Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in the North West

Vulnerability Remediation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 113 136 155
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.036% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.042% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £208 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £567 £350
Median % change year-on-year -62.08% +62.00% -46.15%
75th Percentile £394 - £375
90th Percentile £555 - -
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +5.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the North West

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the North West

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the North West

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the North West 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
Merseyside - 3 £215 - 4
Cumbria - 2 - -
Cheshire 0 1 £388 -31.66% 2
Manchester - 1 £625 - 4
Vulnerability Remediation
England

Vulnerability Remediation
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
1 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
1 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Back Office
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Android
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (28.57%) AIX
4 2 (28.57%) CentOS
4 2 (28.57%) HPUX
4 2 (28.57%) Solaris
4 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 2 (28.57%) Unix
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) BCP
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (28.57%) KVM
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Apple
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) BMC
4 1 (14.29%) Tenable