Vulnerability Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Vulnerability Management
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 Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 308 430
Rank change year-on-year +96 +122 -58
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 140 169 200
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.73% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 126 148
10th Percentile £420 £413 £399
25th Percentile £425 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £556 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -1.55% +13.00%
75th Percentile £630 £685 £665
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.13% +14.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -28.13%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £32.50
90th Percentile - - £37.00
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -28.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Vulnerability Management 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 13,465 23,106 40,645
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.81% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,984 16,334 29,499
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% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Vulnerability Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Vulnerability Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
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 Management.

Vulnerability Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Vulnerability Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
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 Management.

Vulnerability Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (7.86%) Confluence
2 2 (1.43%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.86%) Azure
2 21 (15.00%) AWS
3 10 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.43%) GCP
5 8 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.00%) IaaS
6 7 (5.00%) Nutanix
6 7 (5.00%) PaaS
6 7 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.00%) Rubrik
6 7 (5.00%) SaaS
7 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.14%) GitHub
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.43%) Route 53
8 2 (1.43%) Serverless
8 2 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (23.57%) Firewall
2 20 (14.29%) DNS
3 15 (10.71%) TCP/IP
4 10 (7.14%) DHCP
5 8 (5.71%) VLAN
6 7 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (5.00%) Kerberos
6 7 (5.00%) NAS
6 7 (5.00%) Network Security
6 7 (5.00%) SAN
7 5 (3.57%) Wireshark
8 4 (2.86%) tcpdump
9 3 (2.14%) LAN
9 3 (2.14%) SCCP
9 3 (2.14%) VPN
9 3 (2.14%) WAN
10 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.71%) MPLS
10 1 (0.71%) OSPF
10 1 (0.71%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.00%) Power BI
3 4 (2.86%) Apache Hive
3 4 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 4 (2.86%) Tableau
4 2 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (10.00%) JIRA
2 9 (6.43%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.00%) Git
3 7 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.86%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 43 (30.71%) Finance
2 20 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.43%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.29%) Banking
8 3 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.43%) Retail
9 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (22.14%) Analyst
2 20 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 15 (10.71%) Security Analyst
4 11 (7.86%) Security Specialist
4 11 (7.86%) Senior
4 11 (7.86%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 10 (7.14%) Consultant
6 9 (6.43%) Architect
6 9 (6.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 9 (6.43%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 8 (5.71%) IT Security Specialist
7 8 (5.71%) Security Consultant
7 8 (5.71%) Security Operations Specialist
7 8 (5.71%) SOC Analyst
8 7 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Project Manager
8 7 (5.00%) Security Architect
8 7 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (5.00%) Senior Security Analyst
8 7 (5.00%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.00%) LDAP
2 4 (2.86%) OLE
3 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.71%) EDI
4 1 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.86%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 9 (6.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (5.71%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (5.00%) Clustering
5 7 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (5.00%) Replication
6 4 (2.86%) IoT
6 4 (2.86%) YARA
7 3 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.43%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.00%) Windows
2 28 (20.00%) Linux
3 25 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (7.86%) Unix
5 9 (6.43%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (5.00%) Solaris
7 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (30.71%) SIEM
3 40 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 40 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 38 (27.14%) Information Security
5 26 (18.57%) Data Security
6 23 (16.43%) Data Loss Prevention
7 21 (15.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 20 (14.29%) DevOps
9 19 (13.57%) Penetration Testing
10 17 (12.14%) Agile
10 17 (12.14%) Risk Management
11 16 (11.43%) Application Security
12 15 (10.71%) Cloud Security
13 14 (10.00%) Security Testing
14 13 (9.29%) Incident Management
14 13 (9.29%) Root Cause Analysis
15 12 (8.57%) ITIL
15 12 (8.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
15 12 (8.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.43%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.00%) Bash
2 7 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (0.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) CISSP
2 12 (8.57%) CISM
2 12 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.29%) Degree
5 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.14%) CRISC
7 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.71%) CISA
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CLAS
8 1 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.57%) NIST
2 17 (12.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (10.00%) GDPR
4 8 (5.71%) PCI DSS
4 8 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (4.29%) SLA
6 5 (3.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (1.43%) GRC
8 2 (1.43%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.71%) COBIT
9 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.71%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (19.29%) Active Directory
2 17 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.00%) Docker
4 5 (3.57%) XenApp
5 4 (2.86%) Snort
6 3 (2.14%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (11.43%) Ansible
1 16 (11.43%) SCCM
2 11 (7.86%) Terraform
3 7 (5.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 7 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Netcool
3 7 (5.00%) Tivoli
3 7 (5.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (4.29%) Kibana
5 5 (3.57%) Nessus
6 4 (2.86%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.86%) Puppet
7 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.43%) logstash
8 2 (1.43%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.43%) Nexpose
8 2 (1.43%) Packer
8 2 (1.43%) Salt
9 1 (0.71%) Matomo
Vendors
1 58 (41.43%) Qualys
2 47 (33.57%) Microsoft
3 28 (20.00%) VMware
4 17 (12.14%) Varonis
5 16 (11.43%) Forcepoint
5 16 (11.43%) LogRhythm
6 15 (10.71%) Splunk
7 12 (8.57%) Cisco
8 10 (7.14%) ServiceNow
9 9 (6.43%) IBM
10 8 (5.71%) CyberArk
11 7 (5.00%) CA
11 7 (5.00%) Dell
11 7 (5.00%) EMC
11 7 (5.00%) Google
11 7 (5.00%) HP
11 7 (5.00%) Isilon
11 7 (5.00%) Oracle
11 7 (5.00%) Serena
12 5 (3.57%) Citrix