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 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 438 492 601
Rank change year-on-year +54 +109 +59
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 84 84 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 62 54
10th Percentile £325 £333 £395
25th Percentile £456 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -6.43% +10.90%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £674
90th Percentile £716 £771 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £525 £613
% change year-on-year -3.81% -14.29% +16.67%
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 26,772 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 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 17 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 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 +55 71 £542 -3.26% 96
UK excluding London +62 42 £505 -3.81% 50
Work from Home +50 38 £488 -6.02% 55
London +20 30 £575 -4.17% 53
North of England +35 18 £510 +4.62% 13
North West +29 14 £510 +4.62% 5
South East +51 9 £588 +17.50% 17
South West +38 8 £485 -7.62% 7
Scotland +9 5 £275 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire - 3 - - 8
Midlands +18 2 - - 5
West Midlands +7 2 - - 5
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.38%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.90%) Azure
2 22 (26.19%) AWS
3 16 (19.05%) IaaS
4 15 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (15.48%) Entra ID
6 8 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.33%) GCP
8 6 (7.14%) GitHub
9 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.95%) SaaS
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.76%) PaaS
10 4 (4.76%) Serverless
10 4 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (38.10%) Firewall
2 29 (34.52%) Network Security
3 12 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (8.33%) DNS
4 7 (8.33%) VPN
5 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.76%) SSL
7 3 (3.57%) DHCP
7 3 (3.57%) HTTP
7 3 (3.57%) IPsec
8 1 (1.19%) VSAN
8 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.71%) GitLab
3 5 (5.95%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.57%) Git
5 2 (2.38%) Snyk
6 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.19%) JIRA
6 1 (1.19%) Selenium
General
1 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.10%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.14%) Finance
4 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.76%) Legal
6 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.38%) Aviation
7 2 (2.38%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (2.38%) Police
7 2 (2.38%) Swedish Language
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Security Engineer
2 14 (16.67%) Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Architect
3 8 (9.52%) Security Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Senior
4 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 6 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.57%) DevOps Administrator
8 3 (3.57%) Lead
8 3 (3.57%) Linux DevOps Administrator
8 3 (3.57%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 3 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) HTML
2 3 (3.57%) CSS
2 3 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.19%) Ajax
3 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.19%) OAuth
3 1 (1.19%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.19%) OpenID
3 1 (1.19%) Playwright
3 1 (1.19%) SOAP
3 1 (1.19%) Web Services
3 1 (1.19%) WebAuthn
3 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) PKI
1 5 (5.95%) Security Posture
2 4 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (3.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) NHS
4 2 (2.38%) Robotics
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) CMDB
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) PMI
5 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.19%) Windows
2 14 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.29%) Linux
4 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 24 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
2 24 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 23 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (25.00%) Information Security
5 20 (23.81%) Cloud Security
5 20 (23.81%) Penetration Testing
6 19 (22.62%) SIEM
7 16 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 14 (16.67%) Change Management
8 14 (16.67%) DevOps
9 13 (15.48%) Business Continuity
9 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (14.29%) High Availability
11 11 (13.10%) Containerisation
11 11 (13.10%) DevSecOps
11 11 (13.10%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (13.10%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (33.33%) Python
2 22 (26.19%) PowerShell
3 15 (17.86%) Bash
4 8 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.76%) Java
6 3 (3.57%) Perl
6 3 (3.57%) PHP
6 3 (3.57%) Ruby
6 3 (3.57%) SQL
7 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.24%) CISSP
2 17 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.67%) CISM
4 12 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 12 (14.29%) CEH
4 12 (14.29%) Degree
5 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.95%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (5.95%) GIAC
8 3 (3.57%) CCSAS
8 3 (3.57%) CREST Certified
8 3 (3.57%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (3.57%) GPEN
8 3 (3.57%) GWAPT
8 3 (3.57%) OSCP
9 2 (2.38%) CISA
10 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 1 (1.19%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.24%) NIST
2 11 (13.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (11.90%) GDPR
3 10 (11.90%) PCI DSS
4 8 (9.52%) HIPAA
5 4 (4.76%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.38%) NCSC
6 2 (2.38%) SLA
7 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 12 (14.29%) vSphere
3 10 (11.90%) Docker
3 10 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (22.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.48%) Terraform
3 10 (11.90%) Ansible
3 10 (11.90%) Grafana
4 9 (10.71%) Nessus
5 8 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.14%) SCCM
7 4 (4.76%) WSUS
8 3 (3.57%) HP Fortify
8 3 (3.57%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.38%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.19%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.19%) Packer
10 1 (1.19%) Puppet
10 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (27.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (22.62%) Qualys
3 16 (19.05%) VMware
4 13 (15.48%) Tenable
5 6 (7.14%) Rapid7
5 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.76%) ForgeRock
7 3 (3.57%) Oracle
7 3 (3.57%) Sophos
7 3 (3.57%) Splunk
8 2 (2.38%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.38%) Ribbon
9 1 (1.19%) Dell
9 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.19%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.19%) Ping Identity