Threat and Vulnerability Management Contracts

Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat and Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat and 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 542 642 803
Rank change year-on-year +100 +161 -130
Contract jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management 37 52 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.091% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.10% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 43 42
10th Percentile £505 £377 £403
25th Percentile £550 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £744
90th Percentile £725 £697 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £559 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -7.84% +10.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat and 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Threat and Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management.

Daily rate trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management within the UK 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
England +107 31 £650 +15.56% 34
London +106 19 £650 +18.18% 15
UK excluding London +39 13 £559 -7.84% 23
Work from Home +102 12 £625 +19.05% 13
East of England +12 4 £700 +64.76% 3
North of England +21 2 £559 -7.84% 3
South East +20 2 £540 -0.69% 7
Midlands +13 2 £567 -7.65% 4
South West - 2 £628 - 4
Scotland +40 1 £500 +17.65%
West Midlands +20 1 - - 4
Yorkshire +19 1 £550 +4.76% 1
East Midlands +13 1 £567 -8.84%
North West +8 1 £567 -6.44% 2

Threat and Vulnerability Management
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 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.41%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.70%) SCCP
1 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) Security Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Consultant
3 5 (13.51%) Security Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Security Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Information Security Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Information Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Information Security Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Security Posture
2 6 (16.22%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.41%) Cyberattack
3 2 (5.41%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Insider Threat
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) Vulnerability Management
2 20 (54.05%) Security Operations
3 15 (40.54%) Application Security
3 15 (40.54%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (37.84%) Incident Response
5 13 (35.14%) Threat Modelling
6 12 (32.43%) Static Application Security Testing
7 11 (29.73%) Information Security
7 11 (29.73%) Security Testing
8 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
9 8 (21.62%) Threat Intelligence
10 7 (18.92%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 6 (16.22%) Agile
11 6 (16.22%) Cryptography
11 6 (16.22%) DevOps
11 6 (16.22%) SDLC
12 5 (13.51%) Identity Management
12 5 (13.51%) Patch Management
12 5 (13.51%) Project Planning
12 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) CISSP
4 6 (16.22%) CISM
5 3 (8.11%) CRISC
6 1 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.70%) CCSK
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (2.70%) Degree
6 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) GCIA
6 1 (2.70%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
3 3 (8.11%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.41%) GDPR
4 2 (5.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (2.70%) JSP 440
5 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Nessus
1 1 (2.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Varonis
3 4 (10.81%) Darktrace
3 4 (10.81%) Qualys
4 2 (5.41%) Checkmarx
4 2 (5.41%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) Rapid7
4 2 (5.41%) Sun
4 2 (5.41%) Veracode
5 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) SAP