Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in the South East

Vulnerability Assessment
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 192 214
Rank change year-on-year +60 +22 +42
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 27 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.90% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.28% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 5
10th Percentile £545 £463 £480
25th Percentile £613 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +33.33% +144.90%
75th Percentile £703 £919 £700
90th Percentile £731 £938 £723
England median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.75 - £71.20
Median hourly rate £73.25 £70.00 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% -3.31% -
75th Percentile £88.53 - £73.59
90th Percentile £90.69 - -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £72.40
% change year-on-year -12.15% -3.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the South East

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the South East

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the South East

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the South East

Vulnerability Assessment
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the South East

Vulnerability Assessment
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +58 26 £675 -15.63% 39
Berkshire +55 25 £625 - 18
Hampshire +25 1 £650 +33.33% 20
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 - 8
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (7.41%) AWS
1 2 (7.41%) Azure
1 2 (7.41%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
1 6 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) Metasploit
1 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (22.22%) Military
1 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) Senior
2 14 (51.85%) Security Specialist
3 13 (48.15%) Information Security Specialist
3 13 (48.15%) Information Specialist
3 13 (48.15%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 13 (48.15%) Senior Security Specialist
4 12 (44.44%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 5 (18.52%) Security Advisor
6 4 (14.81%) Lead
7 2 (7.41%) Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Information Security Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Penetration Tester
8 1 (3.70%) Security Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Information Security Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Security Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (18.52%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 18 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) CESG
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Kali Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 18 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 17 (62.96%) Risk Assessment
3 15 (55.56%) Information Security
4 14 (51.85%) Decision-Making
5 11 (40.74%) Information Assurance
6 9 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
7 7 (25.93%) DevOps
8 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (7.41%) Security Monitoring
9 2 (7.41%) Security Testing
9 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (7.41%) Threat Detection
9 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management
10 1 (3.70%) Actionable Insight
10 1 (3.70%) Analytical Thinking
10 1 (3.70%) Application Security
10 1 (3.70%) CI/CD
10 1 (3.70%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Bash
1 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (85.19%) Security Cleared
2 20 (74.07%) DV Cleared
3 13 (48.15%) CISM
4 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (11.11%) CISSP
6 1 (3.70%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (37.04%) NCSC
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Darktrace