Vulnerability Scanning Contracts

Vulnerability Scanning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 605 664
Rank change year-on-year +95 +59 -33
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 80 98 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 63 136
10th Percentile £324 £399 £350
25th Percentile £463 £488 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £588 £522
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +12.60% -2.11%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £575
90th Percentile £776 £775 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £645 £525
% change year-on-year -20.54% +22.86% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%
75th Percentile - - £39.38
90th Percentile - - £45.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Scanning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 3 May 2024.

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 12 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 3 May 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 +123 74 £575 +3.60% 51
London +89 42 £600 +14.29% 19
Work from Home +110 30 £538 -19.42% 30
UK excluding London +38 28 £513 -20.54% 38
South West +30 13 £525 -2.33% 4
Scotland +27 4 £300 -55.02% 3
Midlands +22 3 £260 -60.75% 3
West Midlands +22 3 £260 -60.75% 2
South East +8 3 £500 -13.98% 5
East of England - 3 £750 - 1
North of England +28 2 £488 -2.50% 17
North West +17 2 £488 -2.50% 6

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 2 (2.50%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) AWS
2 13 (16.25%) GCP
3 12 (15.00%) Azure
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.75%) AWS KMS
5 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.50%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.25%) IaaS
7 1 (1.25%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.25%) PaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Route 53
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (35.00%) Firewall
2 7 (8.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (6.25%) DNS
4 3 (3.75%) DHCP
4 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.50%) VPN
6 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.25%) LAN
6 1 (1.25%) Network Security
6 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (18.75%) GitLab
1 15 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Finance
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.50%) Banking
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Publishing
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Analyst
2 12 (15.00%) Architect
2 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (15.00%) Network Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Security Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Senior
6 7 (8.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Security Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) SOC Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 3 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Security Consultant
10 3 (3.75%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) JSON
1 3 (3.75%) XML
2 2 (2.50%) Ajax
2 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.50%) CSS
2 2 (2.50%) HTML
2 2 (2.50%) SOAP
2 2 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.25%) Laravel
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.25%) SAML
3 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Data Centre
1 13 (16.25%) Private Cloud
2 9 (11.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.50%) Security Posture
4 5 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) CMDB
7 2 (2.50%) PKI
7 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Linux
3 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.25%) AIX
5 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.25%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) Penetration Testing
2 34 (42.50%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (35.00%) Information Security
4 24 (30.00%) SIEM
5 23 (28.75%) DevOps
6 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (26.25%) DevSecOps
8 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
8 19 (23.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (18.75%) Cloud Security
10 15 (18.75%) Incident Response
10 15 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
11 14 (17.50%) Computer Science
11 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
12 13 (16.25%) Resource Management
12 13 (16.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 12 (15.00%) Security Operations
13 12 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
14 10 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.25%) Python
2 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.25%) Bash
4 1 (1.25%) Go
4 1 (1.25%) Java
4 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.25%) Ruby
4 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.50%) Degree
4 11 (13.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (8.75%) CISSP
6 4 (5.00%) CISM
6 4 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (2.50%) CISA
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CCNA
8 1 (1.25%) CCNA CyberOps
8 1 (1.25%) CCSP
8 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.25%) MCSE
8 1 (1.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (12.50%) NIST
2 8 (10.00%) GDPR
3 7 (8.75%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.00%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.50%) COBIT
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.50%) ISO 22301
5 2 (2.50%) NCSC
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (16.25%) vSphere
3 5 (6.25%) Docker
4 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.25%) Snort
5 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Terraform
2 12 (15.00%) vCenter Server
3 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.25%) Ansible
4 5 (6.25%) SCCM
5 3 (3.75%) Nessus
5 3 (3.75%) WSUS
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.25%) Argo
7 1 (1.25%) CASB
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (1.25%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.25%) Istio
7 1 (1.25%) Nmap
7 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.25%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) VMware
2 15 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.75%) Google
4 6 (7.50%) Qualys
5 5 (6.25%) Rapid7
6 4 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.75%) Splunk
8 2 (2.50%) CA
8 2 (2.50%) Cisco
8 2 (2.50%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.50%) Lotus
8 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.50%) Sophos
8 2 (2.50%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle
9 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.25%) Varonis