Vulnerability Management Contracts in the South West

Vulnerability Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 98 136 112
Rank change year-on-year +38 -24 +50
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 15 20 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.89% 0.62% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.75% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 44
10th Percentile £263 - £413
25th Percentile £265 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +2.33% +43.33%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £723
90th Percentile £700 £596 £738
England median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.77% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,532 2,670 3,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.81% 82.38% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 937 1,703 2,221
10th Percentile £220 £233 £313
25th Percentile £384 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 353 313
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.45% -4.35% +18.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £81.89
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the South West

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the South West

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the South West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the South West

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Somerset +7 5 £278 -53.75% 5
Bristol +14 4 £400 -24.53% 9
Devon - 3 £525 - 2
Gloucestershire +18 2 £700 - 7
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Modbus
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (20.00%) Server Hardening
3 3 (20.00%) SIEM
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Nessus
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
1 3 (20.00%) WSUS
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) Qualys
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk