Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 140 169
Rank change year-on-year +34 +29 -47
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 4 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.33% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile £464 £400 £404
25th Percentile £559 £419 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +20.93% +65.38%
75th Percentile £700 £744 £622
90th Percentile £745 £770 £661
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.05% -8.33% +38.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,614 2,145 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.84% 88.31% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,475 2,393
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £404 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +4.92% +17.66%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £575
90th Percentile £734 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 48 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.11 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.35 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.75 £49.38 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
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 Assessment within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Birmingham - 2 £700 - 2
Warwickshire 0 1 £425 -41.38%
Staffordshire - 1 £625 -
Vulnerability Assessment
England

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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 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Contingency Planning
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Rapid7
2 2 (50.00%) Sophos
3 1 (25.00%) Qualys