Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Vulnerability Management
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 23 29
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.85% 3.11% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 3.33% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £500 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £278 £600
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -53.75% -
75th Percentile £638 £328 -
90th Percentile £660 £386 -
South West median daily rate £552 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +26.17% -20.45% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 150 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 73.09% 93.17% 74.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 93 91
10th Percentile £356 £230 £200
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £675 £600
90th Percentile £675 £775 £613
South West median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 19 31
10th Percentile £22.25 £14.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - £28.81 £61.25
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £33.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year +70.78% -38.78% -8.18%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in Somerset

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in Somerset over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in Somerset

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
Bath -3 1 £650 +91.18% 12
Street - 1 £600 - 1
Taunton - 1 £400 - 1
Vulnerability Management
South West

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) IAM Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (33.33%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Advanced Persistent Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Purple Team
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
1 1 (33.33%) Red Team
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) SOAR
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (33.33%) Intel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable