Vulnerability Scanning Contract Job Trends in the North West

Vulnerability Scanning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 115 134
Rank change year-on-year -24 +19 +31
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 6 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.24% 0.34% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.38% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £324 £399 -
25th Percentile £346 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +7.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £637 £520 £488
90th Percentile £641 £544 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,207 1,830 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.93% 87.85% 87.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,042 1,581
10th Percentile £213 £275 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £661 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 93 155
10th Percentile £16.30 £16.01 £14.01
25th Percentile £21.51 £21.05 £18.70
Median hourly rate £41.86 £30.40 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.68% -24.47% +11.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £47.67
90th Percentile £69.72 £74.51 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in the North West

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in the North West over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the North West

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Cheshire - 5 £494 -
Lancashire - 1 - - 5
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Change Control
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Fluentd
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk