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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 319 454
Rank change year-on-year +37 +135 +2
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 337 440 455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.78% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.88% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 330 350
10th Percentile £389 £413 £409
25th Percentile £425 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.51% +12.87%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £521
% change year-on-year -5.45% +5.57% +12.65%
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% -5.74%
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +29 292 £550 -2.22% 138
London +78 152 £550 -2.22% 58
UK excluding London -6 150 £520 -5.45% 76
Work from Home +85 131 £510 -7.27% 56
South East +50 68 £450 -21.74% 24
Midlands +3 23 £513 -15.01% 12
Scotland +32 20 £525 +14.50% 4
West Midlands -2 18 £438 -23.91% 4
South West -22 18 £550 +10.00% 8
East of England +9 15 £675 +50.00% 3
North of England -12 12 £567 +3.09% 25
Yorkshire +7 6 £550 +4.76% 12
North West -2 6 £659 +11.05% 12
East Midlands +10 5 £625 +3.14% 8
Wales +16 2 £406 -18.75%

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 10 (2.97%) Confluence
2 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.59%) IIS
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 63 (18.69%) Azure
2 41 (12.17%) AWS
3 28 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (6.53%) Entra ID
5 13 (3.86%) GCP
6 9 (2.67%) GitHub
7 8 (2.37%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.08%) SaaS
9 6 (1.78%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.48%) IaaS
10 5 (1.48%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.48%) PaaS
10 5 (1.48%) Rubrik
10 5 (1.48%) Slack
11 4 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.19%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 69 (20.47%) Firewall
2 33 (9.79%) DNS
3 24 (7.12%) Network Security
4 17 (5.04%) DHCP
5 15 (4.45%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 8 (2.37%) Internet
7 8 (2.37%) SAN
7 8 (2.37%) VPN
7 8 (2.37%) WAN
8 6 (1.78%) VLAN
9 5 (1.48%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.48%) LAN
9 5 (1.48%) NAS
9 5 (1.48%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.19%) tcpdump
10 4 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.89%) OSPF
11 3 (0.89%) SCCP
11 3 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.78%) Apache Hive
2 6 (1.78%) Hadoop
3 5 (1.48%) Tableau
4 4 (1.19%) Metadata
4 4 (1.19%) Power BI
5 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
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%) Data Lake
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%) PolyBase
Development Applications
1 21 (6.23%) JIRA
2 10 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.08%) Burp Suite
4 6 (1.78%) Git
5 5 (1.48%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.19%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (0.59%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.30%) GitLab
8 1 (0.30%) Selenium
8 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 81 (24.04%) Finance
2 51 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 22 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.93%) Banking
6 18 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.45%) Legal
8 13 (3.86%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.78%) Electronics
10 6 (1.78%) Marketing
10 6 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.89%) Retail
13 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Law
13 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.30%) Advertising
14 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (20.18%) Analyst
2 48 (14.24%) Security Engineer
3 34 (10.09%) Consultant
4 28 (8.31%) SOC Analyst
5 25 (7.42%) Security Analyst
6 24 (7.12%) Architect
6 24 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (6.82%) Lead
7 23 (6.82%) Security Consultant
7 23 (6.82%) Senior
8 22 (6.53%) Security Architect
9 20 (5.93%) Security Manager
10 18 (5.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 16 (4.75%) Vulnerability Specialist
12 15 (4.45%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 14 (4.15%) Security Specialist
13 14 (4.15%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (3.86%) Project Manager
15 12 (3.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 11 (3.26%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.78%) Kafka
2 5 (1.48%) LDAP
3 4 (1.19%) OLE
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Avro
4 2 (0.59%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.59%) EDI
4 2 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.51%) Management Information System
2 32 (9.50%) Security Posture
3 24 (7.12%) Cyber Threat
4 22 (6.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (5.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 13 (3.86%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (2.97%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.08%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.78%) Clustering
10 6 (1.78%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.78%) Replication
11 5 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.48%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.19%) IoT
12 4 (1.19%) YARA
13 3 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (22.55%) Windows
2 52 (15.43%) Linux
3 44 (13.06%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.45%) Unix
5 14 (4.15%) Windows 10
6 11 (3.26%) Mac OS X
7 10 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (2.08%) VMS
10 5 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (1.48%) Solaris
11 4 (1.19%) zOS
12 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (39.47%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (32.94%) SIEM
3 87 (25.82%) Information Security
4 84 (24.93%) Incident Response
4 84 (24.93%) Security Operations
5 51 (15.13%) Risk Management
6 43 (12.76%) Incident Management
6 43 (12.76%) Penetration Testing
7 42 (12.46%) Data Security
8 40 (11.87%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 39 (11.57%) Application Security
10 37 (10.98%) Data Loss Prevention
11 36 (10.68%) Cloud Security
11 36 (10.68%) Threat Intelligence
12 33 (9.79%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 29 (8.61%) ITIL
13 29 (8.61%) Static Application Security Testing
14 27 (8.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 27 (8.01%) MITRE ATT&CK
15 26 (7.72%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.12%) PowerShell
2 12 (3.56%) Python
3 5 (1.48%) Bash
4 4 (1.19%) Go
4 4 (1.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.89%) SQL
6 2 (0.59%) Bicep
6 2 (0.59%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.30%) C#
Qualifications
1 47 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.90%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.61%) CISSP
4 22 (6.53%) Degree
5 18 (5.34%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.97%) CISM
6 10 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.37%) GIAC
7 8 (2.37%) ISACA
8 7 (2.08%) CEH
9 4 (1.19%) CRISC
9 4 (1.19%) GCIH
10 3 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
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 65 (19.29%) NIST
2 57 (16.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (12.46%) GDPR
4 18 (5.34%) PCI DSS
5 14 (4.15%) HIPAA
6 11 (3.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (3.26%) COBIT
7 9 (2.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.78%) NIST 800
10 6 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.78%) SLA
11 5 (1.48%) NCSC
12 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
12 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (1.19%) QA
13 3 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.89%) GRC
14 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 51 (15.13%) Active Directory
2 35 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.86%) XenApp
4 11 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.48%) Docker
5 5 (1.48%) Firmware
6 4 (1.19%) Snort
7 3 (0.89%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.89%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (8.01%) SCCM
2 16 (4.75%) Ansible
3 14 (4.15%) Nessus
3 14 (4.15%) Terraform
4 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.08%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.78%) Kibana
7 5 (1.48%) CASB
7 5 (1.48%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (1.48%) Netcool
7 5 (1.48%) Tivoli
7 5 (1.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.19%) Puppet
8 4 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.89%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.89%) WSUS
10 2 (0.59%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.59%) Oozie
10 2 (0.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 97 (28.78%) Microsoft
2 70 (20.77%) Qualys
3 51 (15.13%) VMware
4 29 (8.61%) Splunk
5 21 (6.23%) Varonis
6 16 (4.75%) Forcepoint
6 16 (4.75%) LogRhythm
7 14 (4.15%) Cisco
7 14 (4.15%) Citrix
8 10 (2.97%) Google
8 10 (2.97%) Rapid7
9 9 (2.67%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.67%) Veracode
10 8 (2.37%) CA
10 8 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (2.37%) Ivanti
10 8 (2.37%) SAP
10 8 (2.37%) Veeam
11 7 (2.08%) IBM
11 7 (2.08%) Virgin Media