Vulnerability Assessment Contracts

Vulnerability Assessment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment 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 430 463 598
Rank change year-on-year +33 +135 +105
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 90 119 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 77 91
10th Percentile - £375 £400
25th Percentile £500 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -10.26%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £650
90th Percentile £755 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile - £55.00 -
25th Percentile £26.88 £60.63 £71.20
Median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% -3.31% +80.99%
75th Percentile £74.87 - £73.59
90th Percentile £88.87 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £61.25 £72.40
% change year-on-year +0.40% -15.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Assessment 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 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 +42 85 £588 +6.82% 154
UK excluding London +67 50 £650 +8.33% 123
Work from Home +42 37 £500 -2.91% 121
London +4 31 £525 +0.96% 57
South East +60 27 £663 -17.19% 36
North of England +31 17 £650 -7.14% 23
North West +26 13 £606 -6.73% 10
South West +40 4 £500 -16.67% 21
Yorkshire +11 4 £700 -36.36% 10
Midlands +21 2 £775 +19.23% 16
West Midlands +13 2 £775 +19.23% 10

Vulnerability Assessment
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 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.22%) Azure
2 18 (20.00%) AWS
3 10 (11.11%) GCP
4 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (2.22%) AWS KMS
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.22%) Serverless
6 2 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (24.44%) Firewall
2 13 (14.44%) Intrusion Detection
2 13 (14.44%) Network Security
3 4 (4.44%) DNS
3 4 (4.44%) Ethernet
3 4 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.44%) VPN
4 3 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (3.33%) DWDM
4 3 (3.33%) LAN
4 3 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.11%) DHCP
5 1 (1.11%) VLAN
5 1 (1.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) GitLab
2 4 (4.44%) JIRA
2 4 (4.44%) SonarQube
3 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.33%) Snyk
3 3 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.11%) Metasploit
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.67%) Military
5 5 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Finance
5 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.44%) Automotive
6 4 (4.44%) Police
7 3 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.22%) Aviation
8 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.22%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.11%) Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Electronics
9 1 (1.11%) Law
9 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) Senior
2 14 (15.56%) Security Specialist
3 13 (14.44%) Architect
3 13 (14.44%) Information Security Specialist
3 13 (14.44%) Information Specialist
3 13 (14.44%) Security Architect
3 13 (14.44%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 13 (14.44%) Senior Security Specialist
4 12 (13.33%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 11 (12.22%) Security Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Lead
7 7 (7.78%) Consultant
8 6 (6.67%) Security Consultant
9 5 (5.56%) Administrator
9 5 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Information Security Consultant
9 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
9 5 (5.56%) Security Advisor
9 5 (5.56%) Security Manager
10 4 (4.44%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.56%) JBoss Seam
2 5 (5.56%) JSON
3 2 (2.22%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (1.11%) EDI
4 1 (1.11%) OAuth
4 1 (1.11%) SAML
4 1 (1.11%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Management Information System
2 14 (15.56%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.22%) Robotics
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.11%) CESG
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Linux
2 9 (10.00%) Windows
3 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.22%) Unix
5 1 (1.11%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.56%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (34.44%) Risk Management
3 30 (33.33%) Information Security
4 29 (32.22%) Security Architecture
5 27 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
6 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 18 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 17 (18.89%) DevOps
8 17 (18.89%) Penetration Testing
8 17 (18.89%) Threat Modelling
9 16 (17.78%) SIEM
9 16 (17.78%) Vulnerability Management
10 14 (15.56%) Cloud Security
11 12 (13.33%) Information Assurance
11 12 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 11 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (12.22%) Migration
12 11 (12.22%) Threat Detection
13 10 (11.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.78%) Python
2 9 (10.00%) Bash
3 7 (7.78%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.33%) Perl
4 3 (3.33%) SQL
5 2 (2.22%) C++
5 2 (2.22%) Java
5 2 (2.22%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.22%) Rust
6 1 (1.11%) C
Qualifications
1 37 (41.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 16 (17.78%) CISM
4 14 (15.56%) CISSP
4 14 (15.56%) SC Cleared
5 12 (13.33%) Degree
6 8 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (5.56%) CEH
8 5 (5.56%) SANS
9 4 (4.44%) CCNA
9 4 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (3.33%) CCNP
10 3 (3.33%) JNCIA
10 3 (3.33%) JNCIS
11 2 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.22%) CCSP
11 2 (2.22%) GIAC
11 2 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (18.89%) GDPR
3 14 (15.56%) NIST
4 13 (14.44%) NCSC
5 6 (6.67%) PCI DSS
6 5 (5.56%) HIPAA
7 4 (4.44%) QA
8 3 (3.33%) AUTOSAR
8 3 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (2.22%) GRC
10 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) Terraform
2 4 (4.44%) Ansible
2 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) CASB
4 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.22%) Nessus
5 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.11%) SCCM
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) Darktrace
3 4 (4.44%) Cisco
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) Planview
3 4 (4.44%) Tenable
4 3 (3.33%) Arista
4 3 (3.33%) Coverity
4 3 (3.33%) Veracode
5 2 (2.22%) Alibaba
5 2 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.22%) McAfee
5 2 (2.22%) Qualys
5 2 (2.22%) Ribbon
5 2 (2.22%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) Symantec
5 2 (2.22%) TOWER Software
5 2 (2.22%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) VMware