Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 349 396
Rank change year-on-year +54 +47 +73
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 47 42 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.25% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 40
10th Percentile £375 £429 £418
25th Percentile £500 £508 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -6.25% -17.24%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £723
90th Percentile £715 £934 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.78% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - £71.20
Median hourly rate £45.12 - £72.40
75th Percentile £81.19 - £73.59
90th Percentile £89.23 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.12 - £72.40
% change year-on-year - - +80.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,541 17,047 20,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 84.14% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,211 10,194 14,065
10th Percentile £231 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 2,072 1,252
10th Percentile £14.09 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 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
South East +62 23 £675 -15.63% 181
North of England +30 18 £661 -14.77% 155
North West +20 14 £650 +44.44% 70
South West +32 5 £400 -33.33% 95
Yorkshire +18 4 £700 -36.36% 64
East of England +29 1 £249 -50.20% 110
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.64%) AWS
4 4 (8.51%) GCP
5 3 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) Firewall
2 10 (21.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (8.51%) Ethernet
4 3 (6.38%) Network Security
5 2 (4.26%) DNS
5 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.13%) DHCP
6 1 (2.13%) DWDM
6 1 (2.13%) LAN
6 1 (2.13%) VLAN
6 1 (2.13%) VPN
6 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.13%) Metasploit
1 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Automotive
4 4 (8.51%) Military
4 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.26%) Aviation
5 2 (4.26%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
5 2 (4.26%) Police
5 2 (4.26%) Swedish Language
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Electronics
6 1 (2.13%) Finance
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Senior
2 11 (23.40%) Information Security Specialist
2 11 (23.40%) Information Specialist
2 11 (23.40%) Security Specialist
3 8 (17.02%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 8 (17.02%) Senior Information Security Specialist
3 8 (17.02%) Senior Security Specialist
4 6 (12.77%) Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Lead
4 6 (12.77%) Security Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Security Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Administrator
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
5 5 (10.64%) Security Advisor
6 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (10.64%) JBoss Seam
3 2 (4.26%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 19 (40.43%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.89%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.38%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.26%) Robotics
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.13%) CESG
5 1 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Windows
2 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Security Architecture
2 19 (40.43%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (38.30%) Risk Management
4 17 (36.17%) Information Security
5 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (29.79%) Risk Assessment
6 12 (25.53%) Decision-Making
7 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (21.28%) Information Assurance
8 9 (19.15%) Threat Modelling
9 8 (17.02%) Incident Response
9 8 (17.02%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (14.89%) DevOps
11 6 (12.77%) Migration
11 6 (12.77%) Process Improvement
12 5 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (10.64%) Performance Metrics
12 5 (10.64%) Risk Analysis
12 5 (10.64%) Security Operations
12 5 (10.64%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.26%) SQL
2 1 (2.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.04%) DV Cleared
3 10 (21.28%) CISM
4 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.64%) CISSP
6 2 (4.26%) CCNA
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.26%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) CCNP
7 1 (2.13%) CRISC
7 1 (2.13%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.13%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (23.40%) NCSC
2 10 (21.28%) GDPR
3 3 (6.38%) AUTOSAR
3 3 (6.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.38%) NIST
3 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.13%) COBIT
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) FortiGate
1 2 (4.26%) Grafana
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.26%) Nessus
1 2 (4.26%) SCCM
1 2 (4.26%) WSUS
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Darktrace
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Qualys
3 2 (4.26%) Ribbon
3 2 (4.26%) Tenable
4 1 (2.13%) Arista
4 1 (2.13%) Aruba
4 1 (2.13%) SAP