Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 410 489
Rank change year-on-year +53 +79 -83
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 46 47 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.22% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 39 26
10th Percentile £440 £416 £306
25th Percentile £509 £456 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +61.11%
75th Percentile £775 £730 £763
90th Percentile £923 £738 -
UK median daily rate £531 £525 £585
% change year-on-year +1.19% -10.26% +31.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.31% +80.99% -37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
South East +21 13 £800 +33.33% 4
Scotland +45 12 £515 -6.36%
South West +16 11 £600 - 4
North of England +28 5 £700 +55.56% 3
North West +17 4 £650 +44.44% 2
Midlands +22 3 £650 -8.77% 1
West Midlands +19 3 £650 -10.34% 1
Yorkshire +20 1 £1,100 +76.00%
East of England +12 1 - - 7
Wales - 1 £145 - 2
Vulnerability Assessment
UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.17%) IaaS
5 1 (2.17%) PaaS
5 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) Firewall
2 9 (19.57%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (19.57%) Cisco ISE
2 9 (19.57%) Network Security
3 2 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.17%) BGP
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.17%) DHCP
4 1 (2.17%) DNS
4 1 (2.17%) IOS XR
4 1 (2.17%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.17%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
1 1 (2.17%) MSI
1 1 (2.17%) Robot Framework
1 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (32.61%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Analyst
2 18 (39.13%) Security Analyst
3 12 (26.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Network Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Network Security Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
4 6 (13.04%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Senior Security Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) SOC Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Security Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Juniper Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) JSON
1 1 (2.17%) LDAP
1 1 (2.17%) Middleware
1 1 (2.17%) NETCONF
1 1 (2.17%) XML
1 1 (2.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Security Posture
2 12 (26.09%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.52%) Operational Technology
5 3 (6.52%) SCADA
5 3 (6.52%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.17%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.17%) AIX
3 1 (2.17%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Solaris
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (47.83%) SIEM
3 13 (28.26%) Incident Response
3 13 (28.26%) Information Security
3 13 (28.26%) Vulnerability Management
4 12 (26.09%) Privileged Access Management
5 11 (23.91%) Penetration Testing
6 10 (21.74%) Decision-Making
6 10 (21.74%) Security Monitoring
6 10 (21.74%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 9 (19.57%) Business Impact Analysis
7 9 (19.57%) Impact Analysis
7 9 (19.57%) Incident Management
7 9 (19.57%) Technical Analysis
7 9 (19.57%) Threat Detection
7 9 (19.57%) Use Case
8 7 (15.22%) Cloud Security
8 7 (15.22%) Security Operations
8 7 (15.22%) SOAR
8 7 (15.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) Python
2 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.17%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) C
3 1 (2.17%) C++
3 1 (2.17%) Java
3 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.17%) Perl
3 1 (2.17%) Ruby
3 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 10 (21.74%) CCNP
5 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
6 7 (15.22%) CISM
7 5 (10.87%) CISSP
7 5 (10.87%) OSCP
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
8 3 (6.52%) CCNA
8 3 (6.52%) CREST Certified
8 3 (6.52%) Degree
9 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (2.17%) CEH
10 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (2.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (47.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (19.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 9 (19.57%) NIST
3 7 (15.22%) NCSC
4 3 (6.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Nessus
2 4 (8.70%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) SCCM
4 1 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.17%) WMI
4 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Cisco
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) Juniper
2 9 (19.57%) Palo Alto
2 9 (19.57%) ScienceLogic
3 6 (13.04%) Rapid7
4 5 (10.87%) Sophos
4 5 (10.87%) Splunk
5 3 (6.52%) VMware
6 2 (4.35%) Qualys
6 2 (4.35%) SAP
7 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.17%) Nokia
7 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds