Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Vulnerability Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 64 82
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 10 24 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.69% 2.18% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.52% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 3
10th Percentile £493 £453 £470
25th Percentile £527 £496 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £541 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +11.03% -15.22%
75th Percentile £624 £691 £691
90th Percentile £696 £700 £801
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £564 £650
% change year-on-year -11.31% -13.27% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Vulnerability Management 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 544 954 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.74% 86.57% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 511 658
10th Percentile £342 £350 £299
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 18
10th Percentile - £14.50 £38.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £50.81 £57.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £61.33 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% -7.08% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £73.57 £74.59
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.77
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.55 £60.00
% change year-on-year -39.43% +2.58% +18.81%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in Reading

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Reading over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in Reading

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) IPsec
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
1 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Insider Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 2 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 2 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CISSP
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCSP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
1 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Intel