Vulnerability Management Contracts in the Midlands

Vulnerability Management
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management 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 118 113 183
Rank change year-on-year -5 +70 -45
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 19 42 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.71% 1.27% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 16
10th Percentile £392 £372 £438
25th Percentile £406 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +4.35% +53.33%
75th Percentile £567 £650 £641
90th Percentile £728 £810 £750
England median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Vulnerability Management 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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,205 2,903 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.06% 88.08% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,037 3,263
10th Percentile £235 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 103 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.26 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +26.98% +15.14%
75th Percentile £33.25 £37.66 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the Midlands

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the Midlands

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the Midlands

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +6 17 £438 -23.91% 10
East Midlands +12 2 £596 -1.65% 2
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) tcpdump
2 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 11 (57.89%) Legal
2 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Analyst
2 11 (57.89%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.26%) DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Information Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Junior
4 1 (5.26%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Security Incident Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
1 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Linux
2 11 (57.89%) Mac OS X
3 3 (15.79%) Windows
4 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Cybersecurity
1 15 (78.95%) SIEM
2 13 (68.42%) Risk Management
3 12 (63.16%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 12 (63.16%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 12 (63.16%) Reverse Engineering
4 11 (57.89%) Computer Forensics
4 11 (57.89%) Incident Management
4 11 (57.89%) Purple Team
4 11 (57.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (57.89%) Threat Analysis
5 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (26.32%) Line Management
7 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.79%) Information Security
8 2 (10.53%) Application Security
8 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (10.53%) Security Operations
8 2 (10.53%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.26%) CCSP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (73.68%) NIST
2 12 (63.16%) GDPR
2 12 (63.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (57.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 11 (57.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Qualys
1 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.26%) F5
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Rapid7