Vulnerability Scanning Contracts in London

Vulnerability Scanning
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 339 442 534
Rank change year-on-year +103 +92 -82
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 47 45 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 24 56
10th Percentile £425 £364 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -6.19%
75th Percentile £626 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £761 £638
England median daily rate £560 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +5.00% -5.21%
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% -54.17%
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Scanning in London

Vulnerability Scanning
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +35 3 £498 -0.60% 5
West London - 2 £325 -
South London - 1 £475 -
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (31.91%) GCP
2 10 (21.28%) Azure
3 8 (17.02%) AWS
4 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.26%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) Firewall
2 5 (10.64%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) DHCP
3 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.13%) VPN
4 1 (2.13%) Wireless
4 1 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) GitLab
1 15 (31.91%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Publishing
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Architect
2 9 (19.15%) Security Architect
3 8 (17.02%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Analyst
5 6 (12.77%) Security Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior
6 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 3 (6.38%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Security Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) Security Manager
8 3 (6.38%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (4.26%) Information Security Analyst
9 2 (4.26%) IT Security Manager
9 2 (4.26%) IT Security Project Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Security Project Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) Ajax
1 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.13%) CSS
1 1 (2.13%) HTML
1 1 (2.13%) JSON
1 1 (2.13%) OpenID
1 1 (2.13%) SAML
1 1 (2.13%) SOAP
1 1 (2.13%) Web Services
1 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.26%) PKI
3 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.13%) CMDB
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
2 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) Information Security
2 21 (44.68%) DevOps
3 20 (42.55%) DevSecOps
4 19 (40.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (34.04%) CI/CD
6 15 (31.91%) Penetration Testing
6 15 (31.91%) SIEM
7 14 (29.79%) Computer Science
7 14 (29.79%) Containerisation
8 13 (27.66%) Cloud Security
8 13 (27.66%) Vulnerability Management
9 12 (25.53%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (23.40%) Microservices
11 10 (21.28%) Threat Modelling
12 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (19.15%) Security Testing
13 8 (17.02%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 8 (17.02%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (17.02%) Static Application Security Testing
14 7 (14.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
1 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
1 2 (4.26%) Python
2 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Degree
2 12 (25.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.64%) CISSP
6 4 (8.51%) CISM
6 4 (8.51%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (4.26%) CISA
8 1 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.13%) CCNA CyberOps
8 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) NIST
2 6 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (10.64%) GDPR
4 2 (4.26%) COBIT
4 2 (4.26%) ISO 22301
4 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.64%) Docker
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (40.43%) Terraform
2 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.77%) SCCM
4 5 (10.64%) Ansible
5 3 (6.38%) WSUS
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.26%) Nessus
7 1 (2.13%) AirWatch
7 1 (2.13%) Nmap
7 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.13%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Google
2 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.64%) VMware
4 4 (8.51%) Qualys
5 3 (6.38%) CA
5 3 (6.38%) Rapid7
6 2 (4.26%) Sophos
7 1 (2.13%) Apple
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco
7 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.13%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.13%) Varonis