Vulnerability Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Vulnerability Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 297 432
Rank change year-on-year +85 +135 -47
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 132 162 195
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.68% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.76% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 130 152
10th Percentile £424 £413 £426
25th Percentile £425 £477 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £713
90th Percentile £730 £776 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% +15.00%
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% -
75th Percentile - £27.50 £32.50
90th Percentile - - £37.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +130.00% -13.04% +36.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 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 9 (6.82%) Confluence
2 2 (1.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.94%) Azure
2 18 (13.64%) AWS
3 11 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.30%) GCP
6 6 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.79%) IaaS
7 5 (3.79%) Nutanix
7 5 (3.79%) PaaS
7 5 (3.79%) Rubrik
7 5 (3.79%) SaaS
8 3 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.27%) GitHub
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.52%) Route 53
9 2 (1.52%) Serverless
9 2 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (26.52%) Firewall
2 19 (14.39%) DNS
3 14 (10.61%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.06%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (5.30%) DHCP
5 7 (5.30%) Network Security
6 6 (4.55%) VLAN
7 5 (3.79%) Kerberos
7 5 (3.79%) NAS
7 5 (3.79%) SAN
7 5 (3.79%) Wireshark
8 4 (3.03%) tcpdump
8 4 (3.03%) VPN
9 3 (2.27%) LAN
9 3 (2.27%) SCCP
9 3 (2.27%) WAN
10 1 (0.76%) HTTP
10 1 (0.76%) MPLS
10 1 (0.76%) OSPF
10 1 (0.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.03%) Apache Hive
2 4 (3.03%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.03%) Tableau
3 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (9.09%) JIRA
2 7 (5.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.79%) Git
3 5 (3.79%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.03%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 45 (34.09%) Finance
2 18 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.06%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.55%) Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.27%) Retail
7 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.76%) Electronics
8 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (17.42%) Analyst
2 22 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 14 (10.61%) Security Analyst
4 13 (9.85%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 12 (9.09%) Senior
6 10 (7.58%) Consultant
6 10 (7.58%) Security Specialist
7 8 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (6.06%) IT Security Specialist
7 8 (6.06%) Security Consultant
7 8 (6.06%) Security Operations Specialist
8 7 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Security Manager
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Security Analyst
8 7 (5.30%) SOC Analyst
8 7 (5.30%) Unix Specialist
8 7 (5.30%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.79%) LDAP
2 4 (3.03%) OLE
3 2 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.76%) EDI
4 1 (0.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (31.06%) Management Information System
2 12 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 11 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.82%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (5.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (3.79%) Clustering
6 5 (3.79%) Replication
7 4 (3.03%) IoT
7 4 (3.03%) YARA
8 3 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.52%) CSOC
9 2 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.27%) Windows
2 28 (21.21%) Linux
3 22 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 12 (9.09%) Unix
5 10 (7.58%) Windows 10
6 9 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (3.79%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (3.79%) Solaris
8 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.12%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (34.09%) SIEM
3 37 (28.03%) Incident Response
4 36 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 35 (26.52%) Information Security
6 25 (18.94%) Data Loss Prevention
6 25 (18.94%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 24 (18.18%) Data Security
8 23 (17.42%) Penetration Testing
9 16 (12.12%) DevOps
9 16 (12.12%) Incident Management
10 15 (11.36%) Application Security
10 15 (11.36%) Cloud Security
10 15 (11.36%) Risk Management
11 14 (10.61%) ITIL
11 14 (10.61%) Security Testing
11 14 (10.61%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 13 (9.85%) Agile
12 13 (9.85%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 12 (9.09%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.06%) Python
3 5 (3.79%) Bash
4 2 (1.52%) Bicep
5 1 (0.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.09%) CISSP
2 10 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) CISM
3 7 (5.30%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.55%) Degree
5 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.03%) CRISC
6 2 (1.52%) CEH
6 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.52%) GCIH
6 2 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.76%) CBAP
7 1 (0.76%) CISA
7 1 (0.76%) CLAS
7 1 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) GCIA
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) MCP
7 1 (0.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.15%) NIST
2 19 (14.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (10.61%) GDPR
4 9 (6.82%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (4.55%) SLA
6 5 (3.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (2.27%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (1.52%) GRC
8 2 (1.52%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.76%) COBIT
9 1 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (18.94%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.79%) Docker
4 4 (3.03%) Snort
5 3 (2.27%) XenApp
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (12.12%) SCCM
2 14 (10.61%) Ansible
3 11 (8.33%) Terraform
4 7 (5.30%) Nessus
5 6 (4.55%) Kibana
6 5 (3.79%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (3.79%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.79%) Netcool
6 5 (3.79%) Tivoli
6 5 (3.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.03%) Puppet
8 2 (1.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.52%) logstash
8 2 (1.52%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.52%) Nexpose
8 2 (1.52%) Packer
8 2 (1.52%) Salt
9 1 (0.76%) Matomo
Vendors
1 51 (38.64%) Qualys
2 45 (34.09%) Microsoft
3 27 (20.45%) VMware
4 17 (12.88%) Varonis
5 16 (12.12%) Forcepoint
5 16 (12.12%) LogRhythm
6 15 (11.36%) Splunk
7 10 (7.58%) Cisco
8 8 (6.06%) CA
9 7 (5.30%) Google
9 7 (5.30%) IBM
10 6 (4.55%) CyberArk
10 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
11 5 (3.79%) Dell
11 5 (3.79%) EMC
11 5 (3.79%) HP
11 5 (3.79%) Isilon
11 5 (3.79%) Oracle
11 5 (3.79%) Serena
12 4 (3.03%) Red Hat