4 3 (15.00%) MCSA
4 3 (15.00%) MCSE
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (15.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (30.00%) NIST
2 3 (15.00%) NIST 800
2 3 (15.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Ansible
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Argo
2 6 (30.00%) Istio
3 3 (15.00%) CASB
3 3 (15.00%) Fluentd
3 3 (15.00%) Grafana
3 3 (15.00%) Nessus
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Splunk
2 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (15.00%) Cribl.io
3 3 (15.00%) CyberArk
3 3 (15.00%) Rapid7
3 3 (15.00%) Remedy
3 3 (15.00%) Tenable
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft