Vulnerability Remediation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Vulnerability Remediation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 435 583
Rank change year-on-year +136 +148 -121
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 44 31 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 37
10th Percentile £401 £353 £363
25th Percentile £425 £389 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +6.28%
75th Percentile £614 £606 £569
90th Percentile £729 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -5.45% +6.80% +0.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Vulnerability Remediation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Remediation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Remediation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Vulnerability Remediation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Vulnerability Remediation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.45%) Entra ID
4 5 (11.36%) AWS
5 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.55%) Route 53
6 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.27%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.27%) Firewall
2 10 (22.73%) DNS
3 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.82%) VPN
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.55%) DHCP
4 2 (4.55%) Network Security
4 2 (4.55%) OSPF
4 2 (4.55%) SSL
5 1 (2.27%) BGP
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.27%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (2.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (43.18%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.09%) Banking
6 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Automotive
7 2 (4.55%) Electronics
7 2 (4.55%) Front Office
8 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Security Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Senior
3 9 (20.45%) Analyst
4 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Security Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Security Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 4 (9.09%) Unix Specialist
7 4 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 3 (6.82%) Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) IT Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 9 (20.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (13.64%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.82%) Cyberattack
5 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.27%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.27%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (36.36%) Windows
2 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 9 (20.45%) Windows Server
3 8 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 7 (15.91%) Unix
5 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 13 (29.55%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (27.27%) Information Security
4 10 (22.73%) Penetration Testing
4 10 (22.73%) Security Patching
5 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (20.45%) ITIL
5 9 (20.45%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 8 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 8 (18.18%) DDoS Mitigation
6 8 (18.18%) Mobile Device Management
6 8 (18.18%) Remediation Plan
7 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.64%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (13.64%) Privileged Access Management
8 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
8 6 (13.64%) SIEM
9 5 (11.36%) Application Security
9 5 (11.36%) Business Impact Analysis
9 5 (11.36%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.55%) C++
2 2 (4.55%) VB.NET
2 2 (4.55%) VBScript
3 1 (2.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.82%) CISSP
4 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.55%) CISM
4 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CCNP
5 1 (2.27%) CEH
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) SANS
5 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (13.64%) SLA
3 5 (11.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (4.55%) Automotive SPICE
4 2 (4.55%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (4.55%) ISO 9001
4 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (4.55%) NIST
5 1 (2.27%) COBIT
5 1 (2.27%) GDPR
5 1 (2.27%) GRC
5 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.55%) vSphere
4 1 (2.27%) Docker
4 1 (2.27%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) SCCM
2 5 (11.36%) Ansible
3 4 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 4 (9.09%) Puppet
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.55%) Nexpose
4 2 (4.55%) Salt
4 2 (4.55%) WSUS
5 1 (2.27%) CASB
5 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.27%) Grafana
5 1 (2.27%) Graylog
5 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.27%) Nagios
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (43.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (29.55%) Qualys
2 13 (29.55%) VMware
3 8 (18.18%) CA
4 5 (11.36%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.82%) Palo Alto
6 3 (6.82%) Rapid7
7 2 (4.55%) Cisco
7 2 (4.55%) SaltStack
8 1 (2.27%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (2.27%) Checkmarx
8 1 (2.27%) F5
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle
8 1 (2.27%) Siebel
8 1 (2.27%) Sophos
8 1 (2.27%) Splunk
8 1 (2.27%) Veeam