Vulnerability Scanning Contracts

Vulnerability Scanning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning 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 439 505 621
Rank change year-on-year +66 +116 +41
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 81 77 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 57 60
10th Percentile £291 £320 £411
25th Percentile £430 £463 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +15.72%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £676
90th Percentile £707 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £525 £645
% change year-on-year -6.95% -18.60% +22.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Scanning 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 Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

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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 Scanning 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 +53 68 £516 -7.81% 81
UK excluding London +74 38 £489 -6.95% 58
Work from Home +49 35 £490 -11.96% 55
London +28 31 £588 -2.08% 40
North of England +34 16 £510 - 12
North West +29 13 £505 - 1
South West +42 9 £400 -23.81% 5
South East +50 7 £600 +20.00% 22
Scotland +14 5 £275 -8.33% 7
Yorkshire - 2 - - 11
Midlands +20 1 - - 9
West Midlands +12 1 - - 8
North East - 1 £550 -

Vulnerability Scanning
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 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.47%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.57%) Azure
2 20 (24.69%) AWS
3 18 (22.22%) IaaS
4 15 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (16.05%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.41%) GCP
6 6 (7.41%) PaaS
6 6 (7.41%) SaaS
7 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.70%) GitHub
8 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.70%) Serverless
8 3 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.27%) Firewall
2 25 (30.86%) Network Security
3 13 (16.05%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (7.41%) DNS
4 6 (7.41%) VPN
5 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.70%) DHCP
6 3 (3.70%) HTTP
6 3 (3.70%) IPsec
6 3 (3.70%) SSL
7 1 (1.23%) VSAN
7 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.41%) GitLab
3 2 (2.47%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.23%) JIRA
4 1 (1.23%) Snyk
General
1 21 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.58%) Telecoms
4 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.41%) Finance
6 5 (6.17%) Legal
7 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.47%) Aviation
8 2 (2.47%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (2.47%) Police
8 2 (2.47%) Swedish Language
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Analyst
2 14 (17.28%) Security Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Senior
4 8 (9.88%) Security Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 6 (7.41%) Architect
6 6 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Security Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Tester
7 5 (6.17%) Tester
7 5 (6.17%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.70%) Linux DevOps Administrator
9 3 (3.70%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 3 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) HTML
2 5 (6.17%) CSS
3 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.23%) Ajax
4 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.23%) OAuth
4 1 (1.23%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.23%) OpenID
4 1 (1.23%) SOAP
4 1 (1.23%) Web Services
4 1 (1.23%) WebAuthn
4 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (6.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 5 (6.17%) PKI
2 4 (4.94%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.94%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.47%) NHS
4 2 (2.47%) Robotics
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.23%) CMDB
5 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) PMI
5 1 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.93%) Windows
2 14 (17.28%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.81%) Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.68%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (28.40%) Risk Assessment
2 23 (28.40%) Vulnerability Management
3 22 (27.16%) Information Security
4 21 (25.93%) Incident Response
5 19 (23.46%) Penetration Testing
6 16 (19.75%) Cloud Security
7 15 (18.52%) SIEM
7 15 (18.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 14 (17.28%) Change Management
9 13 (16.05%) Business Continuity
10 12 (14.81%) CI/CD
10 12 (14.81%) DevOps
10 12 (14.81%) High Availability
11 11 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (13.58%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (11.11%) Task Automation
13 8 (9.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.10%) Python
2 20 (24.69%) PowerShell
3 12 (14.81%) Bash
4 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.17%) PHP
5 5 (6.17%) Ruby
5 5 (6.17%) SQL
6 4 (4.94%) Java
7 3 (3.70%) Perl
8 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.75%) CISSP
2 16 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.28%) CEH
3 14 (17.28%) Degree
4 13 (16.05%) CISM
5 12 (14.81%) Azure Certification
6 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (8.64%) GIAC
8 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
9 5 (6.17%) CCSAS
9 5 (6.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (6.17%) CREST Certified
9 5 (6.17%) GPEN
9 5 (6.17%) GWAPT
9 5 (6.17%) OSCP
10 3 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (2.47%) CISA
12 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
12 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.28%) NIST
2 9 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (8.64%) PCI DSS
4 6 (7.41%) GDPR
5 5 (6.17%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.70%) SOC 2
7 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.47%) SLA
8 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (1.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (19.75%) Active Directory
2 12 (14.81%) vSphere
3 10 (12.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.64%) Docker
4 7 (8.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (23.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.11%) Terraform
3 8 (9.88%) Grafana
4 7 (8.64%) Ansible
4 7 (8.64%) Nessus
5 6 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.41%) SCCM
6 4 (4.94%) WSUS
7 3 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.47%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.23%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.23%) Packer
9 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.75%) Tenable
2 16 (19.75%) VMware
3 15 (18.52%) Qualys
4 6 (7.41%) Rapid7
4 6 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.94%) ForgeRock
6 3 (3.70%) Oracle
6 3 (3.70%) Sophos
7 2 (2.47%) Ribbon
7 2 (2.47%) Splunk
8 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.23%) Dell
8 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.23%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.23%) Ping Identity