Vulnerability Assessment Contracts with Work from Home Options

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 420 529
Rank change year-on-year +97 +109 -85
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 36 60 97
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.26% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 75
10th Percentile £413 £381 £400
25th Percentile £483 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £738
90th Percentile £775 £704 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £590
% change year-on-year - -11.02% +31.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.31% +80.99% -37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,515 23,376 40,505
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.86% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,014 16,510 29,383
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 541 540
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.78
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Vulnerability Assessment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Assessment trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Vulnerability Assessment daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Vulnerability Assessment hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.78%) Figma
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) Firewall
2 6 (16.67%) Network Security
3 3 (8.33%) BGP
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (5.56%) MPLS
4 2 (5.56%) RSVP
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.78%) DHCP
5 1 (2.78%) DNS
5 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.78%) OSPF
5 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.78%) SSL
5 1 (2.78%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Automotive
5 2 (5.56%) Electronics
5 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.56%) Multimedia
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Security Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Security Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) SOC Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Design Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Network Design Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Security Risk Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) SOC Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) CSS
1 1 (2.78%) Flutter
1 1 (2.78%) HTML
1 1 (2.78%) Jest
1 1 (2.78%) Node.js
1 1 (2.78%) React Native
1 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Security Posture
2 7 (19.44%) Management Information System
3 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.78%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.78%) IoT
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) CentOS
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (38.89%) SIEM
3 12 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
4 11 (30.56%) Incident Response
4 11 (30.56%) Information Security
5 9 (25.00%) Threat Detection
5 9 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (19.44%) Risk Management
6 7 (19.44%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (16.67%) Analytics
7 6 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 6 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
7 6 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis
7 6 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (13.89%) Business Impact Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) Dynamic Code Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) Impact Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 2 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) C#
2 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) CISSP
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) CISM
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 4 (11.11%) CCNP
4 4 (11.11%) CEH
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.33%) CREST Certified
6 2 (5.56%) CRISC
6 2 (5.56%) CSSLP
6 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) OSCP
7 1 (2.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (33.33%) NIST
3 7 (19.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 6 (16.67%) NCSC
5 2 (5.56%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (5.56%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (5.56%) COBIT
5 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (5.56%) ISO 22301
5 2 (5.56%) ISO 31000
5 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
1 1 (2.78%) Samba
1 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Nessus
2 4 (11.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.78%) SCCM
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Rapid7
2 6 (16.67%) Qualys
3 5 (13.89%) Sophos
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco
4 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.11%) Splunk
5 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.56%) Juniper
6 2 (5.56%) Nokia
7 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.78%) Remedy
7 1 (2.78%) SAP
7 1 (2.78%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (2.78%) Veeam
7 1 (2.78%) VMware
7 1 (2.78%) Xamarin