Vulnerability Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 96 105
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 +58
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 12 16 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.87% 0.84% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.01% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 23
10th Percentile £420 £390 £331
25th Percentile £538 £403 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +51.43% -27.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £544 £738
90th Percentile £763 £750 £813
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.41% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Vulnerability Management 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,223 1,590 2,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 83.77% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 1,057 1,387
10th Percentile £193 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £654 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 114 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +18.42% +12.93%
75th Percentile £24.10 £40.38 £28.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Coventry +10 3 - -
Birmingham +5 3 £525 +20.00% 6
Warwickshire -2 3 £478 -18.72% 3
Worcestershire - 2 £700 - 1
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Security Advisor
3 1 (8.33%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) SIEM
3 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
6 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Security Management
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) CISA
2 4 (33.33%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) CISM
3 3 (25.00%) SANS
4 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) GIAC
4 2 (16.67%) ISACA
5 1 (8.33%) CEH
5 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) NCSC
2 2 (16.67%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Tenable
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow