Vulnerability Management Contracts in the South East

Vulnerability Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 186 221
Rank change year-on-year +55 +35 -43
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 64 31 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.16% 0.54% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.60% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 33
10th Percentile £375 £466 £245
25th Percentile £425 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £582
90th Percentile £680 £707 £775
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Vulnerability Management 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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,676 5,160 6,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.69% 89.37% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,738 3,592 4,709
10th Percentile £250 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 222 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.53 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £62.70
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the South East

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the South East

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the South East

Vulnerability Management
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 Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
West Sussex +34 30 £450 -28.00% 4
Thames Valley +25 21 £540 -1.82% 16
Berkshire +5 18 £393 -28.64% 14
Hampshire +3 10 £650 +4.00% 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £550 - 1
Sussex -2 2 £450 -28.00%
Surrey +14 1 £380 -36.67% 2
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
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 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) DHCP
1 10 (15.63%) DNS
2 9 (14.06%) Firewall
2 9 (14.06%) Network Security
3 2 (3.13%) LAN
3 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.13%) WAN
4 1 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.56%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Lead
2 10 (15.63%) Consultant
2 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (15.63%) IT Security Specialist
2 10 (15.63%) Security Consultant
2 10 (15.63%) Security Operations Specialist
2 10 (15.63%) Security Specialist
3 8 (12.50%) Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 5 (7.81%) Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Head of Information
7 3 (4.69%) Head of Information Security
7 3 (4.69%) Head of Operations
7 3 (4.69%) Head of Security
8 2 (3.13%) Information Security Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) IT Administrator
8 2 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Management Information System
2 10 (15.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.94%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.69%) IoT
6 1 (1.56%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Windows
2 13 (20.31%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (6.25%) Linux
5 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) Incident Response
2 29 (45.31%) Security Operations
3 27 (42.19%) SIEM
4 23 (35.94%) Data Security
5 22 (34.38%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (31.25%) Information Security
7 19 (29.69%) Data Loss Prevention
8 12 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
8 12 (18.75%) OWASP
9 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (15.63%) Change Management
11 9 (14.06%) Application Security
11 9 (14.06%) Information Security Management
11 9 (14.06%) ITIL
11 9 (14.06%) Security Management
12 8 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
12 8 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
12 8 (12.50%) Risk Management
12 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (10.94%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) DV Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) ISACA
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) NIST
2 9 (14.06%) COBIT
2 9 (14.06%) GDPR
3 4 (6.25%) NIST 800
4 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (20.31%) Active Directory
1 13 (20.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.75%) XenApp
3 3 (4.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) SCCM
2 3 (4.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (4.69%) Nessus
3 2 (3.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) Microsoft
2 16 (25.00%) Forcepoint
2 16 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 16 (25.00%) Qualys
2 16 (25.00%) Varonis
3 13 (20.31%) Citrix
3 13 (20.31%) VMware
4 7 (10.94%) Ivanti
4 7 (10.94%) Virgin Media
5 4 (6.25%) Cisco
6 3 (4.69%) FireEye
6 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.69%) Splunk
6 3 (4.69%) Tanium
7 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.56%) Apple
8 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.56%) Dell
8 1 (1.56%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.56%) Red Hat