Vulnerability Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 243 268
Rank change year-on-year +33 +25 +117
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 125 154 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 0.74% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.88% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 118 151
10th Percentile £325 £377 £413
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -7.05% +5.57%
75th Percentile £612 £599 £650
90th Percentile £650 £704 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management 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 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +37 66 £550 +22.22% 60
South West +22 16 £413 -25.00% 24
North of England +16 16 £500 -10.47% 53
Midlands +11 12 £625 +42.86% 13
Scotland -3 12 £363 -29.61% 17
West Midlands +7 11 £663 +51.43% 4
North West +16 10 £500 -11.82% 36
East of England +27 5 £745 +8.36% 16
Yorkshire +5 4 - - 13
North East - 2 £688 - 5
East Midlands +13 1 £300 -49.66% 9
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
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 5 (4.00%) Apache
2 2 (1.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.60%) Azure
2 15 (12.00%) AWS
3 12 (9.60%) GCP
4 7 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.80%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.20%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.40%) Akamai
7 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.60%) SonarCloud
9 1 (0.80%) Apigee
9 1 (0.80%) IaaS
9 1 (0.80%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.80%) Serverless
9 1 (0.80%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.00%) Firewall
2 12 (9.60%) Network Security
3 9 (7.20%) DNS
4 8 (6.40%) DHCP
5 6 (4.80%) VPN
6 5 (4.00%) FTP
6 5 (4.00%) SMTP
6 5 (4.00%) Telnet
7 3 (2.40%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.40%) tcpdump
7 3 (2.40%) WAN
8 2 (1.60%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.60%) Modbus
8 2 (1.60%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.80%) BGP
9 1 (0.80%) LAN
9 1 (0.80%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.60%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.40%) Power BI
3 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) JIRA
2 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.60%) GitLab
2 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.60%) Snyk
3 1 (0.80%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (17.60%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.40%) Finance
5 8 (6.40%) Banking
6 7 (5.60%) Legal
7 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.20%) Retail Banking
8 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.40%) Electronics
9 3 (2.40%) Marketing
10 2 (1.60%) Aviation
10 2 (1.60%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Police
10 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Swedish Language
11 1 (0.80%) Retail
11 1 (0.80%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 19 (15.20%) Analyst
2 11 (8.80%) Security Engineer
3 10 (8.00%) Security Analyst
4 9 (7.20%) Security Manager
5 8 (6.40%) Administrator
5 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 7 (5.60%) SIEM Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Lead
7 6 (4.80%) Security Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Security Project Manager
7 6 (4.80%) Senior
7 6 (4.80%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Consultant
8 5 (4.00%) Security Consultant
8 5 (4.00%) Service Manager
9 4 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.20%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) JSON
1 6 (4.80%) REST
2 2 (1.60%) LDAP
3 1 (0.80%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.80%) Kafka
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.80%) OAuth
3 1 (0.80%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.80%) RESTful
3 1 (0.80%) SAML
3 1 (0.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Security Posture
2 15 (12.00%) Onboarding
3 14 (11.20%) Management Information System
4 12 (9.60%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (8.80%) Data Centre
6 7 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.60%) Operational Technology
7 6 (4.80%) CSOC
8 4 (3.20%) SCADA
9 3 (2.40%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.60%) Robotics
10 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.80%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.00%) Windows
2 17 (13.60%) Linux
3 16 (12.80%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.20%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.40%) Unix
7 1 (0.80%) Android
7 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (46.40%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (29.60%) Incident Response
3 34 (27.20%) SIEM
4 31 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (22.40%) Security Operations
6 21 (16.80%) Risk Management
7 19 (15.20%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 18 (14.40%) Information Security
8 18 (14.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (13.60%) Cloud Security
10 16 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.00%) ITIL
12 14 (11.20%) Threat Intelligence
13 11 (8.80%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 11 (8.80%) Incident Management
13 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 11 (8.80%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 10 (8.00%) Project Management
14 10 (8.00%) Task Automation
14 10 (8.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.60%) Python
2 11 (8.80%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.40%) Bash
4 2 (1.60%) Perl
4 2 (1.60%) SQL
5 1 (0.80%) Java
5 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 30 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.60%) CISSP
4 17 (13.60%) CISM
5 15 (12.00%) Degree
6 9 (7.20%) DV Cleared
7 8 (6.40%) CISA
7 8 (6.40%) GIAC
8 7 (5.60%) CEH
9 6 (4.80%) Master's Degree
10 5 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.40%) CISMP
11 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.40%) ISACA
11 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.40%) SANS
11 3 (2.40%) SSCP
12 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.20%) NIST
2 11 (8.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (7.20%) GDPR
4 6 (4.80%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.20%) COBIT
5 4 (3.20%) NCSC
5 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.40%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (1.60%) SLA
8 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.80%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.80%) PMO
8 1 (0.80%) QA
8 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.00%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) NFS
2 5 (4.00%) Samba
3 4 (3.20%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.20%) Ansible
2 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.40%) yum
3 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.60%) SCCM
4 6 (4.80%) Nessus
4 6 (4.80%) Terraform
5 5 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.20%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.20%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.40%) Grafana
7 3 (2.40%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (2.40%) QRadar
7 3 (2.40%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 2 (1.60%) WSUS
9 1 (0.80%) Argo
9 1 (0.80%) CASB
9 1 (0.80%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.80%) Istio
9 1 (0.80%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.20%) Qualys
3 11 (8.80%) Google
4 10 (8.00%) Tenable
5 9 (7.20%) Splunk
5 9 (7.20%) VMware
6 7 (5.60%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.80%) Cisco
7 6 (4.80%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.80%) Rapid7
8 5 (4.00%) CheckPoint
8 5 (4.00%) CyberArk
9 4 (3.20%) Citrix
9 4 (3.20%) LogRhythm
9 4 (3.20%) McAfee
9 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
9 4 (3.20%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.40%) IBM
10 3 (2.40%) SAP
10 3 (2.40%) Symantec