Vulnerability Management Contracts in the South East

Vulnerability Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 131 184
Rank change year-on-year +35 +53 +48
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 60 68 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.05% 1.22% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.46% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 50 25
10th Percentile £413 £375 £461
25th Percentile £463 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% +11.22%
75th Percentile £600 £596 £638
90th Percentile £613 £680 £716
England median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.77% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,668 4,666 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 83.55% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,714 3,430
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 446 214
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.23 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.93 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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 +45 34 £527 +5.40% 76
Berkshire +41 32 £550 +18.92% 47
Hampshire +41 12 £600 -7.69% 32
Surrey - 7 £475 - 17
Kent - 5 £425 - 20
Buckinghamshire +12 2 £500 -9.09% 22
West Sussex -15 1 £550 +22.22% 8
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (6.67%) Akamai
3 3 (5.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.33%) SonarCloud
5 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) Network Security
2 6 (10.00%) DNS
2 6 (10.00%) Firewall
3 5 (8.33%) DHCP
3 5 (8.33%) FTP
3 5 (8.33%) SMTP
3 5 (8.33%) Telnet
4 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.33%) tcpdump
4 2 (3.33%) VPN
4 2 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) BGP
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.67%) LAN
5 1 (1.67%) Modbus
5 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Snyk
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Legal
5 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (13.33%) Analyst
2 7 (11.67%) Project Manager
2 7 (11.67%) Security Manager
3 6 (10.00%) Security Project Manager
3 6 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Security Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Administrator
5 4 (6.67%) Auditor
5 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Security Specialist
6 3 (5.00%) Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.00%) Lead
6 3 (5.00%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (5.00%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Compliance Project Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Coordinator
7 2 (3.33%) Security Compliance Manager
7 2 (3.33%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) JSON
1 6 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (3.33%) LDAP
3 1 (1.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Security Posture
2 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.00%) CSOC
3 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.67%) PMI
7 1 (1.67%) SCADA
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (35.00%) Incident Response
3 16 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (26.67%) SIEM
4 13 (21.67%) Security Operations
5 11 (18.33%) Incident Management
5 11 (18.33%) Information Security
5 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (15.00%) Risk Management
6 9 (15.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.00%) Process Improvement
8 6 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
8 6 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
9 5 (8.33%) Budget Management
9 5 (8.33%) Cloud Security
9 5 (8.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (8.33%) Security Management
9 5 (8.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.33%) CISSP
4 10 (16.67%) CISM
5 8 (13.33%) Degree
6 6 (10.00%) GIAC
6 6 (10.00%) Master's Degree
7 4 (6.67%) CEH
7 4 (6.67%) CISA
8 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (5.00%) CISMP
8 3 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (3.33%) PMP
10 1 (1.67%) CCNP
10 1 (1.67%) CCSP
10 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) NIST
2 10 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (6.67%) GDPR
5 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (3.33%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.67%) COBIT
7 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (1.67%) GRC
7 1 (1.67%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.67%) NCSC
7 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) NFS
1 5 (8.33%) Samba
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) yum
2 4 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (5.00%) Nessus
4 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.33%) QRadar
5 1 (1.67%) Argo
5 1 (1.67%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.67%) Istio
5 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Qualys
1 5 (8.33%) Rapid7
1 5 (8.33%) Splunk
1 5 (8.33%) VMware
2 4 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco
3 3 (5.00%) HP
3 3 (5.00%) Imperva
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Tenable
4 1 (1.67%) Dell KACE
4 1 (1.67%) Google
4 1 (1.67%) Kenna
4 1 (1.67%) Meraki
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.67%) Ubiquiti