Vulnerability Consultant Contract Job Trends

Vulnerability Consultant
UK

The median Vulnerability Consultant daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 549 602
Rank change year-on-year -32 +53 +195
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Consultant 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.009% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £434 £514 £422
25th Percentile £459 £516 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +3.37% +4.00%
75th Percentile £519 £566 £640
90th Percentile £530 £571 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £700
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 33,474 31,919 40,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.77% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,646 27,547
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,966 1,020 1,459
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Vulnerability Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Vulnerability Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Vulnerability Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Vulnerability Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Vulnerability Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Vulnerability Consultant
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 17 December 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
London -5 5 £480 -10.70%
England -36 5 £480 -10.70%
Work from Home +2 3 £500 -

Vulnerability Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Vulnerability Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Vulnerability Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (83.33%) Tenable
3 4 (66.67%) Rapid7
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (33.33%) Nessus
5 2 (33.33%) Nexpose
5 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (33.33%) Power BI
5 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (33.33%) Qualys
5 2 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (16.67%) Application Security
6 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (16.67%) CISA
6 1 (16.67%) CISSP
6 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 1 (16.67%) CRISC
6 1 (16.67%) CSSLP
6 1 (16.67%) Data Management
6 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 1 (16.67%) Information Security

Vulnerability Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Snyk
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) SABSA
3 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISA
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CRISC
1 1 (16.67%) CSSLP
1 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Nessus
1 2 (33.33%) Nexpose
2 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Tenable
2 4 (66.67%) Rapid7
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 2 (33.33%) Qualys
5 1 (16.67%) Tanium