Hybrid/Remote Vulnerability Remediation Contract Job Trends

Vulnerability Remediation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 302 341
Rank change year-on-year +25 +39 +157
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 43 18 36
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 14 25
10th Percentile £330 £209 £381
25th Percentile £400 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £540
90th Percentile £758 £668 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.41% -3.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Vulnerability Remediation 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 9,314 10,467 15,096
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.97% 89.07% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,154 6,589 10,309
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 212 365
10th Percentile £15.26 £17.58 £19.54
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -31.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £71.90
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Vulnerability Remediation daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.33%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) AWS
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) GitHub
4 2 (4.65%) Mimecast
4 2 (4.65%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.65%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.33%) Datadog
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
1 3 (6.98%) IPsec
1 3 (6.98%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) MQTT
2 1 (2.33%) NetScaler
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) SSL
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) MSI
2 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (13.95%) Architect
2 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 5 (11.63%) Security Architect
3 4 (9.30%) Analyst
3 4 (9.30%) Consultant
3 4 (9.30%) Lead
4 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Security Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Senior
4 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Administrator
5 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) GDPR Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Support
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) Middleware
2 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.33%) ADO
3 1 (2.33%) JWT
3 1 (2.33%) LDAP
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth
3 1 (2.33%) React
3 1 (2.33%) SAML
3 1 (2.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
1 4 (9.30%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.98%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.65%) SCADA
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.33%) Tandem
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (48.84%) Windows
2 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.95%) Linux
4 3 (6.98%) Android
4 3 (6.98%) Unix
5 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) Vulnerability Management
2 14 (32.56%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 8 (18.60%) Patch Management
5 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
5 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) SIEM
6 6 (13.95%) Architectural Design
6 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security
6 6 (13.95%) DevOps
6 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.63%) Incident Response
7 5 (11.63%) ITIL
7 5 (11.63%) Service Delivery
8 4 (9.30%) Agile
8 4 (9.30%) Data Management
8 4 (9.30%) Penetration Testing
8 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
4 1 (2.33%) C#
4 1 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) CISSP
2 2 (4.65%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.33%) CEH
3 1 (2.33%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (2.33%) CISM
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) CREST Certified
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) MCSA
3 1 (2.33%) MCSE
3 1 (2.33%) OSCP
3 1 (2.33%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) NIST
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.65%) NCSC
5 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) SCCM
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (9.30%) Nessus
4 3 (6.98%) Terraform
5 2 (4.65%) Ansible
5 2 (4.65%) Grafana
5 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.65%) SCOrch
6 1 (2.33%) CASB
6 1 (2.33%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (2.33%) Nmap
6 1 (2.33%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.33%) QRadar
6 1 (2.33%) SCOM
6 1 (2.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) Qualys
3 4 (9.30%) Splunk
4 3 (6.98%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.98%) Tenable
5 2 (4.65%) Apple
5 2 (4.65%) BMC
5 2 (4.65%) Citrix
5 2 (4.65%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.65%) Rapid7
5 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) Adobe
6 1 (2.33%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.33%) Cadence
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco
6 1 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) McAfee
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Remedy
6 1 (2.33%) Symantec