Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 372 419
Rank change year-on-year +74 +47 +8
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 38 27 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 32
10th Percentile £265 £275 £414
25th Percentile £381 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £645
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -18.60% +22.86%
75th Percentile £520 £538 £676
90th Percentile £574 £660 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +15.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +190.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +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% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North of England +34 16 £510 - 12
North West +29 13 £505 - 1
South West +42 9 £400 -23.81% 5
South East +50 7 £600 +20.00% 23
Scotland +14 5 £275 -8.33% 8
Yorkshire - 2 - - 11
Midlands +20 1 - - 9
West Midlands +12 1 - - 8
North East - 1 £550 -
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 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) Entra ID
2 11 (28.95%) IaaS
2 11 (28.95%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (18.42%) AWS
4 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (47.37%) Firewall
2 14 (36.84%) Network Security
3 11 (28.95%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (7.89%) DNS
5 2 (5.26%) HTTP
6 1 (2.63%) IPsec
6 1 (2.63%) VPN
6 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (28.95%) Telecoms
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.26%) Aviation
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Police
4 2 (5.26%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Security Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) DevOps Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) Architect
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Information Assurance Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Information Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
8 1 (2.63%) Lead
8 1 (2.63%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (5.26%) PKI
2 2 (5.26%) Robotics
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) NHS
3 1 (2.63%) PMI
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (44.74%) Windows
2 13 (34.21%) Windows Server
3 9 (23.68%) Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (36.84%) Risk Assessment
3 12 (31.58%) Business Continuity
3 12 (31.58%) Change Management
3 12 (31.58%) Vulnerability Management
4 11 (28.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (28.95%) High Availability
4 11 (28.95%) Information Security
4 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (21.05%) BCP
5 8 (21.05%) Business Continuity Planning
5 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (21.05%) Project Delivery
6 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.42%) Line Management
6 7 (18.42%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (18.42%) Web Operations
7 6 (15.79%) DevOps
7 6 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 9 (23.68%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) Bash
4 3 (7.89%) Perl
5 2 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Azure Certification
2 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) CISM
3 6 (15.79%) CISSP
3 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) CEH
5 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) CISA
6 1 (2.63%) Degree
6 1 (2.63%) PgMP
6 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) NIST
2 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (34.21%) Active Directory
2 12 (31.58%) vSphere
3 10 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.53%) Docker
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (15.79%) Grafana
2 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.79%) Terraform
3 5 (13.16%) Ansible
4 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.89%) Nessus
6 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
6 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.63%) Packer
7 1 (2.63%) SCCM
7 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.63%) VxRail
7 1 (2.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) VMware
2 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.16%) Tenable
4 4 (10.53%) Qualys
5 2 (5.26%) ForgeRock
5 2 (5.26%) Ribbon
6 1 (2.63%) Dell
6 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow