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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 243 254
Rank change year-on-year +25 +11 +123
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 123 151 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.73% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.87% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 112 159
10th Percentile £265 £377 £411
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £644
90th Percentile £700 £748 £745
UK median daily rate £537 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +0.33% -2.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £27.73 - -
25th Percentile £28.03 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £29.51 - £25.00
75th Percentile £31.99 - £27.50
90th Percentile £32.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.49 - £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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 +52 61 £525 +16.67% 207
South West +39 15 £400 -27.27% 77
North of England +15 14 £600 +5.82% 157
Scotland -1 13 £300 -42.86% 40
East of England +29 11 £475 -29.63% 87
Midlands +5 11 £575 +12.20% 96
North West +15 10 £500 -24.07% 77
West Midlands +8 10 £625 +42.86% 51
Yorkshire +15 2 - - 61
North East - 2 £688 - 20
East Midlands +6 1 £300 -52.00% 38
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 (4.07%) Apache
2 2 (1.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) 1Password
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.20%) Azure
2 13 (10.57%) AWS
3 11 (8.94%) GCP
4 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.25%) Akamai
5 4 (3.25%) Google Workspace
5 4 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.44%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.63%) SonarCloud
8 1 (0.81%) Apigee
8 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.81%) IaaS
8 1 (0.81%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.81%) SaaS
8 1 (0.81%) Serverless
8 1 (0.81%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.82%) Firewall
2 14 (11.38%) Network Security
3 6 (4.88%) DNS
3 6 (4.88%) VPN
4 5 (4.07%) DHCP
4 5 (4.07%) FTP
4 5 (4.07%) SMTP
4 5 (4.07%) Telnet
5 3 (2.44%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.44%) tcpdump
5 3 (2.44%) WAN
6 2 (1.63%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.63%) Modbus
6 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.81%) LAN
7 1 (0.81%) MPLS
7 1 (0.81%) Wireless
7 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.69%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.44%) Power BI
3 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.07%) JIRA
2 2 (1.63%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.63%) Snyk
3 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.81%) GitLab
3 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.45%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.76%) Finance
5 8 (6.50%) Legal
6 6 (4.88%) Banking
7 4 (3.25%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.63%) Aviation
9 2 (1.63%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Police
9 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Swedish Language
9 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
10 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (16.26%) Analyst
2 14 (11.38%) Security Engineer
3 11 (8.94%) Security Analyst
4 10 (8.13%) Security Manager
5 8 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.50%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.69%) Security Specialist
6 7 (5.69%) SIEM Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) Architect
7 6 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 6 (4.88%) Security Architect
7 6 (4.88%) Security Project Manager
8 5 (4.07%) Administrator
8 5 (4.07%) Consultant
8 5 (4.07%) Lead
8 5 (4.07%) Security Consultant
8 5 (4.07%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 4 (3.25%) Auditor
9 4 (3.25%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (3.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) JSON
1 6 (4.88%) REST
2 2 (1.63%) LDAP
3 1 (0.81%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.81%) Kafka
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.81%) OAuth
3 1 (0.81%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.81%) RESTful
3 1 (0.81%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.45%) Security Posture
2 13 (10.57%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (10.57%) Onboarding
3 12 (9.76%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.88%) CSOC
6 6 (4.88%) Operational Technology
7 4 (3.25%) SCADA
7 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.63%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.63%) Robotics
9 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.89%) Windows
2 17 (13.82%) Linux
3 13 (10.57%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.25%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (44.72%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (30.89%) Incident Response
3 35 (28.46%) SIEM
4 32 (26.02%) Security Operations
5 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (20.33%) Information Security
7 23 (18.70%) Risk Management
8 19 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (14.63%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 16 (13.01%) Cloud Security
11 14 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (10.57%) Incident Management
12 13 (10.57%) Threat Intelligence
13 12 (9.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 12 (9.76%) ITIL
13 12 (9.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 11 (8.94%) Agile
14 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (8.94%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 9 (7.32%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.76%) Python
2 8 (6.50%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.69%) Bash
4 2 (1.63%) Perl
4 2 (1.63%) SQL
5 1 (0.81%) Java
5 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 30 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 22 (17.89%) CISM
3 22 (17.89%) CISSP
4 13 (10.57%) Degree
5 8 (6.50%) CISA
5 8 (6.50%) GIAC
6 6 (4.88%) CEH
6 6 (4.88%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.25%) OSCP
8 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.44%) CISMP
8 3 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.63%) ISACA
9 2 (1.63%) PMP
9 2 (1.63%) SANS
10 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.26%) NIST
2 18 (14.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.13%) GDPR
4 8 (6.50%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
5 6 (4.88%) NCSC
6 5 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (3.25%) COBIT
8 3 (2.44%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (1.63%) GRC
9 2 (1.63%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (1.63%) SLA
10 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.81%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.81%) QA
10 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.07%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) NFS
2 5 (4.07%) Samba
3 4 (3.25%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.32%) Ansible
2 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.50%) Nessus
2 8 (6.50%) yum
3 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.07%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (4.07%) Terraform
5 4 (3.25%) FortiGate
5 4 (3.25%) SCCM
6 3 (2.44%) Grafana
6 3 (2.44%) QRadar
6 3 (2.44%) WSUS
7 1 (0.81%) Argo
7 1 (0.81%) CASB
7 1 (0.81%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.81%) Istio
7 1 (0.81%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.81%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.20%) Qualys
3 11 (8.94%) Google
3 11 (8.94%) Tenable
4 9 (7.32%) Splunk
5 8 (6.50%) Rapid7
5 8 (6.50%) VMware
6 7 (5.69%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.88%) Cisco
7 6 (4.88%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.07%) CyberArk
9 4 (3.25%) CheckPoint
9 4 (3.25%) Citrix
9 4 (3.25%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.44%) HP
10 3 (2.44%) IBM
10 3 (2.44%) Imperva
11 2 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.63%) Meraki
11 2 (1.63%) SolarWinds