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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 578 724
Rank change year-on-year +74 +146 -84
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 80 119 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 85 91
10th Percentile £375 £381 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -3.75%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £550
90th Percentile £715 £648 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -7.27% +15.79% +5.56%

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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 17 June 2024.

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 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 Remediation within the UK over the 6 months to 17 June 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 +48 60 £525 -4.55% 28
Work from Home +123 44 £505 -6.48% 37
London +62 40 £592 +7.59% 11
UK excluding London +14 27 £510 -7.27% 19
South East +23 11 £425 -34.62% 4
Scotland +55 9 £515 +21.18% 2
Wales +18 3 £643 +42.78% 1
Midlands +4 2 £567 -1.90% 3
West Midlands +12 1 - - 1
North West +7 1 £567 -6.44% 4
North of England +5 1 £567 -6.44% 5
East Midlands +2 1 £567 -7.65% 2
South West - 1 £600 - 2

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 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.00%) Azure
2 19 (23.75%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (17.50%) AWS
4 9 (11.25%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.00%) GCP
6 4 (5.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub
7 2 (2.50%) Google App Engine
7 2 (2.50%) Route 53
7 2 (2.50%) Serverless
7 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.75%) Firewall
2 11 (13.75%) DNS
3 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.00%) VPN
5 3 (3.75%) DHCP
5 3 (3.75%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (3.75%) Network Security
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.50%) OSPF
6 2 (2.50%) SSL
6 2 (2.50%) VLAN
7 1 (1.25%) BGP
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.25%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (3.75%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Burp Suite
1 3 (3.75%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.50%) AppScan
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.50%) Subversion
3 1 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (31.25%) Finance
2 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Banking
5 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Front Office
6 3 (3.75%) Marketing
6 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Advertising
7 1 (1.25%) Electronics
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Analyst
2 17 (21.25%) Senior
3 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Security Analyst
3 13 (16.25%) Security Engineer
4 11 (13.75%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Senior Security Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) IT Security Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Security Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Unix Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) .NET
1 3 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.25%) EDI
2 1 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 10 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 6 (7.50%) Cyberattack
3 6 (7.50%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.25%) Market Risk
5 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (33.75%) Windows
2 14 (17.50%) Unix
3 13 (16.25%) Linux
4 11 (13.75%) Windows Server
5 8 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.75%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.25%) Vulnerability Management
2 26 (32.50%) Information Security
3 22 (27.50%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (22.50%) SIEM
5 16 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (17.50%) Penetration Testing
8 13 (16.25%) Security Operations
8 13 (16.25%) Security Patching
9 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (13.75%) ITIL
10 11 (13.75%) Threat Intelligence
11 10 (12.50%) Incident Management
11 10 (12.50%) Incident Response
11 10 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
11 10 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
11 10 (12.50%) Technical Analysis
12 9 (11.25%) Business Impact Analysis
12 9 (11.25%) Impact Analysis
12 9 (11.25%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.75%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.00%) Python
3 3 (3.75%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.50%) Bash
4 2 (2.50%) C++
4 2 (2.50%) Java
4 2 (2.50%) VBScript
5 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.00%) CISSP
4 3 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.75%) SANS
4 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) CEH
5 2 (2.50%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CCNP
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) GCIH
6 1 (1.25%) GIAC
6 1 (1.25%) GPEN
6 1 (1.25%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (11.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (8.75%) SLA
4 3 (3.75%) ISO 9001
4 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (3.75%) NIST
4 3 (3.75%) QA
5 2 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.50%) GRC
6 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.25%) COBIT
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.25%) GDPR
6 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.00%) vSphere
4 3 (3.75%) Docker
4 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (17.50%) SCCM
2 7 (8.75%) Ansible
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.50%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.50%) Puppet
4 5 (6.25%) Nessus
4 5 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (6.25%) WSUS
5 4 (5.00%) Nagios
6 3 (3.75%) Grafana
6 3 (3.75%) Graylog
6 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.75%) Terraform
7 2 (2.50%) HP Fortify
7 2 (2.50%) Nexpose
7 2 (2.50%) Salt
7 2 (2.50%) WebInspect
8 1 (1.25%) SCOM
8 1 (1.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 29 (36.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.50%) Qualys
3 17 (21.25%) VMware
4 8 (10.00%) CA
4 8 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (6.25%) Oracle
6 4 (5.00%) Rapid7
6 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.00%) Splunk
7 3 (3.75%) Checkmarx
7 3 (3.75%) Cisco
7 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.50%) SaltStack
8 2 (2.50%) Veracode
9 1 (1.25%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (1.25%) F5
9 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.25%) Netskope
9 1 (1.25%) SAP
9 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds