Vulnerability Management Contracts

Vulnerability Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 322 461
Rank change year-on-year +24 +139 -51
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 337 464 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.78% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.86% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 335 340
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.13% +14.95%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.05% +4.76% +17.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -28.13%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £32.50
90th Percentile - - £37.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +36 288 £550 -4.35% 266
UK excluding London +30 152 £511 -7.05% 206
London +63 149 £588 +2.17% 58
Work from Home +88 140 £510 -10.33% 70
South East +53 65 £450 -23.63% 59
Scotland +37 24 £515 +13.19% 3
South West -12 24 £550 -4.35% 24
Midlands +14 18 £438 -25.53% 28
West Midlands +19 16 £438 -25.53% 18
East of England +17 16 £688 +52.78% 21
North of England 0 11 £559 -2.87% 72
Yorkshire +11 7 £550 -12.00% 20
North West +5 4 £567 +0.80% 50
East Midlands +22 2 £596 +0.89% 10
Wales +12 2 £406 -14.47% 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.56%) Confluence
2 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (18.10%) Azure
2 44 (13.06%) AWS
3 24 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.04%) GCP
5 15 (4.45%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.67%) GitHub
7 9 (2.67%) Power Platform
8 8 (2.37%) SaaS
9 7 (2.08%) IaaS
9 7 (2.08%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.08%) PaaS
9 7 (2.08%) Rubrik
10 6 (1.78%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.48%) Slack
11 5 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 58 (17.21%) Firewall
2 33 (9.79%) DNS
3 21 (6.23%) Network Security
4 20 (5.93%) DHCP
5 16 (4.75%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.37%) VLAN
7 7 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (2.08%) Kerberos
7 7 (2.08%) NAS
7 7 (2.08%) SAN
8 6 (1.78%) VPN
9 5 (1.48%) Internet
9 5 (1.48%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.19%) LAN
10 4 (1.19%) tcpdump
10 4 (1.19%) WAN
11 3 (0.89%) OSPF
11 3 (0.89%) SCCP
12 2 (0.59%) BGP
12 2 (0.59%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.67%) Power BI
3 6 (1.78%) Apache Hive
3 6 (1.78%) Hadoop
4 4 (1.19%) Metadata
4 4 (1.19%) Tableau
5 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.59%) Big Data
5 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.59%) Bigtable
5 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.59%) HBase
5 2 (0.59%) IBM BigInsights
5 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.59%) Parquet
5 2 (0.59%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 20 (5.93%) JIRA
2 13 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.08%) Git
3 7 (2.08%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.48%) Burp Suite
5 4 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (1.19%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (0.59%) GitLab
6 2 (0.59%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 79 (23.44%) Finance
2 49 (14.54%) Social Skills
3 35 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.04%) Banking
5 14 (4.15%) Legal
6 13 (3.86%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.86%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.78%) Electronics
8 6 (1.78%) Marketing
9 5 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.89%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.59%) Retail
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Automotive
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 81 (24.04%) Analyst
2 38 (11.28%) Security Engineer
3 35 (10.39%) SOC Analyst
4 34 (10.09%) Consultant
5 27 (8.01%) Security Analyst
6 25 (7.42%) Security Manager
7 23 (6.82%) Architect
7 23 (6.82%) Security Consultant
8 22 (6.53%) Senior
8 22 (6.53%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 20 (5.93%) Lead
9 20 (5.93%) Project Manager
10 19 (5.64%) Security Architect
11 18 (5.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 18 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (4.45%) Vulnerability Specialist
13 14 (4.15%) Security Project Manager
13 14 (4.15%) Security Specialist
14 13 (3.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 12 (3.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.08%) LDAP
2 4 (1.19%) Kafka
2 4 (1.19%) OLE
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Avro
3 2 (0.59%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.59%) EDI
3 2 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.13%) Management Information System
2 27 (8.01%) Security Posture
3 19 (5.64%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (5.34%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (4.15%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 10 (2.97%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (2.97%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 9 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.37%) Clustering
9 8 (2.37%) Replication
10 5 (1.48%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.19%) IoT
11 4 (1.19%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.19%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 70 (20.77%) Windows
2 50 (14.84%) Linux
3 41 (12.17%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.75%) Unix
5 13 (3.86%) Windows 10
6 11 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (2.97%) Mac OS X
8 9 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (2.08%) Solaris
9 7 (2.08%) VMS
10 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.59%) zOS
12 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (37.39%) Cybersecurity
2 109 (32.34%) SIEM
3 85 (25.22%) Information Security
4 83 (24.63%) Security Operations
5 79 (23.44%) Incident Response
6 45 (13.35%) Risk Management
7 42 (12.46%) Application Security
8 41 (12.17%) Incident Management
9 39 (11.57%) Data Security
10 35 (10.39%) Static Application Security Testing
10 35 (10.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 34 (10.09%) Data Loss Prevention
12 32 (9.50%) Penetration Testing
12 32 (9.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 29 (8.61%) Cloud Security
13 29 (8.61%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
14 27 (8.01%) Agile
14 27 (8.01%) DevOps
15 26 (7.72%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 25 (7.42%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.23%) PowerShell
2 12 (3.56%) Python
3 8 (2.37%) Bash
4 4 (1.19%) Go
4 4 (1.19%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.19%) SQL
5 2 (0.59%) U-SQL
6 1 (0.30%) C#
6 1 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 56 (16.62%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.50%) CISSP
3 30 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.72%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.04%) Degree
6 16 (4.75%) CISM
7 9 (2.67%) ISACA
8 6 (1.78%) GIAC
9 5 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.89%) CEH
10 3 (0.89%) CISA
10 3 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.89%) CRISC
11 2 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.59%) CCSP
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (15.43%) NIST
2 46 (13.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (10.68%) GDPR
4 13 (3.86%) PCI DSS
5 11 (3.26%) HIPAA
6 10 (2.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (2.97%) COBIT
7 9 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (2.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.78%) NIST 800
9 6 (1.78%) SLA
10 4 (1.19%) QA
11 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.89%) NCSC
12 2 (0.59%) GRC
12 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 43 (12.76%) Active Directory
2 32 (9.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.56%) XenApp
4 11 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.08%) Docker
6 4 (1.19%) Firmware
6 4 (1.19%) Snort
7 3 (0.89%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (6.23%) SCCM
2 18 (5.34%) Ansible
3 14 (4.15%) Terraform
4 11 (3.26%) Kubernetes
5 10 (2.97%) Nessus
6 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (2.08%) Netcool
7 7 (2.08%) Tivoli
7 7 (2.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (1.78%) Kibana
9 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.19%) Puppet
10 3 (0.89%) CASB
10 3 (0.89%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.59%) logstash
11 2 (0.59%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.59%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.59%) Packer
11 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 74 (21.96%) Qualys
3 46 (13.65%) VMware
4 26 (7.72%) Splunk
5 21 (6.23%) Varonis
6 16 (4.75%) Cisco
6 16 (4.75%) Forcepoint
6 16 (4.75%) LogRhythm
7 14 (4.15%) Citrix
8 11 (3.26%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.97%) Rapid7
10 9 (2.67%) CyberArk
10 9 (2.67%) Google
10 9 (2.67%) IBM
11 8 (2.37%) Dell
11 8 (2.37%) Veeam
12 7 (2.08%) CA
12 7 (2.08%) EMC
12 7 (2.08%) Oracle
12 7 (2.08%) Red Hat