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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 498 581
Rank change year-on-year +54 +83 +135
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 78 78 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 64 72
10th Percentile £339 £375 £384
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -5.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £636 £645 £602
90th Percentile £800 £725 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -21.95% -6.82% +15.18%

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 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
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% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 17 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 10 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 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 +69 63 £525 -3.85% 85
London +35 38 £543 -8.32% 57
Work from Home +33 33 £543 +8.50% 60
UK excluding London +45 23 £400 -21.95% 31
North of England +26 9 £215 -74.21% 9
North West +23 7 £215 -62.08% 4
South West - 6 £400 - 3
South East +40 5 £600 +45.45% 8
Scotland +2 3 - - 4
North East - 2 - - 1

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 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.28%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.46%) Azure
2 18 (23.08%) AWS
3 10 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 8 (10.26%) SaaS
6 6 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (7.69%) IaaS
6 6 (7.69%) PaaS
7 5 (6.41%) Mimecast
7 5 (6.41%) OneDrive
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.13%) Cloudflare
9 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.85%) GCP
10 2 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Stack
10 2 (2.56%) GitHub
10 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.51%) Firewall
2 6 (7.69%) WAN
3 3 (3.85%) DHCP
3 3 (3.85%) DNS
3 3 (3.85%) Internet
3 3 (3.85%) iSCSI
3 3 (3.85%) LAN
3 3 (3.85%) NAS
3 3 (3.85%) Network Security
3 3 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (3.85%) SAN
3 3 (3.85%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.85%) VLAN
3 3 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.85%) Wireless
4 2 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.28%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.28%) Power BI
4 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Snyk
2 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (29.49%) Finance
2 11 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Banking
5 5 (6.41%) Legal
6 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.85%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Marketing
7 2 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Back Office
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Front Office
8 1 (1.28%) German Language
Job Titles
1 13 (16.67%) Senior
2 12 (15.38%) Lead
3 11 (14.10%) Security Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) Architect
4 10 (12.82%) Security Architect
5 6 (7.69%) Consultant
6 5 (6.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) IT Architect
6 5 (6.41%) IT Security Architect
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Architect
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Security Architect
6 5 (6.41%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Lead Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Senior Tester
7 3 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) CSS
1 3 (3.85%) HTML
2 2 (2.56%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.28%) Kafka
3 1 (1.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) Security Posture
2 8 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.13%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (3.85%) IVR
4 3 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) PKI
6 1 (1.28%) Clustering
6 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) PMI
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (34.62%) Windows
2 15 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 14 (17.95%) Linux
4 7 (8.97%) Unix
5 4 (5.13%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.85%) AIX
6 3 (3.85%) Android
6 3 (3.85%) CentOS
6 3 (3.85%) HPUX
6 3 (3.85%) Solaris
6 3 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.85%) Vulnerability Management
2 21 (26.92%) Cloud Security
3 19 (24.36%) Incident Response
3 19 (24.36%) Patch Management
3 19 (24.36%) Penetration Testing
4 15 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (17.95%) Agile
5 14 (17.95%) SIEM
5 14 (17.95%) Threat Modelling
6 13 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.10%) ITIL
7 11 (14.10%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 10 (12.82%) Information Security
8 10 (12.82%) Security Operations
8 10 (12.82%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 9 (11.54%) Security Architecture
10 8 (10.26%) DevOps
10 8 (10.26%) DevSecOps
10 8 (10.26%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.82%) Python
2 7 (8.97%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.69%) SQL
4 4 (5.13%) Bash
5 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.85%) Perl
5 3 (3.85%) PHP
5 3 (3.85%) Ruby
5 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) CISSP
4 4 (5.13%) CEH
4 4 (5.13%) CISM
4 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.13%) CREST Certified
4 4 (5.13%) GIAC
4 4 (5.13%) OSCP
4 4 (5.13%) PMP
5 3 (3.85%) CCSAS
5 3 (3.85%) GPEN
5 3 (3.85%) GWAPT
6 2 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.28%) CISA
7 1 (1.28%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (11.54%) NIST
3 6 (7.69%) SLA
4 5 (6.41%) GDPR
5 4 (5.13%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.56%) GRC
6 2 (2.56%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.56%) NCSC
7 1 (1.28%) QA
7 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (14.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.13%) Docker
3 3 (3.85%) KVM
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (16.67%) SCCM
2 12 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.69%) Nessus
3 6 (7.69%) Terraform
4 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.13%) WSUS
6 3 (3.85%) Ansible
6 3 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.28%) Argo
7 1 (1.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 28 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.95%) Qualys
3 11 (14.10%) Tenable
4 4 (5.13%) Rapid7
4 4 (5.13%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.85%) Apple
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle
5 3 (3.85%) VMware
6 2 (2.56%) Tripwire
7 1 (1.28%) BMC
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco
7 1 (1.28%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.28%) Google
7 1 (1.28%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.28%) New Relic
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.28%) Splunk
7 1 (1.28%) Sun
7 1 (1.28%) Sybase