Vulnerability Management Contracts in the North West

Vulnerability Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 137 152
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -26
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 4 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.72% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.79% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 26
10th Percentile £483 £403 £385
25th Percentile £515 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +2.27% +29.41%
75th Percentile £659 £696 £625
90th Percentile £713 £775 £705
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Vulnerability Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the North West

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the North West

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the North West

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Manchester +8 2 £613 +36.11% 15
Cheshire 0 2 £567 -15.37% 18
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Software Audit
2 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk