Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in England

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 570 605
Rank change year-on-year +118 +35 -29
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 85 67 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 40 110
10th Percentile £401 £389 £350
25th Percentile £463 £484 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +5.00% -6.19%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £570
90th Percentile £733 £744 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.18% +4.76% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,578 42,765 64,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.86% 89.99% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,635 30,003 45,576
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £449 £431
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 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,521 1,733
10th Percentile £12.84 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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 +89 48 £588 +11.90% 23
South West +23 17 £535 -0.47% 2
South East +4 5 £463 -15.91% 6
East of England - 4 £625 - 3
North of England +29 2 £488 -2.50% 11
North West +23 2 £488 -2.50% 4
Midlands +10 1 £260 -56.67% 2
West Midlands +9 1 £260 -60.75% 1
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
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 (1.18%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.82%) Azure
2 14 (16.47%) GCP
3 12 (14.12%) AWS
4 9 (10.59%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.35%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.18%) IaaS
8 1 (1.18%) PaaS
8 1 (1.18%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 31 (36.47%) Firewall
2 7 (8.24%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (7.06%) DNS
4 3 (3.53%) DHCP
4 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.53%) VPN
4 3 (3.53%) Wireless
5 2 (2.35%) Network Security
6 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.18%) LAN
6 1 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) GitLab
1 15 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.71%) Git
3 1 (1.18%) JIRA
3 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Finance
3 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.41%) Banking
5 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) Legal
8 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
8 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (16.47%) Analyst
2 13 (15.29%) Architect
2 13 (15.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (15.29%) Security Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) Network Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) Security Architect
4 9 (10.59%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Senior
6 7 (8.24%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Security Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (7.06%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (3.53%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (2.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (2.35%) Designer
9 2 (2.35%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) JSON
1 3 (3.53%) XML
2 2 (2.35%) Ajax
2 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.35%) CSS
2 2 (2.35%) HTML
2 2 (2.35%) OAuth
2 2 (2.35%) SAML
2 2 (2.35%) SOAP
2 2 (2.35%) Web Services
3 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.18%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.18%) JWT
3 1 (1.18%) Kafka
3 1 (1.18%) Laravel
3 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.18%) OpenID
3 1 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Data Centre
1 13 (15.29%) Private Cloud
2 10 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (7.06%) Security Posture
5 5 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.71%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.35%) CMDB
8 1 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.18%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.18%) PKI
8 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Linux
2 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.18%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) Penetration Testing
2 37 (43.53%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (36.47%) Information Security
4 28 (32.94%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (29.41%) SIEM
6 23 (27.06%) Vulnerability Management
7 22 (25.88%) DevOps
7 22 (25.88%) DevSecOps
7 22 (25.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (22.35%) CI/CD
9 18 (21.18%) Cloud Security
10 17 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 17 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (16.47%) Containerisation
11 14 (16.47%) Incident Response
12 13 (15.29%) Resource Management
12 13 (15.29%) Security Operations
12 13 (15.29%) Threat Modelling
12 13 (15.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 11 (12.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.06%) Python
2 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.53%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.35%) Bicep
4 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.18%) Bash
5 1 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.00%) Degree
4 14 (16.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (9.41%) CISSP
6 4 (4.71%) CISM
6 4 (4.71%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.35%) CEH
7 2 (2.35%) CISA
7 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.18%) CCNA
8 1 (1.18%) CCSP
8 1 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (15.29%) NIST
2 9 (10.59%) GDPR
3 8 (9.41%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.71%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.35%) COBIT
5 2 (2.35%) ISO 22301
5 2 (2.35%) NCSC
6 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (15.29%) vSphere
3 10 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.88%) Docker
5 3 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.35%) Firmware
7 1 (1.18%) Snort
7 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (25.88%) Terraform
2 12 (14.12%) vCenter Server
3 9 (10.59%) Kubernetes
4 7 (8.24%) SCCM
5 4 (4.71%) Ansible
5 4 (4.71%) WSUS
6 3 (3.53%) Nessus
7 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.18%) AirWatch
8 1 (1.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (1.18%) Nmap
8 1 (1.18%) OpenVAS
8 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (21.18%) VMware
2 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (12.94%) Google
4 6 (7.06%) Qualys
5 3 (3.53%) CA
5 3 (3.53%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.35%) Cisco
6 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.35%) Sophos
6 2 (2.35%) Splunk
7 1 (1.18%) Apple
7 1 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.18%) Lotus
7 1 (1.18%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.18%) Varonis