Vulnerability Assessment Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 47 53
Rank change year-on-year -55 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.46% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.57% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £820 - -
25th Percentile £831 - £1,050
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £700 £1,100
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -36.36% -
75th Percentile £956 - £1,150
90th Percentile £960 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £888 £700 £1,100
% change year-on-year +26.79% -36.36% +76.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 994 351 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 91.03% 95.38% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 223 239
10th Percentile £358 £220 £310
25th Percentile £413 £381 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +1.06% -14.55%
75th Percentile £554 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £15.28 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.34 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.21 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +3.35% +65.71%
75th Percentile £24.29 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Sheffield -47 5 £900 +28.57% 1
Vulnerability Assessment
Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) DWDM
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Core Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Arista
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft