Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Vulnerability Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 156 153
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 4 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.36% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.39% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 16
10th Percentile - £647 £419
25th Percentile £275 £658 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £667 £525
Median % change year-on-year -55.02% +27.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £493 £676 £600
90th Percentile £593 - £655
UK median daily rate £538 £568 £525
% change year-on-year -5.20% +8.10% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,536 3,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.55% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,814 2,263
10th Percentile £225 £261 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% +11.23%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -58.02% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £49.24 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Vulnerability Scanning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in Scotland

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +4 3 £300 -55.02% 1
Edinburgh - 1 - - 1
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Sumo Logic
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Argo
1 1 (25.00%) Istio
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft