Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in the South East

Vulnerability Remediation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation 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 153 194 220
Rank change year-on-year +41 +26 +35
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 6 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.20% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.23% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 2
10th Percentile £466 - £616
25th Percentile £526 £375 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £420 £638
Median % change year-on-year +38.93% -34.12% +21.43%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £647
90th Percentile £625 - £649
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +5.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Vulnerability Remediation 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 Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the South East

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the South East

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the South East

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation 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 +46 4 £600 +41.18% 7
Berkshire +34 4 £600 +41.18% 4
Surrey +15 1 £525 +5.00% 2
East Sussex -3 1 £420 +1.20% 1
Vulnerability Remediation
England

Vulnerability Remediation
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 1 (16.67%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (16.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISA
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PgMP
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Argo
1 1 (16.67%) Istio
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Qualys
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow