Vulnerability Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management 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 64 123 140
Rank change year-on-year +59 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 38 22 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.51% 0.82% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 0.94% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 10
10th Percentile £400 - £411
25th Percentile £450 £310 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 - £578
90th Percentile £606 £655 £594
South East median daily rate £550 £450 £589
% change year-on-year +22.22% -23.63% +17.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Vulnerability Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Management
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 Management 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 +48 36 £550 +40.13% 5
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £500 -9.09% 3
Vulnerability Management
South East

Vulnerability Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.26%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) DNS
2 6 (15.79%) DHCP
2 6 (15.79%) FTP
2 6 (15.79%) Network Security
2 6 (15.79%) SMTP
2 6 (15.79%) Telnet
3 3 (7.89%) tcpdump
4 2 (5.26%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (2.63%) BGP
5 1 (2.63%) Firewall
5 1 (2.63%) LAN
5 1 (2.63%) Modbus
5 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.63%) VPN
5 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Snyk
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Legal
4 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) SIEM Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Administrator
3 4 (10.53%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (10.53%) Security Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (7.89%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) Security Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Auditor
5 2 (5.26%) Compliance Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Compliance Project Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Data Compliance Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Head of Strategy
5 2 (5.26%) Information Security Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Security Auditor
5 2 (5.26%) Security Compliance Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) JSON
1 6 (15.79%) REST
2 3 (7.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Security Posture
2 7 (18.42%) Onboarding
3 6 (15.79%) CSOC
4 5 (13.16%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
5 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
5 3 (7.89%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.63%) PMI
7 1 (2.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
2 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (36.84%) SIEM
3 13 (34.21%) Incident Response
3 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (31.58%) Security Operations
5 8 (21.05%) Information Security
5 8 (21.05%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 7 (18.42%) Incident Management
7 6 (15.79%) OWASP
7 6 (15.79%) Process Improvement
7 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
7 6 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
7 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
8 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.16%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.53%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (10.53%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 13 (34.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) CISSP
4 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 6 (15.79%) GIAC
5 5 (13.16%) CISM
6 4 (10.53%) CEH
6 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
7 3 (7.89%) CISMP
7 3 (7.89%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
8 2 (5.26%) CISA
9 1 (2.63%) CCNA
9 1 (2.63%) CCNP
9 1 (2.63%) CCSP
9 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (2.63%) PgMP
9 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
9 1 (2.63%) PMP
9 1 (2.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) NIST
2 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
3 5 (13.16%) GDPR
4 4 (10.53%) COBIT
4 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.63%) GRC
5 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) NFS
1 6 (15.79%) Samba
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) yum
2 5 (13.16%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) QRadar
4 1 (2.63%) Argo
4 1 (2.63%) CSIRT
4 1 (2.63%) Istio
4 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
1 5 (13.16%) VMware
2 4 (10.53%) HP
2 4 (10.53%) Splunk
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Kenna
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) Tenable