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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 363 395
Rank change year-on-year +70 +32 +31
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 42 34 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 30
10th Percentile £265 £313 £411
25th Percentile £430 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £620
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -17.34% +18.10%
75th Percentile £567 £538 £676
90th Percentile £618 £642 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -2.18% +4.76%
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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
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% - +3.04%
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 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +26 19 £510 +4.62% 16
North West +17 14 £510 +4.62% 4
South East +46 8 £575 +24.32% 11
South West +34 8 £485 -9.35% 4
Scotland +10 5 £275 -8.33% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £500 - 12
West Midlands +16 2 - - 5
Midlands +13 2 - - 6
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 (26.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) Entra ID
2 11 (26.19%) IaaS
2 11 (26.19%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (4.76%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (50.00%) Firewall
2 17 (40.48%) Network Security
3 11 (26.19%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (11.90%) DNS
5 3 (7.14%) VPN
6 2 (4.76%) HTTP
6 2 (4.76%) SSL
6 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.38%) IPsec
7 1 (2.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.52%) GitLab
3 3 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Selenium
4 1 (2.38%) Snyk
4 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (26.19%) Telecoms
2 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.76%) Aviation
4 2 (4.76%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Police
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Swedish Language
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Security Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Administrator
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps Administrator
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 3 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Information Assurance Specialist
7 2 (4.76%) Information Specialist
7 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (4.76%) PKI
2 2 (4.76%) Robotics
2 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) NHS
3 1 (2.38%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (40.48%) Windows
2 13 (30.95%) Windows Server
3 9 (21.43%) Linux
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 12 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 12 (28.57%) Change Management
3 12 (28.57%) Information Security
4 11 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (26.19%) High Availability
4 11 (26.19%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 9 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 9 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 8 (19.05%) BCP
6 8 (19.05%) Business Continuity Planning
6 8 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (19.05%) Penetration Testing
6 8 (19.05%) Project Delivery
6 8 (19.05%) SIEM
7 7 (16.67%) DevOps
7 7 (16.67%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 11 (26.19%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 3 (7.14%) Perl
5 2 (4.76%) Java
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Azure Certification
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.29%) CISM
4 6 (14.29%) CISSP
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.76%) CEH
5 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) CISA
6 1 (2.38%) CRISC
6 1 (2.38%) Degree
6 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.38%) PgMP
6 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) NIST
2 8 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (9.52%) GDPR
4 2 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (4.76%) NCSC
4 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Active Directory
2 12 (28.57%) vSphere
3 10 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (14.29%) Docker
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (21.43%) Grafana
3 8 (19.05%) Ansible
3 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.05%) Terraform
4 7 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.14%) Nessus
6 2 (4.76%) FortiGate
6 2 (4.76%) Kustomize
6 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.76%) Puppet
7 1 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.38%) Packer
7 1 (2.38%) SCCM
7 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.38%) VxRail
7 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 16 (38.10%) VMware
3 6 (14.29%) Qualys
4 3 (7.14%) Tenable
5 2 (4.76%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.76%) Ribbon
5 2 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.38%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow