Vulnerability Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management
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 Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 243 389
Rank change year-on-year -9 +146 -61
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 149 202 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.88% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.99% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 162 106
10th Percentile £375 £413 £393
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +5.57% +12.65%
75th Percentile £600 £642 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -1.82% -2.49% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management 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 17,222 20,406 27,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.58% 89.33% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,282 14,013 19,104
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £375 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,110 1,238 1,365
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £62.63
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%

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 28 May 2024.

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 28 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 +55 68 £450 -21.74% 26
Scotland +36 21 £525 +14.88% 3
Midlands -3 20 £438 -27.45% 13
South West -24 20 £550 +2.33% 10
West Midlands -9 18 £438 -27.08% 4
East of England +12 15 £675 +50.00% 4
North of England -4 11 £567 -2.91% 27
Yorkshire +5 6 £550 - 14
North West +2 5 £659 +11.02% 12
Wales +12 2 £406 -18.75% 1
East Midlands +9 2 £596 -1.65% 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 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.75%) Azure
2 12 (8.05%) AWS
3 5 (3.36%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (2.01%) GCP
6 2 (1.34%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.67%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.67%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.67%) SaaS
7 1 (0.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.12%) Firewall
2 14 (9.40%) Network Security
3 11 (7.38%) DNS
4 10 (6.71%) DHCP
5 4 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.34%) LAN
7 2 (1.34%) WAN
8 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.67%) SCCP
8 1 (0.67%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.67%) VPN
8 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.34%) Tableau
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.34%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 26 (17.45%) Public Sector
2 18 (12.08%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.05%) Legal
4 10 (6.71%) Finance
4 10 (6.71%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.70%) Banking
6 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Electronics
8 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (31.54%) Analyst
2 26 (17.45%) SOC Analyst
3 19 (12.75%) Lead
4 16 (10.74%) Security Analyst
5 14 (9.40%) Consultant
6 13 (8.72%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 13 (8.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (8.05%) Security Consultant
7 12 (8.05%) Security Specialist
7 12 (8.05%) Senior
8 10 (6.71%) IT Security Specialist
8 10 (6.71%) Security Operations Specialist
9 9 (6.04%) Architect
9 9 (6.04%) Security Architect
9 9 (6.04%) Security Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.70%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
10 7 (4.70%) Senior Security Analyst
11 6 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 4 (2.68%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.68%) Kafka
2 1 (0.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.52%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 12 (8.05%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (6.04%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.04%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (6.04%) Security Posture
4 8 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.70%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (4.70%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.68%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.68%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.01%) IoT
8 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.67%) CSOC
9 1 (0.67%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.13%) Windows
2 24 (16.11%) Linux
3 13 (8.72%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.38%) Mac OS X
5 8 (5.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (2.68%) zOS
7 2 (1.34%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (50.34%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (47.65%) SIEM
3 59 (39.60%) Incident Response
4 46 (30.87%) Security Operations
5 44 (29.53%) Information Security
6 30 (20.13%) Incident Management
7 29 (19.46%) Risk Management
8 28 (18.79%) Data Security
9 22 (14.77%) Data Loss Prevention
10 20 (13.42%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 20 (13.42%) Penetration Testing
11 19 (12.75%) Threat Intelligence
12 17 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (11.41%) Use Case
13 16 (10.74%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 15 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
14 15 (10.07%) Project Delivery
14 15 (10.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 14 (9.40%) Application Security
15 14 (9.40%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.67%) C#
2 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.11%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.41%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.70%) CISSP
4 7 (4.70%) ISACA
5 6 (4.03%) Degree
6 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.01%) CISM
7 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CLAS
8 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.67%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.16%) NIST
2 33 (22.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (14.77%) GDPR
4 11 (7.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (7.38%) HIPAA
5 9 (6.04%) COBIT
5 9 (6.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 6 (4.03%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (2.68%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.01%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (1.34%) NCSC
10 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (11.41%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (8.72%) XenApp
3 3 (2.01%) XenDesktop
4 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.67%) Firmware
5 1 (0.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (6.04%) Nessus
2 6 (4.03%) SCCM
3 3 (2.01%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.67%) CASB
5 1 (0.67%) Kibana
5 1 (0.67%) Nagios
5 1 (0.67%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.67%) Terraform
5 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (30.87%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.12%) Qualys
3 20 (13.42%) Varonis
4 16 (10.74%) Forcepoint
4 16 (10.74%) LogRhythm
5 14 (9.40%) VMware
6 13 (8.72%) Citrix
7 12 (8.05%) Splunk
8 8 (5.37%) Ivanti
9 7 (4.70%) Virgin Media
10 4 (2.68%) Cisco
10 4 (2.68%) Darktrace
10 4 (2.68%) F5
11 3 (2.01%) FireEye
11 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.01%) Tanium
11 3 (2.01%) Zscaler
12 2 (1.34%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (1.34%) Rapid7