Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Scanning
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning 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 100 143 149
Rank change year-on-year +43 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.074% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.085% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £470 £460 £332
25th Percentile £500 £550 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £381
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +83.61% -19.74%
75th Percentile £600 £850 £417
90th Percentile £630 £940 £426
South East median daily rate £600 £500 £581
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.98% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Vulnerability Scanning 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 Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning 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 +32 2 £550 -45.00%
Vulnerability Scanning
South East

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PgMP
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable