Vulnerability Scanning Contract Job Trends in Preston

Vulnerability Scanning
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston 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 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 46 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 85.71% 88.46% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 20
10th Percentile £250 £431 £335
25th Percentile £440 £502 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +26.59% +0.88%
75th Percentile £680 £573 £513
90th Percentile £700 £646 £593
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £525 £620
% change year-on-year +4.76% -15.32% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 27
10th Percentile £37.91 £27.02 £21.43
25th Percentile £39.53 £30.40 £41.84
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.52 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.06% -31.75% +14.57%
75th Percentile £45.84 £37.00 £53.58
90th Percentile £68.71 £55.71 £75.83
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.56% - +13.81%

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2