Vulnerability Assessment Contracts

Vulnerability Assessment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 593 700
Rank change year-on-year +114 +107 -69
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 119 119 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 90 107
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% +30.00%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £713
90th Percentile £825 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £725
% change year-on-year - -17.24% +61.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 £71.20 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +80.99% -37.50%
75th Percentile - £73.59 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £72.40 -
% change year-on-year -15.39% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Assessment is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,562 53,490 80,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.88% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,188 37,115 56,434
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,451 1,742 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%

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

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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 2024.

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 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

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Top 14 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 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 +134 100 £550 - 45
London +119 65 £520 -0.95% 23
UK excluding London +48 46 £600 - 25
Work from Home +102 36 £515 +3.00% 22
South East +23 13 £800 +33.33% 7
Scotland +48 12 £515 +0.49%
South West +13 10 £600 - 4
North of England +29 5 £700 +55.56% 2
North West +27 4 £650 +44.44% 2
West Midlands +22 3 £650 -10.34% 4
Midlands +21 3 £650 -8.77% 4
East of England +6 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +26 1 £1,100 +76.00%
Wales - 1 £145 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.68%) Apache
1 2 (1.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.97%) Azure
2 15 (12.61%) AWS
3 5 (4.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (3.36%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.52%) GCP
6 2 (1.68%) GitHub
6 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.68%) PaaS
6 2 (1.68%) SaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.84%) Figma
7 1 (0.84%) IaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (28.57%) Firewall
2 28 (23.53%) Network Security
3 17 (14.29%) BGP
4 16 (13.45%) MPLS
5 10 (8.40%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (8.40%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (6.72%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (6.72%) IOS XR
6 8 (6.72%) RSVP
7 6 (5.04%) 5G
7 6 (5.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 6 (5.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (5.04%) Wireless
8 5 (4.20%) VPN
9 4 (3.36%) DNS
9 4 (3.36%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (3.36%) TCP/IP
9 4 (3.36%) WAN
10 3 (2.52%) LAN
10 3 (2.52%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (11.76%) Git
2 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.68%) JIRA
3 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.84%) MSI
4 1 (0.84%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.85%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Finance
6 7 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.36%) Electronics
7 4 (3.36%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.36%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.52%) Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Automotive
9 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.68%) Marketing
9 2 (1.68%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.84%) Advertising
10 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Law
10 1 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (26.89%) Analyst
2 22 (18.49%) Security Analyst
3 21 (17.65%) Network Engineer
4 15 (12.61%) Design Engineer
4 15 (12.61%) Network Design Engineer
5 14 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 10 (8.40%) Security Engineer
7 9 (7.56%) Consultant
8 8 (6.72%) Administrator
9 6 (5.04%) Lead
9 6 (5.04%) Network Analyst
9 6 (5.04%) Network Security Analyst
9 6 (5.04%) Senior
9 6 (5.04%) Server Administrator
10 5 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Senior Security Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) SOC Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Windows Administrator
10 5 (4.20%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.92%) JSON
1 13 (10.92%) NETCONF
1 13 (10.92%) XML
1 13 (10.92%) YANG
2 2 (1.68%) LDAP
2 2 (1.68%) Middleware
2 2 (1.68%) OpenID
2 2 (1.68%) SAML
3 1 (0.84%) CSS
3 1 (0.84%) EDI
3 1 (0.84%) Flutter
3 1 (0.84%) HTML
3 1 (0.84%) Jest
3 1 (0.84%) Node.js
3 1 (0.84%) ODBC
3 1 (0.84%) React Native
3 1 (0.84%) REST
3 1 (0.84%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.84%) Vue
3 1 (0.84%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.33%) Security Posture
2 18 (15.13%) Management Information System
3 10 (8.40%) Mobile App
4 8 (6.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (5.04%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.20%) IoT
6 5 (4.20%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.52%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.68%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.68%) PKI
8 2 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.68%) SCADA
9 1 (0.84%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.84%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.01%) Windows
2 15 (12.61%) Linux
3 9 (7.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.20%) Unix
5 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.36%) VMS
6 2 (1.68%) AIX
6 2 (1.68%) Solaris
6 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.84%) CentOS
7 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.84%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (48.74%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (26.89%) Penetration Testing
3 28 (23.53%) Information Security
4 26 (21.85%) SIEM
5 24 (20.17%) DevOps
6 22 (18.49%) Incident Response
6 22 (18.49%) Vulnerability Management
7 19 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 16 (13.45%) Network Design
9 16 (13.45%) Roadmaps
10 15 (12.61%) Agile
10 15 (12.61%) Business Strategy
10 15 (12.61%) Risk Assessment
10 15 (12.61%) Security Monitoring
11 14 (11.76%) Cloud Security
11 14 (11.76%) Security Operations
12 13 (10.92%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.92%) Incident Management
12 13 (10.92%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.69%) Python
2 7 (5.88%) C#
3 6 (5.04%) Go
3 6 (5.04%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.68%) Bash
4 2 (1.68%) C
4 2 (1.68%) C++
4 2 (1.68%) Java
4 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.68%) Perl
4 2 (1.68%) Ruby
4 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.84%) Korn
5 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.84%) SQL
5 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (21.85%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (20.17%) Security Cleared
3 23 (19.33%) CCNP
4 16 (13.45%) CISSP
5 15 (12.61%) CISM
5 15 (12.61%) Degree
6 14 (11.76%) DV Cleared
7 12 (10.08%) CREST Certified
7 12 (10.08%) SC Cleared
8 11 (9.24%) OSCP
9 8 (6.72%) CEH
9 8 (6.72%) GIAC
10 6 (5.04%) CHECK Team Leader
10 6 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (3.36%) CCNA
12 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
12 3 (2.52%) CRISC
13 2 (1.68%) GPEN
13 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (20.17%) NIST
3 12 (10.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 11 (9.24%) NCSC
5 5 (4.20%) PCI DSS
6 4 (3.36%) ISO 31000
7 3 (2.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (2.52%) COBIT
7 3 (2.52%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.68%) Automotive SPICE
8 2 (1.68%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.68%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.68%) QA
9 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.84%) GRC
9 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 7 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.04%) Firmware
3 3 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.84%) Docker
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.84%) Samba
4 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (13.45%) Nessus
2 11 (9.24%) Ansible
3 8 (6.72%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.36%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.52%) Terraform
6 2 (1.68%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.68%) QRadar
6 2 (1.68%) SCCM
7 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.84%) WMI
7 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (20.17%) Cisco
2 17 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 16 (13.45%) Nokia
4 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
5 13 (10.92%) Qualys
6 10 (8.40%) Juniper
7 9 (7.56%) Rapid7
7 9 (7.56%) ScienceLogic
7 9 (7.56%) VMware
8 7 (5.88%) Sophos
9 6 (5.04%) F5
9 6 (5.04%) Fortinet
9 6 (5.04%) SAP
9 6 (5.04%) Veeam
10 5 (4.20%) Splunk
11 3 (2.52%) Oracle
11 3 (2.52%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.68%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (1.68%) Huawei
12 2 (1.68%) Okta