Network Mapper (Nmap)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Nmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Nmap over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 699 821
Rank change year-on-year +119 +122 -113
Contract jobs citing Nmap 7 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.012% 0.011%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.14% 0.076% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £350 £550 £427
25th Percentile £400 £625 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £745 £493
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +51.27% -1.50%
75th Percentile £584 £790 £514
90th Percentile £600 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £650 -
% change year-on-year -9.62% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Nmap is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,068 9,241 14,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 16.03% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 6,639 10,128
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £562 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% -0.53% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 205 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.80 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Nmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Nmap in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Nmap.

Daily rate trend for Nmap in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Nmap over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Nmap in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Nmap.

Hourly rate trend for Nmap in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nmap within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +115 7 £563 -26.71% 4
London +84 4 £450 -43.04% 2
Work from Home +117 3 £575 -27.22% 6
UK excluding London +65 2 £588 -9.62% 3
North of England +25 1 £575 - 2
East of England - 1 £600 -
North West - 1 £575 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Wireshark
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) DHCP
4 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 2 (28.57%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (28.57%) SNMP
4 2 (28.57%) tcpdump
4 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Application Security
3 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Red Team
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Nessus
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) OpenNMS
3 1 (14.29%) HP Fortify
3 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) LogRhythm
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk