Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in England

Vulnerability Remediation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Vulnerability Remediation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 559 666
Rank change year-on-year +85 +107 -113
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 57 87 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 61 85
10th Percentile £375 £450 £363
25th Percentile £425 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +6.80% -1.90%
75th Percentile £660 £606 £554
90th Percentile £730 £663 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% -0.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Remediation 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in England.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London +90 39 £592 +7.59% 21
South East +29 10 £413 -35.29% 7
North of England +21 2 £834 +37.54% 3
Yorkshire +17 1 £1,100 +158.82%
East Midlands +12 1 £567 -7.65% 2
North West +9 1 £567 -6.44% 1
Midlands +3 1 £567 -1.90% 4
South West - 1 £600 - 2
Vulnerability Remediation
UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) Azure
2 16 (28.07%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (17.54%) AWS
4 9 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (5.26%) GCP
5 3 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.51%) Google App Engine
6 2 (3.51%) Route 53
6 2 (3.51%) Serverless
6 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) Firewall
2 11 (19.30%) DNS
3 5 (8.77%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.26%) DHCP
5 2 (3.51%) VLAN
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.75%) Network Security
6 1 (1.75%) OSPF
6 1 (1.75%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.75%) SSL
6 1 (1.75%) VPN
6 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) AppScan
1 1 (1.75%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) GitLab
1 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
1 1 (1.75%) Subversion
General
1 23 (40.35%) Finance
2 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Banking
3 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Front Office
4 2 (3.51%) Marketing
5 1 (1.75%) Advertising
5 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Publishing
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (19.30%) Analyst
1 11 (19.30%) Security Engineer
2 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 4 (7.02%) Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Unix Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) IT Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) IT Security Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Lead Security Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (1.75%) EDI
2 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 8 (14.04%) Management Information System
1 8 (14.04%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.77%) Cyberattack
3 5 (8.77%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.09%) Windows
2 14 (24.56%) Unix
3 9 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 8 (14.04%) Linux
4 8 (14.04%) Windows 10
5 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 13 (22.81%) Information Security
3 12 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (19.30%) Security Patching
5 10 (17.54%) ITIL
5 10 (17.54%) Security Operations
6 9 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
6 9 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
7 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
7 8 (14.04%) DDoS Mitigation
7 8 (14.04%) Incident Response
7 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.04%) Remediation Plan
7 8 (14.04%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
8 7 (12.28%) Migration
8 7 (12.28%) SIEM
9 6 (10.53%) Capacity Management
9 6 (10.53%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.26%) Python
2 3 (5.26%) VB.NET
3 2 (3.51%) C++
3 2 (3.51%) Java
3 2 (3.51%) VBScript
4 1 (1.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) CISSP
3 3 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.51%) CISM
5 1 (1.75%) CEH
5 1 (1.75%) SANS
5 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) SLA
2 3 (5.26%) ISO 9001
2 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.51%) NIST
3 2 (3.51%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.75%) COBIT
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 18 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.02%) vSphere
4 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.75%) Docker
5 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) SCCM
2 5 (8.77%) Ansible
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 5 (8.77%) Progress Chef
2 5 (8.77%) Puppet
3 4 (7.02%) WSUS
4 2 (3.51%) Nessus
4 2 (3.51%) Salt
5 1 (1.75%) CASB
5 1 (1.75%) Grafana
5 1 (1.75%) Graylog
5 1 (1.75%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.75%) Nagios
5 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.75%) SCOM
5 1 (1.75%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.75%) Terraform
5 1 (1.75%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 24 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (29.82%) Qualys
3 16 (28.07%) VMware
4 8 (14.04%) CA
5 5 (8.77%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (8.77%) Oracle
6 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco
7 2 (3.51%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.51%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.75%) Avaya
8 1 (1.75%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.75%) Dell
8 1 (1.75%) F5
8 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.75%) Informatica
8 1 (1.75%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.75%) Splunk
8 1 (1.75%) Veracode