OpenVAS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenVAS
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenVAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenVAS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.047% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £400 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

OpenVAS falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 307 253 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.57% 14.29% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 181 261
10th Percentile £255 £278 £203
25th Percentile £371 £372 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.56% -10.71%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £608
90th Percentile £607 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 16
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.00 £24.00
25th Percentile £18.94 £22.00 £28.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £47.95
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -29.09% -27.35%
75th Percentile £81.00 £37.00 £53.55
90th Percentile £83.60 £37.60 £68.63
South East median hourly rate £43.75 £26.99 £48.40
% change year-on-year +62.13% -44.25% -15.83%

OpenVAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenVAS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

OpenVAS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

OpenVAS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenVAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OpenVAS

OpenVAS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenVAS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Berkshire - 1 £400 - 1
OpenVAS
South East

OpenVAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Gamification
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7