Vulnerability Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 144 156
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 -35
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 23 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.83% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.40% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 11
10th Percentile £310 £411 £238
25th Percentile £393 £459 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £578 £560
90th Percentile £675 £594 £875
South East median daily rate £450 £589 £500
% change year-on-year -23.63% +17.84% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Vulnerability Management 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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,435 2,757 3,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.03% 91.99% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 1,902 2,106
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £495
% change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 56 89
10th Percentile £14.76 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.05
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +178.29% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.29 £66.21 £29.00
90th Percentile £85.41 £79.72 £68.35
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.26% +111.11% -15.89%

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 16 April 2024.

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 16 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
Berkshire +2 20 £438 -20.45% 19
Buckinghamshire - 3 £550 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) Network Security
2 6 (26.09%) DHCP
2 6 (26.09%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
General
1 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
1 7 (30.43%) Consultant
1 7 (30.43%) Security Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Security Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Head of Information
5 2 (8.70%) Head of Information Security
5 2 (8.70%) Head of Operations
5 2 (8.70%) Head of Security
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Security Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (13.04%) JSON
1 3 (13.04%) Regular Expression
1 3 (13.04%) XML
1 3 (13.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) IoT
2 3 (13.04%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (47.83%) OWASP
3 10 (43.48%) Identity Access Management
3 10 (43.48%) Information Security
4 9 (39.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (34.78%) Application Security
5 8 (34.78%) Conflict Resolution
5 8 (34.78%) Information Security Management
5 8 (34.78%) ITIL
5 8 (34.78%) Security Management
6 7 (30.43%) Risk Management
7 6 (26.09%) SIEM
8 5 (21.74%) Budget Management
8 5 (21.74%) Budgeting
8 5 (21.74%) Capacity Management
8 5 (21.74%) Project Planning
8 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
9 3 (13.04%) Data Ingestion
9 3 (13.04%) DevOps
9 3 (13.04%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) ISACA
2 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) COBIT
1 8 (34.78%) GDPR
1 8 (34.78%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (17.39%) XenApp
2 3 (13.04%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kibana
1 3 (13.04%) logstash
1 3 (13.04%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (8.70%) Nessus
3 1 (4.35%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Citrix
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) FireEye
3 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.04%) Tanium
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Google
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) Proofpoint
5 1 (4.35%) Zscaler