Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 399 466
Rank change year-on-year +47 +67 -43
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 26 36 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 29
10th Percentile £349 £409 £323
25th Percentile £413 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £567 £626 £530
90th Percentile £673 £644 £580
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% -1.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South East +25 10 £413 -35.29% 3
Scotland - 9 £515 - 1
Wales +20 3 £643 +42.78% 2
North of England +19 2 £834 +37.54% 1
Midlands +19 1 £567 -1.90% 5
North West +16 1 £567 -6.44% 1
Yorkshire +16 1 £1,100 +158.82%
East Midlands +11 1 £567 -7.65% 2
South West - 1 £600 - 1
Vulnerability Remediation
UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.85%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) DHCP
2 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) Firewall
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
4 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.85%) SSL
4 1 (3.85%) VLAN
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) MySQL
1 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
1 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Burp Suite
1 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.85%) AppScan
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Front Office
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 9 (34.62%) Security Analyst
2 8 (30.77%) Senior
3 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Security Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Security Architect
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Security Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Information Risk Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Security Officer
7 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Linux
3 3 (11.54%) Ubuntu
3 3 (11.54%) Unix
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Information Security
1 13 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 12 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (42.31%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (42.31%) SIEM
4 10 (38.46%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 9 (34.62%) Business Impact Analysis
5 9 (34.62%) Impact Analysis
5 9 (34.62%) Incident Management
5 9 (34.62%) Privileged Access Management
5 9 (34.62%) Security Monitoring
5 9 (34.62%) Technical Analysis
5 9 (34.62%) Use Case
6 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Application Security
8 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 4 (15.38%) Line Management
9 3 (11.54%) Patch Management
9 3 (11.54%) Security Hardening
9 3 (11.54%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) VB.NET
3 2 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) PHP
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.69%) SANS
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (34.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (11.54%) ISO 9001
3 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (11.54%) SLA
4 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (3.85%) COBIT
5 1 (3.85%) NIST
5 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (15.38%) vSphere
2 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) WSUS
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) Graylog
3 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Nagios
3 2 (7.69%) Nessus
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) HP Fortify
4 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.85%) Puppet
4 1 (3.85%) SCCM
4 1 (3.85%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Checkmarx
3 2 (7.69%) Qualys
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Avaya
4 1 (3.85%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) Veracode