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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 639 785
Rank change year-on-year +94 +146 -92
Contract jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management 39 58 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.10% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.12% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 43
10th Percentile £517 £371 £430
25th Percentile £550 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £644 £700
90th Percentile £725 £817 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £567 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -5.44% +14.21% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Top 12 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 20 June 2024. 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 +73 33 £600 -0.99% 24
London +88 18 £625 -3.85% 21
UK excluding London +8 15 £567 -5.44% 5
Work from Home +98 13 £613 +3.27% 9
South East +18 5 £540 +16.76% 2
East of England +6 4 £700 +64.76%
North of England +2 3 £564 -7.01% 1
North West +2 3 £564 -7.01% 1
Midlands +9 2 £567 -10.43%
Scotland +48 1 - -
West Midlands +14 1 - -
East Midlands +3 1 £567 -8.84%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.56%) AWS
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.56%) GCP
3 1 (2.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) DHCP
2 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) SCCP
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Burp Suite
General
1 12 (30.77%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Security Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Consultant
2 5 (12.82%) Security Consultant
2 5 (12.82%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Information Security Consultant
3 4 (10.26%) Security Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Lead Security Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Vulnerability Manager
6 1 (2.56%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior
6 1 (2.56%) Vulnerability Management Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (12.82%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (5.13%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (97.44%) Vulnerability Management
2 19 (48.72%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (46.15%) Security Operations
4 17 (43.59%) Incident Response
5 14 (35.90%) Information Security
6 13 (33.33%) Application Security
7 11 (28.21%) Threat Intelligence
8 10 (25.64%) Security Testing
8 10 (25.64%) Static Application Security Testing
8 10 (25.64%) Threat Modelling
9 9 (23.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
10 8 (20.51%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
11 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (17.95%) Risk Management
11 7 (17.95%) SIEM
12 6 (15.38%) Agile
12 6 (15.38%) OSINT
12 6 (15.38%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) CISM
2 6 (15.38%) CISSP
2 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) CRISC
4 2 (5.13%) GCIA
4 2 (5.13%) GCIH
5 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.56%) CCSK
5 1 (2.56%) CEH
5 1 (2.56%) CISA
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.82%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.26%) GDPR
2 4 (10.26%) NIST
3 3 (7.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Nessus
1 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
1 2 (5.13%) systemd
1 2 (5.13%) yum
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.56%) Nexpose
2 1 (2.56%) Nmap
2 1 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Qualys
2 5 (12.82%) Varonis
3 4 (10.26%) Darktrace
4 3 (7.69%) Checkmarx
4 3 (7.69%) Rapid7
4 3 (7.69%) Veracode
5 2 (5.13%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) Apple
6 1 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk