Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 68 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +42
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 15 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.69% 0.13% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.15% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 16
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -30.07%
75th Percentile £538 - £515
90th Percentile £551 - £594
Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £650 £505
% change year-on-year -20.23% +28.71% -29.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 772 664 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.84% 86.12% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 415 741
10th Percentile £287 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £600
90th Percentile £654 £655 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -3.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 15
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.03
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.25 £17.07
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +56.97% -1.40%
75th Percentile £46.56 £38.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £56.25 £30.05
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +28.21% -11.36% +15.79%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in West Yorkshire

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Leeds +1 15 £500 -23.08% 9
Vulnerability Management
Yorkshire

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Storage
4 3 (20.00%) OCI
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (6.67%) SCCP
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Security Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) JWT
1 4 (26.67%) OAuth
1 4 (26.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (66.67%) SIEM
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
3 6 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 5 (33.33%) SOAR
5 4 (26.67%) Application Security
5 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) Validation
6 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (20.00%) GCIA
3 3 (20.00%) GCIH
3 3 (20.00%) GIAC
3 3 (20.00%) SSCP
4 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CCSP
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (33.33%) NIST
2 5 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 3 (20.00%) NIST 800
4 2 (13.33%) GDPR
4 2 (13.33%) PSD2
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Rapid7
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) McAfee
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) VMware