Vulnerability Remediation Contracts

Vulnerability Remediation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 596 713
Rank change year-on-year +82 +117 -88
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 76 103 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 73 99
10th Percentile £375 £386 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.76% +1.06%
75th Percentile £646 £600 £567
90th Percentile £725 £649 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £478
% change year-on-year -6.36% +15.18% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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 +72 54 £567 +3.09% 35
Work from Home +129 42 £500 -7.41% 17
London +85 39 £592 +7.59% 18
UK excluding London +43 24 £515 -6.36% 17
South East +25 9 £425 -33.33% 5
Scotland - 9 £515 - 1
Wales +19 3 £643 +42.78% 2
North of England +25 2 £834 +37.54% 2
Yorkshire +15 1 £1,100 +158.82%
East Midlands +15 1 £567 -7.65% 2
Midlands +15 1 £567 -1.90% 4
North West +10 1 £567 -6.44% 2

Vulnerability Remediation
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.89%) Azure
2 17 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (11.84%) AWS
4 8 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.26%) GCP
7 3 (3.95%) SaaS
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub
8 2 (2.63%) Google App Engine
8 2 (2.63%) Route 53
8 2 (2.63%) Serverless
8 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.32%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) Firewall
2 10 (13.16%) DNS
3 4 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.95%) DHCP
4 3 (3.95%) VPN
5 2 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.63%) Network Security
5 2 (2.63%) OSPF
5 2 (2.63%) SSL
6 1 (1.32%) BGP
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.32%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database
2 5 (6.58%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (3.95%) MySQL
3 3 (3.95%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Burp Suite
1 3 (3.95%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.63%) AppScan
2 2 (2.63%) Git
2 2 (2.63%) GitLab
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 21 (27.63%) Finance
2 11 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.84%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.58%) Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Front Office
7 2 (2.63%) Automotive
7 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Electronics
7 2 (2.63%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Advertising
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Publishing
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Analyst
2 15 (19.74%) Senior
3 14 (18.42%) Security Engineer
4 13 (17.11%) Security Analyst
5 10 (13.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (13.16%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.89%) Architect
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Security Analyst
6 6 (7.89%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 5 (6.58%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) IT Security Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Lead
8 4 (5.26%) Security Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Unix Specialist
8 4 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Vulnerability Specialist
9 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) .NET
1 3 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.32%) EDI
2 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 9 (11.84%) Security Posture
3 8 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (7.89%) Cyberattack
4 6 (7.89%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.58%) Market Risk
6 4 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.32%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (31.58%) Windows
2 14 (18.42%) Unix
3 12 (15.79%) Linux
4 10 (13.16%) Windows Server
5 7 (9.21%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.95%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (47.37%) Vulnerability Management
2 23 (30.26%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (28.95%) Information Security
4 17 (22.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 15 (19.74%) Penetration Testing
5 15 (19.74%) SIEM
6 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (14.47%) Security Operations
7 11 (14.47%) Security Patching
8 10 (13.16%) Privileged Access Management
8 10 (13.16%) Security Monitoring
9 9 (11.84%) Application Security
9 9 (11.84%) Business Impact Analysis
9 9 (11.84%) Computer Science
9 9 (11.84%) Impact Analysis
9 9 (11.84%) Incident Management
9 9 (11.84%) Incident Response
9 9 (11.84%) ITIL
9 9 (11.84%) Technical Analysis
9 9 (11.84%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.26%) Python
3 3 (3.95%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.63%) Bash
4 2 (2.63%) C++
4 2 (2.63%) Java
4 2 (2.63%) VBScript
5 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.95%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.95%) SANS
4 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.63%) CISSP
4 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CCNP
5 1 (1.32%) CEH
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CISM
5 1 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (11.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 7 (9.21%) SLA
4 3 (3.95%) ISO 9001
4 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (3.95%) QA
5 2 (2.63%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (2.63%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.32%) COBIT
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.32%) GDPR
6 1 (1.32%) GRC
6 1 (1.32%) NIST
6 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (22.37%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.95%) Docker
4 3 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.95%) vSphere
5 1 (1.32%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) SCCM
2 7 (9.21%) Ansible
3 6 (7.89%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.89%) Puppet
4 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (6.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (3.95%) Grafana
5 3 (3.95%) Graylog
5 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.95%) Nagios
5 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.95%) Terraform
5 3 (3.95%) WSUS
6 2 (2.63%) HP Fortify
6 2 (2.63%) Nessus
6 2 (2.63%) Nexpose
6 2 (2.63%) Salt
6 2 (2.63%) WebInspect
7 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.05%) Qualys
3 13 (17.11%) VMware
4 8 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (9.21%) CA
6 5 (6.58%) Oracle
7 4 (5.26%) Rapid7
7 4 (5.26%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.95%) Checkmarx
8 3 (3.95%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.95%) Splunk
9 2 (2.63%) Cisco
9 2 (2.63%) SaltStack
9 2 (2.63%) Veracode
10 1 (1.32%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (1.32%) Informatica
10 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.32%) Siebel
10 1 (1.32%) Sophos
10 1 (1.32%) Veeam