Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 108 126
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +27
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 8 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.52% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.33% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 12
10th Percentile £343 £436 £463
25th Percentile £388 £453 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £544 £609
90th Percentile £625 £645 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,346 1,494 2,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.29% 89.30% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 885 1,333
10th Percentile £238 £230 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 44 53
10th Percentile £13.97 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £49.66 £32.66 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in Scotland

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Edinburgh - 3 £625 -
Glasgow -9 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 £525 -
Highlands - 1 £425 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £325 -
Aberdeen - 1 - - 2
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Lucidchart
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) Modbus
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Technical Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) 3D Printing
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Extraction
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (12.50%) Security Management
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) IIBA
1 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Avaya
2 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Rockwell
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds