Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 417 420
Rank change year-on-year +59 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 28 39 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 59
10th Percentile £275 £413 £397
25th Percentile £463 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +19.05% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £676 £555
90th Percentile £658 - £638
UK median daily rate £538 £568 £525
% change year-on-year -5.20% +8.10% -1.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning 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 17,229 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.55% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,247 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,039 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 West +27 13 £525 -2.33% 3
Scotland +39 4 £300 -55.02% 3
Midlands +26 3 £260 -60.75% 3
West Midlands +22 3 £260 -60.75% 2
South East +13 3 £500 -13.98% 5
East of England - 3 £750 - 1
North of England +24 2 £488 -2.50% 18
North West +23 2 £488 -2.50% 5
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
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 2 (7.14%) IBM Domino
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) AWS
1 2 (7.14%) Sumo Logic
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.57%) DHCP
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Law
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (32.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Senior
7 2 (7.14%) Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) IT Support
7 2 (7.14%) IT Support Technician
7 2 (7.14%) IT Technician
7 2 (7.14%) Security Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Security Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Support Technician
7 2 (7.14%) Systems Support
8 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Ajax
1 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) JSON
1 1 (3.57%) SOAP
1 1 (3.57%) Web Services
1 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Data Centre
1 13 (46.43%) Private Cloud
2 6 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.57%) CMDB
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (60.71%) Penetration Testing
3 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (46.43%) Resource Management
4 13 (46.43%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 7 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 5 (17.86%) SIEM
7 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 4 (14.29%) Security Operations
8 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
8 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
9 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (7.14%) Information Security
9 2 (7.14%) Patch Management
9 2 (7.14%) Problem Management
9 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (7.14%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) CISSP
3 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) MCSE
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.57%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (46.43%) vSphere
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.57%) Argo
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (3.57%) Istio
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Nessus
2 1 (3.57%) SCCM
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (10.71%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) CyberArk
3 2 (7.14%) Lotus
3 2 (7.14%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Qualys
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow