Vulnerability Assessment Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Vulnerability Assessment
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 47 52
Rank change year-on-year -47 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.50% 0.63% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.66% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £820 - -
25th Percentile £831 - £1,050
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £700 £1,100
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -36.36% -
75th Percentile £956 - £1,150
90th Percentile £960 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £900 £700 £1,100
% change year-on-year +28.57% -36.36% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Vulnerability Assessment 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 910 302 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 91.27% 95.57% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 193 196
10th Percentile £363 £222 £375
25th Percentile £417 £381 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% -2.31% -15.43%
75th Percentile £558 £581 £588
90th Percentile £671 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +2.53% +1.06% -14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 £11.33
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -17.25% +91.30%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 £18.47 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 £18.21 £17.62
% change year-on-year +6.23% +3.35% +65.71%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) DWDM
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Core Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Arista
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft