Vulnerability Assessment Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Vulnerability Assessment
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.46% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £625 £447 £500
% change year-on-year +39.82% -10.60% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 116 118 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 84.67% 85.51% 66.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 75 73
10th Percentile £163 £170 £200
25th Percentile £250 £329 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £588
90th Percentile £714 £665 £648
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 4
10th Percentile £14.32 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.06 -
Median hourly rate £37.24 £64.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.49% -19.06% +196.30%
75th Percentile £49.38 £72.63 -
90th Percentile £62.23 £74.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.36 £25.15 £62.50
% change year-on-year +92.29% -59.76% +13.64%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in Southampton

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Qualys
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable