Vulnerability Assessment Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 309 418
Rank change year-on-year +42 +109 +115
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 37 36 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.27% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 48
10th Percentile £451 £413 £381
25th Percentile - £483 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £628
90th Percentile £671 £775 £706
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -10.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Vulnerability Assessment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Vulnerability Assessment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Assessment trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Vulnerability Assessment daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Vulnerability Assessment daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Vulnerability Assessment hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) Firewall
2 6 (16.22%) Network Security
3 5 (13.51%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (8.11%) VPN
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (5.41%) DNS
5 2 (5.41%) DWDM
5 2 (5.41%) LAN
5 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.41%) WAN
6 1 (2.70%) Ethernet
6 1 (2.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.70%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Fire and Rescue
3 3 (8.11%) Police
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Aviation
4 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.41%) Swedish Language
5 1 (2.70%) Automotive
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Senior
2 8 (21.62%) Information Security Specialist
2 8 (21.62%) Information Specialist
2 8 (21.62%) Security Specialist
2 8 (21.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 8 (21.62%) Senior Information Security Specialist
2 8 (21.62%) Senior Security Specialist
3 5 (13.51%) Consultant
3 5 (13.51%) Security Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Information Security Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.41%) IT Security Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Security Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) EDI
1 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.70%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.41%) Robotics
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) Life Science
4 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Windows
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Kali Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (40.54%) Information Security
3 14 (37.84%) Threat Modelling
4 12 (32.43%) Risk Management
5 10 (27.03%) Risk Assessment
6 9 (24.32%) Incident Response
6 9 (24.32%) Vulnerability Management
7 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (18.92%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (18.92%) Security Architecture
9 6 (16.22%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (16.22%) SIEM
9 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (16.22%) Threat Detection
10 5 (13.51%) Agile
10 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
10 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
10 5 (13.51%) Security Operations
10 5 (13.51%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Bash
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) CISM
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) CISSP
5 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (13.51%) Degree
6 2 (5.41%) CCNA
6 2 (5.41%) CCNP
6 2 (5.41%) CEH
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.41%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (5.41%) JNCIA
6 2 (5.41%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.70%) GCIA
7 1 (2.70%) GCIH
7 1 (2.70%) GIAC
7 1 (2.70%) GSEC
7 1 (2.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
2 4 (10.81%) QA
3 3 (8.11%) NCSC
4 2 (5.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.70%) GRC
5 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
1 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
1 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Ansible
1 3 (8.11%) Grafana
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Nessus
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) SCCM
3 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Planview
3 3 (8.11%) Tenable
4 2 (5.41%) Arista
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) Qualys
4 2 (5.41%) Ribbon
5 1 (2.70%) Apple
5 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.70%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.70%) McAfee
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.70%) Samsung
5 1 (2.70%) Symantec
5 1 (2.70%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.70%) VMware