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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 485 508
Rank change year-on-year +57 +23 +199
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 122 89 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.24% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 62 136
10th Percentile £433 £375 £400
25th Percentile £500 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -7.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £621
90th Percentile £738 £775 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 £68.75 £71.20
Median hourly rate £61.50 £72.50 £72.40
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +0.15% +80.99%
75th Percentile £88.87 £76.25 £73.92
90th Percentile - - £74.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 - £72.40

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 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
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% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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 5 July 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 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

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Top 13 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 5 July 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 +96 116 £588 +17.50% 355
UK excluding London +66 60 £525 -2.33% 201
London +51 51 £613 +31.72% 185
Work from Home +46 45 £500 - 181
South East +62 31 £675 +42.11% 33
North of England +21 19 £563 +18.42% 51
North West +17 16 £563 +18.42% 25
South West +27 6 £400 -33.33% 28
Midlands +11 3 £450 +5.88% 41
Yorkshire - 3 - - 22
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 13
East of England +24 1 £249 -50.20% 18
West Midlands +7 1 - - 28

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 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.15%) Azure
2 32 (26.23%) AWS
3 23 (18.85%) GCP
4 14 (11.48%) GitHub
5 7 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.64%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Stack
7 2 (1.64%) Serverless
7 2 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.82%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.13%) Firewall
2 17 (13.93%) Intrusion Detection
3 16 (13.11%) Network Security
4 4 (3.28%) Ethernet
4 4 (3.28%) VPN
4 4 (3.28%) WAN
5 3 (2.46%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.46%) DNS
5 3 (2.46%) DWDM
5 3 (2.46%) LAN
5 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.64%) Internet
6 2 (1.64%) SSL
7 1 (0.82%) DMZ
7 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.82%) SSH
7 1 (0.82%) Telnet
7 1 (0.82%) VLAN
7 1 (0.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
1 1 (0.82%) Looker
1 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (12.30%) Burp Suite
1 15 (12.30%) Metasploit
1 15 (12.30%) SonarQube
2 4 (3.28%) JIRA
3 3 (2.46%) GitLab
3 3 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.64%) Snyk
5 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.85%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.38%) Military
5 5 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.10%) Finance
5 5 (4.10%) Police
6 4 (3.28%) Automotive
6 4 (3.28%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (3.28%) Marketing
6 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.46%) Legal
8 2 (1.64%) Aviation
8 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.64%) Swedish Language
9 1 (0.82%) Banking
9 1 (0.82%) Electronics
9 1 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (25.41%) Security Engineer
2 24 (19.67%) Senior
3 19 (15.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 16 (13.11%) Lead
5 15 (12.30%) Architect
5 15 (12.30%) Security Architect
6 11 (9.02%) Information Security Specialist
6 11 (9.02%) Information Specialist
6 11 (9.02%) Security Specialist
7 9 (7.38%) Analyst
7 9 (7.38%) Consultant
8 8 (6.56%) Security Consultant
8 8 (6.56%) Security Manager
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Information Security Specialist
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Security Specialist
9 7 (5.74%) Network Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Information Security Consultant
10 6 (4.92%) Security Advisor
10 6 (4.92%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (6.56%) JBoss Seam
3 3 (2.46%) JSON
4 2 (1.64%) Node.js
4 2 (1.64%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.82%) EDI
5 1 (0.82%) OAuth
5 1 (0.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.87%) Management Information System
2 17 (13.93%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.10%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) CESG
6 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.64%) PKI
6 2 (1.64%) Robotics
6 2 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.82%) CMDB
7 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.82%) IoT
7 1 (0.82%) Life Science
7 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.84%) Windows
2 8 (6.56%) Linux
3 7 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (31.15%) Penetration Testing
3 37 (30.33%) Risk Management
3 37 (30.33%) Security Architecture
4 35 (28.69%) Information Security
5 32 (26.23%) Cloud Security
5 32 (26.23%) Risk Assessment
6 28 (22.95%) Incident Response
7 27 (22.13%) Threat Modelling
8 25 (20.49%) Vulnerability Management
9 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.85%) SIEM
10 22 (18.03%) Decision-Making
10 22 (18.03%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 21 (17.21%) CI/CD
11 21 (17.21%) DevOps
12 20 (16.39%) Secure Coding
12 20 (16.39%) Security Testing
12 20 (16.39%) Static Application Security Testing
13 19 (15.57%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.13%) Python
2 19 (15.57%) Bash
3 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.46%) C++
4 3 (2.46%) Java
4 3 (2.46%) Kotlin
4 3 (2.46%) Rust
5 2 (1.64%) Perl
6 1 (0.82%) C
6 1 (0.82%) Go
6 1 (0.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (47.54%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.41%) DV Cleared
3 29 (23.77%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.11%) CISSP
4 16 (13.11%) CREST Certified
5 15 (12.30%) OSCP
6 14 (11.48%) CISM
7 13 (10.66%) Tigerscheme
8 10 (8.20%) CHECK Team Member
9 8 (6.56%) Degree
10 7 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (4.10%) CCNP
12 5 (4.10%) SANS
13 4 (3.28%) CEH
13 4 (3.28%) GIAC
13 4 (3.28%) PMP
14 3 (2.46%) CCNA
14 3 (2.46%) JNCIA
14 3 (2.46%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (22.95%) NCSC
3 23 (18.85%) GDPR
4 19 (15.57%) NIST
5 10 (8.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (7.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (7.38%) PCI DSS
7 8 (6.56%) HIPAA
8 6 (4.92%) QA
9 3 (2.46%) AUTOSAR
9 3 (2.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (2.46%) GRC
10 2 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.82%) COBIT
11 1 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.82%) RMADS
11 1 (0.82%) SLA
11 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.82%) Firmware
3 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (11.48%) Nmap
2 6 (4.92%) Nessus
2 6 (4.92%) Terraform
3 4 (3.28%) SCCM
3 4 (3.28%) WSUS
4 3 (2.46%) Ansible
4 3 (2.46%) Grafana
5 2 (1.64%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (13.11%) Microsoft
1 16 (13.11%) Veracode
2 9 (7.38%) Darktrace
3 6 (4.92%) Qualys
3 6 (4.92%) Tenable
4 5 (4.10%) Cisco
5 4 (3.28%) Planview
6 3 (2.46%) Alibaba
6 3 (2.46%) Arista
7 2 (1.64%) Coverity
7 2 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.64%) McAfee
7 2 (1.64%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.64%) Ribbon
7 2 (1.64%) SAP
7 2 (1.64%) Symantec
7 2 (1.64%) Trend Micro
7 2 (1.64%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.82%) Google
8 1 (0.82%) VMware