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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 179 204
Rank change year-on-year +20 +25 +56
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 5 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.18% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.22% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £540 £235 £473
25th Percentile - £375 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £675
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -40.74% +22.73%
75th Percentile £623 £450 £781
90th Percentile £639 £688 £838
England median daily rate £550 £567 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% +3.09% +4.36%

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 3,151 4,093 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.84% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,486 3,415
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 328 237
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.22
Median hourly rate £21.67 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.22% +14.70% +105.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Berkshire +13 3 £600 +37.14% 1
Thames Valley +13 3 £600 +33.33% 2
Surrey +17 1 £500 +2.54% 1
Kent -8 1 £615 +53.75% 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Project Management
4 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PgMP
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) VMware