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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 186 207
Rank change year-on-year +58 +21 +53
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 23 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.78% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.26% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile £565 £463 £500
25th Percentile £663 £588 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £610
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +31.15% +148.98%
75th Percentile £688 £919 £679
90th Percentile £725 £938 £719
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.75 - £71.20
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £72.40
75th Percentile £88.87 - £73.59
90th Percentile £91.05 - -
England median hourly rate £45.12 - £72.40

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 2,683 4,602 4,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.21% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,719 2,674 3,447
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 441 218
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.03 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.05 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.06% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £62.06 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the South East over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the South East

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the South East over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the South East

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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 22 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 +50 23 £675 -15.63% 58
Berkshire +53 22 £675 - 33
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 - 12
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England

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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 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
1 6 (26.09%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Burp Suite
1 1 (4.35%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Military
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Senior
2 11 (47.83%) Information Security Specialist
2 11 (47.83%) Information Specialist
2 11 (47.83%) Security Specialist
3 8 (34.78%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 8 (34.78%) Senior Information Security Specialist
3 8 (34.78%) Senior Security Specialist
4 5 (21.74%) Security Advisor
5 4 (17.39%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Information Security Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (4.35%) Security Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Information Security Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Security Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (21.74%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 17 (73.91%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) CESG
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Kali Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Security Architecture
2 16 (69.57%) Risk Management
3 14 (60.87%) Information Security
4 13 (56.52%) Risk Assessment
5 11 (47.83%) Decision-Making
6 10 (43.48%) Information Assurance
7 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (26.09%) DevOps
8 6 (26.09%) Threat Modelling
9 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (13.04%) Analytical Thinking
10 3 (13.04%) Security Testing
10 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (4.35%) Actionable Insight
11 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security
11 1 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
11 1 (4.35%) Ethical Hacking
11 1 (4.35%) Security Monitoring
11 1 (4.35%) SOAR
11 1 (4.35%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 20 (86.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (69.57%) DV Cleared
3 8 (34.78%) CISM
4 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) NCSC
2 8 (34.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Darktrace