Vulnerability Scanning Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Scanning
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 113 150
Rank change year-on-year -16 +37 +5
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.061% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.066% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +62.50% -36.00%
75th Percentile £538 £675 -
90th Percentile £628 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £650 £400
% change year-on-year -26.92% +62.50% -36.00%

All Process & 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 1,972 1,521 2,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.22% 92.29% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 884 1,492
10th Percentile £270 £263 £213
25th Percentile £394 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -0.05% -0.15% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 42 153
10th Percentile £15.71 £24.79 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.60 £20.17
Median hourly rate £25.84 £60.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.11% +26.84% +34.11%
75th Percentile £66.75 £64.73 £63.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £79.72 £82.44
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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 17 February 2026.

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 17 February 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 - 3 £525 - 1
Buckinghamshire -6 2 £463 -28.85% 1
Vulnerability Scanning
South East

Vulnerability Scanning
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 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Compliance Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Server Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Compliance Audit
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Nessus
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Snow
2 2 (40.00%) Sophos
2 2 (40.00%) Tenable
3 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
3 1 (20.00%) Qualys
3 1 (20.00%) Rapid7