Vulnerability Analyst Contracts

Vulnerability Analyst
UK

The median Vulnerability Analyst daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 686 837
Rank change year-on-year +124 +151 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Analyst 23 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.012% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.013% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 10
10th Percentile £418 £361 £412
25th Percentile £463 £390 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +18.75%
75th Percentile £566 £594 £573
90th Percentile £588 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Vulnerability Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Vulnerability Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Analyst in the UK

Vulnerability Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Analyst in the UK

Vulnerability Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Analyst over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Analyst in the UK

Vulnerability Analyst
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +110 14 £575 +12.20% 5
Work from Home +133 10 £475 -20.83%
London +94 9 £575 +54.36%
UK excluding London +74 7 £500 -16.67% 3
Scotland - 6 £500 -
Midlands +32 1 £425 -29.17% 1
West Midlands +24 1 £425 -29.17%

Vulnerability Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Vulnerability Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Vulnerability Analyst in the job title.

1 22 (95.65%) Vulnerability Management
2 11 (47.83%) Qualys
2 11 (47.83%) Information Security
3 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
4 8 (34.78%) Security Operations
5 6 (26.09%) Power BI
5 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
5 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
5 6 (26.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 6 (26.09%) CISM
5 6 (26.09%) CISSP
5 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (21.74%) SIEM
6 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (21.74%) Finance
6 5 (21.74%) Security Posture
6 5 (21.74%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (21.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (17.39%) SOAR
7 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
8 3 (13.04%) Security Patching
8 3 (13.04%) Risk Assessment
8 3 (13.04%) Rapid7

Vulnerability Analyst Skill Set
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 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Publishing
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Vulnerability Management
2 11 (47.83%) Information Security
3 8 (34.78%) Security Operations
4 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) SIEM
5 5 (21.74%) Threat Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 4 (17.39%) SOAR
6 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
7 3 (13.04%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (13.04%) Security Patching
7 3 (13.04%) Threat Detection
7 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 2 (8.70%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) CISM
1 6 (26.09%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Nessus
1 1 (4.35%) Nmap
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Qualys
2 3 (13.04%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.35%) Sophos
3 1 (4.35%) Veeam