Vulnerability Research Contract Job Trends in the South East

Vulnerability Research
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Vulnerability Research skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Research 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.023% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Vulnerability Research 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 3,715 2,989 4,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.16% 89.30% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,445 1,854 2,848
10th Percentile £237 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -1.27% +1.53%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 112 286
10th Percentile £14.50 £19.37 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.56 £24.57
Median hourly rate £23.58 £43.94 £54.44
Median % change year-on-year -46.35% -19.29% +20.98%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.55 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.57 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%

Vulnerability Research
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Research relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Vulnerability Research job vacancy trend in the South East

Vulnerability Research
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Vulnerability Research.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Vulnerability Research

Vulnerability Research
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 Research within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. 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 - 1 £400 - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £400 - 4
Vulnerability Research
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Gamification
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7