Vulnerability Scanning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 422 528
Rank change year-on-year +115 +106 -70
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 30 45 97
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 69
10th Percentile £298 £517 £361
25th Percentile £425 £600 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £667 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +27.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £560
90th Percentile £675 £784 £638
UK median daily rate £549 £588 £522
% change year-on-year -6.55% +12.60% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £39.38
90th Percentile - - £45.75
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Vulnerability Scanning 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 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Vulnerability Scanning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Vulnerability Scanning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning.

Vulnerability Scanning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Vulnerability Scanning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning.

Vulnerability Scanning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
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 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (6.67%) AWS KMS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) GitLab
1 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Architect
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
2 4 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Developer
4 2 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) IT Security Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Security Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Security Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) JSON
1 3 (10.00%) XML
2 2 (6.67%) Ajax
2 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) SOAP
2 2 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.33%) SAML
3 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (6.67%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.33%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Information Security
2 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (30.00%) SIEM
3 8 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (26.67%) DevSecOps
3 8 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 8 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
4 7 (23.33%) Security Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 6 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.33%) Application Security
7 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) Go
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.33%) Ruby
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
3 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.67%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) CCSP
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Snort
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (10.00%) SCCM
5 2 (6.67%) Nessus
6 1 (3.33%) Argo
6 1 (3.33%) CASB
6 1 (3.33%) HP Fortify
6 1 (3.33%) Istio
6 1 (3.33%) Nmap
6 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Qualys
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) CA
4 2 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Rapid7
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto