Vulnerability Remediation Contracts

Vulnerability Remediation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation 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 441 503 624
Rank change year-on-year +62 +121 +102
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 79 79 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 66 63
10th Percentile £303 £375 £407
25th Percentile £416 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £575
90th Percentile £800 £725 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +2.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Remediation 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 Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation 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 +62 63 £525 +0.96% 76
London +34 35 £525 -10.64% 53
Work from Home +31 33 £512 +2.30% 69
UK excluding London +64 27 £420 -17.65% 41
North of England +27 10 £279 -66.53% 8
North West +23 7 £215 -62.08% 4
South West - 7 £388 - 4
South East +41 6 £584 +38.93% 19
Scotland +8 4 £475 -7.77% 5
North East - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +8 1 £343 -68.82% 3

Vulnerability Remediation
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 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.38%) Azure
2 17 (21.52%) AWS
3 11 (13.92%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.66%) Entra ID
4 10 (12.66%) SaaS
5 8 (10.13%) IaaS
5 8 (10.13%) PaaS
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (6.33%) Mimecast
6 5 (6.33%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.06%) Cloudflare
8 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.80%) GCP
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.53%) GitHub
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.72%) Firewall
2 7 (8.86%) Network Security
3 6 (7.59%) WAN
4 3 (3.80%) DHCP
4 3 (3.80%) DNS
4 3 (3.80%) IMAP
4 3 (3.80%) Internet
4 3 (3.80%) iSCSI
4 3 (3.80%) LAN
4 3 (3.80%) NAS
4 3 (3.80%) POP3
4 3 (3.80%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (3.80%) SAN
4 3 (3.80%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.80%) SMTP
4 3 (3.80%) VLAN
4 3 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (3.80%) Wireless
5 2 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.27%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.27%) Power BI
4 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Snyk
2 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.27%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (25.32%) Finance
2 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Banking
5 7 (8.86%) Legal
6 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.80%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Back Office
9 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.99%) Senior
2 12 (15.19%) Lead
3 10 (12.66%) Security Engineer
4 9 (11.39%) Support Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Architect
5 8 (10.13%) Security Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Analyst
6 5 (6.33%) Consultant
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Security Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Tester
6 5 (6.33%) Tester
7 4 (5.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.80%) IT Security Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Lead Consultant
8 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
8 3 (3.80%) Unix Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) CSS
1 5 (6.33%) HTML
2 2 (2.53%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.27%) Kafka
3 1 (1.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.99%) Security Posture
2 8 (10.13%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.59%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (6.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.80%) IVR
5 3 (3.80%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Clustering
7 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.27%) PKI
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.38%) Windows
2 15 (18.99%) Linux
3 12 (15.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.66%) Unix
5 3 (3.80%) AIX
5 3 (3.80%) Android
5 3 (3.80%) CentOS
5 3 (3.80%) HPUX
5 3 (3.80%) Solaris
5 3 (3.80%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.80%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.84%) Vulnerability Management
2 20 (25.32%) Cloud Security
3 19 (24.05%) Penetration Testing
4 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (20.25%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (20.25%) Patch Management
6 15 (18.99%) Incident Response
6 15 (18.99%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 13 (16.46%) Threat Modelling
8 12 (15.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (15.19%) Information Security
9 11 (13.92%) Agile
9 11 (13.92%) Security Operations
9 11 (13.92%) SIEM
10 9 (11.39%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (11.39%) ITIL
11 8 (10.13%) Application Security
11 8 (10.13%) Computer Science
12 7 (8.86%) DevSecOps
12 7 (8.86%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.92%) Python
2 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.13%) SQL
4 5 (6.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.33%) PHP
4 5 (6.33%) Ruby
5 4 (5.06%) Bash
6 3 (3.80%) Perl
6 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.19%) Degree
4 8 (10.13%) CISSP
5 6 (7.59%) CEH
5 6 (7.59%) CREST Certified
5 6 (7.59%) GIAC
5 6 (7.59%) OSCP
6 5 (6.33%) CCSAS
6 5 (6.33%) CISM
6 5 (6.33%) GPEN
6 5 (6.33%) GWAPT
7 3 (3.80%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.53%) PMP
9 1 (1.27%) CISA
9 1 (1.27%) CRISC
9 1 (1.27%) PgMP
9 1 (1.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.33%) NIST
2 5 (6.33%) SLA
3 3 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.53%) GRC
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.53%) NCSC
4 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.27%) QA
5 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (15.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.06%) Docker
3 3 (3.80%) KVM
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.80%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (15.19%) SCCM
2 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.59%) Terraform
4 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.33%) Nessus
5 3 (3.80%) Ansible
5 3 (3.80%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.80%) Puppet
6 2 (2.53%) WSUS
7 1 (1.27%) Argo
7 1 (1.27%) CASB
7 1 (1.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (34.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.72%) Qualys
3 10 (12.66%) Tenable
4 4 (5.06%) Rapid7
4 4 (5.06%) Splunk
5 3 (3.80%) Apple
5 3 (3.80%) Oracle
5 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.80%) VMware
6 2 (2.53%) Tripwire
7 1 (1.27%) BMC
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco
7 1 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.27%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (1.27%) New Relic
7 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.27%) Sybase