Nmap Contract Job Trends

Network Mapper (Nmap)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Nmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 530 561
Rank change year-on-year -135 +31 +89
Contract jobs citing Nmap 1 23 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.070% 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.017% 0.51% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 2
10th Percentile - £500 £564
25th Percentile - £563 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -28.13%
75th Percentile - £688 £584
90th Percentile - - £586
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £575
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Nmap falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,939 4,552 4,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.97% 13.93% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,935 2,951 3,121
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 84 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £30.63 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.25 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +130.09% -26.14% -30.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.40 £60.63
90th Percentile £89.59 £70.93 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £24.70 £38.50
% change year-on-year +163.21% -35.86% -16.63%

Nmap
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Nmap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Nmap job vacancy trend in the UK

Nmap
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nmap

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Nmap

Nmap
Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nmap within the UK over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. 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
Work from Home -69 1 £550 -15.38% 6

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes