Nmap Contracts

Network Mapper (Nmap)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Nmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Nmap 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 519 575 710
Rank change year-on-year +56 +135 +135
Contract jobs citing Nmap 1 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.016% 0.013%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.022% 0.14% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £350 £513
25th Percentile - £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £563 £698
Median % change year-on-year - -19.35% +50.89%
75th Percentile - £584 £784
90th Percentile - £600 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate - £588 £650
% change year-on-year - -9.62% -

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 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nmap in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nmap.

Daily rate trend for Nmap in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nmap.

Hourly rate trend for Nmap in the UK

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Top 2 Contract 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 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
England +51 1 - - 3
Work from Home +39 1 - - 4

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus