Threat and Vulnerability Management Contracts

Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Threat and Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Threat and Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 543 647
Rank change year-on-year +70 +104 +143
Contract jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management 50 36 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.085% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.098% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 45
10th Percentile £400 £503 £380
25th Percentile £435 £557 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +15.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £753 £700 £633
90th Percentile £850 £725 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £559 £606
% change year-on-year -10.47% -7.84% +10.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,783 36,704 51,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 86.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,188 23,629 35,390
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,440 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Threat and Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management.

Daily rate trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management.

Hourly rate trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +66 41 £550 -15.38% 57
London +51 24 £585 -11.70% 29
UK excluding London +51 19 £500 -10.47% 34
Work from Home +45 19 £550 -12.00% 20
South East +48 9 £500 -7.41% 12
South West +40 3 £425 -32.27% 4
East of England +24 3 £698 -0.39% 4
North of England +22 2 £725 +29.81% 10
North West +13 2 £725 +27.87% 7
Scotland +6 2 - - 1

Threat and Vulnerability Management
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:

Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Azure
2 13 (26.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.00%) Azure AI
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.00%) SaaS
5 2 (4.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.00%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) Network Security
2 8 (16.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) HTTP
3 1 (2.00%) Modbus
3 1 (2.00%) SMTP
3 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Legal
4 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) French Language
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Security Engineer
1 8 (16.00%) Security Manager
2 5 (10.00%) Analyst
2 5 (10.00%) Architect
2 5 (10.00%) Consultant
3 4 (8.00%) Information Security Consultant
3 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Lead
3 4 (8.00%) Operational Security Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Operations Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Security Consultant
3 4 (8.00%) Security Operations Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Security Technical Consultant
3 4 (8.00%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (8.00%) Technical Consultant
3 4 (8.00%) Technical Security Consultant
4 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Information Manager
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.00%) Security Posture
2 9 (18.00%) Cyber Threat
2 9 (18.00%) Management Information System
3 7 (14.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.00%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (4.00%) Insider Threat
5 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.00%) PKI
5 2 (4.00%) SCADA
5 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.00%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (98.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 27 (54.00%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (52.00%) Security Operations
4 25 (50.00%) SIEM
5 22 (44.00%) Cloud Security
6 21 (42.00%) Incident Response
7 18 (36.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 14 (28.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 14 (28.00%) Information Security
9 13 (26.00%) Penetration Testing
10 12 (24.00%) Data Loss Prevention
10 12 (24.00%) SOAR
11 9 (18.00%) Privileged Access Management
11 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (18.00%) Risk Management
12 8 (16.00%) DevOps
12 8 (16.00%) Threat Detection
13 7 (14.00%) DevSecOps
13 7 (14.00%) Threat Analysis
13 7 (14.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) Python
2 7 (14.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) CISSP
2 9 (18.00%) GCIH
3 8 (16.00%) Degree
4 7 (14.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (14.00%) CCSP
4 7 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (10.00%) CEH
6 5 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (6.00%) CISMP
7 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (4.00%) CISM
8 2 (4.00%) GCFA
8 2 (4.00%) GCIA
8 2 (4.00%) GIAC
8 2 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.00%) CCNA
9 1 (2.00%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (38.00%) NIST
2 16 (32.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (16.00%) SLA
4 3 (6.00%) GRC
4 3 (6.00%) SOC 2
5 2 (4.00%) GDPR
5 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (2.00%) FedRAMP
6 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.00%) NCSC
6 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) CSIRT
1 2 (4.00%) QRadar
1 2 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (2.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Splunk
3 4 (8.00%) Google
4 3 (6.00%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (6.00%) Rapid7
5 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco
6 1 (2.00%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.00%) Kenna
6 1 (2.00%) McAfee
6 1 (2.00%) Qualys
6 1 (2.00%) Symantec