Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Assessment
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 134 145
Rank change year-on-year +58 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 26 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.72% 0.41% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.47% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £533 £611 £620
25th Percentile £581 £775 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +14.29% +185.71%
75th Percentile £719 £938 £719
90th Percentile £738 £940 £730
South East median daily rate £663 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -17.19% +33.33% +144.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.75 - £71.20
Median hourly rate £73.25 £70.00 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% -3.31% -
75th Percentile £88.53 - £73.59
90th Percentile £90.69 - -
South East median hourly rate £73.25 £70.00 £72.40
% change year-on-year +4.64% -3.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the Thames Valley

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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 Vulnerability Assessment within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +55 25 £625 - 18
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 - 8
Vulnerability Assessment
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
1 6 (23.08%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.85%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (23.08%) Military
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (84.62%) Senior
2 14 (53.85%) Security Specialist
3 13 (50.00%) Information Security Specialist
3 13 (50.00%) Information Specialist
3 13 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 13 (50.00%) Senior Security Specialist
4 12 (46.15%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 5 (19.23%) Security Advisor
6 4 (15.38%) Lead
7 2 (7.69%) Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Information Security Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) Penetration Tester
8 1 (3.85%) Security Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Information Security Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Security Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (19.23%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 18 (69.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.85%) CESG
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Kali Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Security Architecture
2 17 (65.38%) Risk Management
3 16 (61.54%) Risk Assessment
4 15 (57.69%) Information Security
5 14 (53.85%) Decision-Making
6 11 (42.31%) Information Assurance
7 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (30.77%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (23.08%) DevOps
10 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 1 (3.85%) Actionable Insight
12 1 (3.85%) Analytical Thinking
12 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Working
12 1 (3.85%) Open Source
12 1 (3.85%) OSINT
12 1 (3.85%) Security Monitoring
12 1 (3.85%) SIEM
12 1 (3.85%) Threat Detection
12 1 (3.85%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 23 (88.46%) Security Cleared
2 20 (76.92%) DV Cleared
3 12 (46.15%) CISM
4 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (38.46%) NCSC
3 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Darktrace