Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 427 478
Rank change year-on-year +53 +51 -68
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 24 28 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 31
10th Percentile £375 £392 £313
25th Percentile £444 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +3.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £572
90th Percentile £681 £641 £638
UK median daily rate £518 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -5.05% +3.81% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation 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 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +32 9 £425 -33.33% 4
Scotland - 9 £515 - 1
Wales +19 3 £643 +42.78% 2
North of England +29 2 £834 +99.64% 4
Yorkshire +18 1 £1,100 +158.82%
North West +18 1 £567 +62.00% 4
East Midlands +16 1 £567 +0.22% 2
Midlands +15 1 £567 +3.09% 3
Vulnerability Remediation
UK

Vulnerability Remediation
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.50%) SaaS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DHCP
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
1 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.17%) SSL
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MySQL
1 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Burp Suite
1 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.17%) AppScan
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 9 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Front Office
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
1 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 9 (37.50%) Security Analyst
2 8 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Security Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Security Architect
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Security Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 3 (12.50%) Unix
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Information Security
1 12 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 11 (45.83%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (45.83%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (45.83%) SIEM
3 10 (41.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 9 (37.50%) Business Impact Analysis
4 9 (37.50%) Impact Analysis
4 9 (37.50%) Incident Management
4 9 (37.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 9 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
4 9 (37.50%) Technical Analysis
4 9 (37.50%) Use Case
5 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Application Security
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Line Management
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL
8 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 2 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) PHP
4 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.33%) SANS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 9 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) ISO 9001
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (12.50%) SLA
3 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (4.17%) COBIT
4 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (12.50%) vSphere
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (12.50%) WSUS
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Graylog
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Nagios
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) HP Fortify
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) Checkmarx
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys
4 1 (4.17%) Veracode