Vulnerability Assessment Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 97 111
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 +36
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.24% 0.14% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -10.00% -
England median daily rate £616 £538 £580
% change year-on-year +14.65% -7.33% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,515 1,242 1,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.29% 84.66% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 727 1,159
10th Percentile £260 £295 £306
25th Percentile £380 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £651 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 38 30
10th Percentile £17.48 - £15.11
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.06
Median hourly rate £25.04 £19.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +28.40% -8.49% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.02
90th Percentile £78.38 £51.00 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Vulnerability Assessment
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire -22 3 £700 +21.74%
West Yorkshire -7 1 - - 5
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Akamai
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
1 3 (75.00%) HTTPS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Application Security
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Business Impact Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CEH
1 3 (75.00%) GIAC
1 3 (75.00%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Imperva