Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in the South West

Vulnerability Scanning
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 137 166
Rank change year-on-year +36 +29 -8
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 8 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 0.41% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.50% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile - - £436
25th Percentile £265 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £597
90th Percentile £575 - £629
England median daily rate £534 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% -0.18% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Vulnerability Scanning 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 1,520 2,615 3,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.64% 83.12% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 1,666 2,285
10th Percentile £230 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 342 318
10th Percentile £18.29 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.41
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +23.08%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the South West

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the South West

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the South West

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bristol - 4 £280 - 4
Wiltshire +21 3 £500 -4.76% 2
Somerset - 1 £280 -
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
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 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Snyk
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux DevOps Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Security Hardening
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) GitOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 4 (50.00%) Grafana
3 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (25.00%) Nessus
5 1 (12.50%) Packer
5 1 (12.50%) SCCM
5 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
5 1 (12.50%) VxRail
5 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Qualys
3 1 (12.50%) Dell