Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in the South West

Vulnerability Assessment
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 162 166
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 -32
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 9 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 0
10th Percentile £575 £475 -
25th Percentile - £480 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £715 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% - -
75th Percentile - £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +38.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Vulnerability Assessment is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 3,282 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.87% 89.53% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,410 2,334
10th Percentile £220 £311 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 344 193
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.97
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the South West

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the South West

Vulnerability Assessment
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 Assessment within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Wiltshire +1 7 £600 -16.08%
Somerset +3 1 - - 1
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
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 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) SOC Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 4 (44.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
4 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
4 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (66.67%) SIEM
1 6 (66.67%) SOAR
2 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
2 5 (55.56%) Threat Detection
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
3 4 (44.44%) Digital Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (44.44%) Log Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Security Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (22.22%) Red Team
5 2 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C
1 1 (11.11%) C++
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Ruby
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) CREST Certified
3 3 (33.33%) OSCP
4 1 (11.11%) CCNA
4 1 (11.11%) CEH
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (11.11%) CISSP
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NCSC
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Splunk