Vulnerability Management Contracts in England

Vulnerability Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 301 447
Rank change year-on-year +27 +146 -13
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 306 383 378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.81% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.91% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 288 296
10th Percentile £380 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £659 £675
90th Percentile £775 £748 £739
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% -9.09% +30.95%
75th Percentile £58.75 £27.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +130.00% -13.04% +36.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +67 162 £575 - 38
South East +57 72 £450 -21.74% 21
Midlands -11 22 £513 -10.87% 14
South West -27 18 £550 +12.82% 7
West Midlands -6 17 £438 -23.91% 6
East of England +8 14 £594 +31.94% 4
North of England -18 14 £567 +3.09% 20
North West -7 9 £567 -4.38% 11
East Midlands +5 5 £625 +3.14% 8
Yorkshire +2 5 £516 -1.71% 9
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (2.29%) Confluence
2 2 (0.65%) IIS
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 59 (19.28%) Azure
2 39 (12.75%) AWS
3 26 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (6.86%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.92%) GCP
6 8 (2.61%) GitHub
7 6 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.63%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.63%) IaaS
8 5 (1.63%) Nutanix
8 5 (1.63%) PaaS
8 5 (1.63%) Rubrik
8 5 (1.63%) SaaS
9 4 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.31%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.31%) Slack
10 3 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 60 (19.61%) Firewall
2 31 (10.13%) DNS
3 21 (6.86%) Network Security
4 16 (5.23%) DHCP
5 11 (3.59%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.94%) SAN
6 9 (2.94%) WAN
7 8 (2.61%) Internet
7 8 (2.61%) VPN
8 6 (1.96%) LAN
8 6 (1.96%) VLAN
9 5 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.63%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.63%) NAS
10 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.31%) Wireless
11 3 (0.98%) OSPF
11 3 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.65%) BGP
12 2 (0.65%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.31%) Metadata
2 4 (1.31%) Power BI
3 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Hive
3 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.65%) Tableau
4 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.33%) Big Data
4 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.33%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.33%) HBase
4 1 (0.33%) IBM BigInsights
4 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.33%) Parquet
4 1 (0.33%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 20 (6.54%) JIRA
2 9 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.29%) Burp Suite
4 6 (1.96%) Git
5 5 (1.63%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.31%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.33%) GitLab
8 1 (0.33%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 75 (24.51%) Finance
2 49 (16.01%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.21%) Telecoms
5 15 (4.90%) Banking
6 13 (4.25%) Legal
7 10 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.27%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.29%) Electronics
8 7 (2.29%) Marketing
9 5 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.98%) Retail
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Automotive
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
11 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (19.61%) Analyst
2 44 (14.38%) Security Engineer
3 29 (9.48%) Consultant
4 27 (8.82%) SOC Analyst
5 23 (7.52%) Lead
6 21 (6.86%) Architect
7 20 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (6.54%) Security Consultant
8 19 (6.21%) Security Architect
9 18 (5.88%) Security Analyst
10 17 (5.56%) Senior
11 16 (5.23%) Vulnerability Specialist
12 14 (4.58%) Security Manager
12 14 (4.58%) Security Specialist
12 14 (4.58%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 12 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 11 (3.59%) Administrator
14 11 (3.59%) Project Manager
14 11 (3.59%) Security Operations Specialist
15 10 (3.27%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.63%) LDAP
2 3 (0.98%) Kafka
3 2 (0.65%) EDI
3 2 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.33%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.33%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.33%) OLE
4 1 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.38%) Management Information System
2 31 (10.13%) Security Posture
3 21 (6.86%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (4.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 14 (4.58%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (3.92%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (3.27%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.29%) Cyberattack
9 7 (2.29%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.96%) Clustering
10 6 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.96%) Replication
11 5 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.63%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.31%) IoT
12 4 (1.31%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.98%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 70 (22.88%) Windows
2 44 (14.38%) Linux
3 43 (14.05%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.90%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.25%) Unix
6 10 (3.27%) Mac OS X
6 10 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.29%) VMS
9 5 (1.63%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (1.63%) Solaris
10 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (37.58%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (30.72%) SIEM
3 72 (23.53%) Incident Response
3 72 (23.53%) Security Operations
4 71 (23.20%) Information Security
5 42 (13.73%) Risk Management
6 38 (12.42%) Application Security
6 38 (12.42%) Data Security
7 34 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
8 33 (10.78%) Threat Intelligence
9 32 (10.46%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 30 (9.80%) ITIL
11 28 (9.15%) Cloud Security
11 28 (9.15%) Incident Management
11 28 (9.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 27 (8.82%) Penetration Testing
13 26 (8.50%) Identity Access Management
13 26 (8.50%) Static Application Security Testing
13 26 (8.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 25 (8.17%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.15%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.25%) Python
3 5 (1.63%) Bash
3 5 (1.63%) SQL
4 4 (1.31%) Go
4 4 (1.31%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.65%) Bicep
6 1 (0.33%) C#
6 1 (0.33%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.54%) CISSP
4 19 (6.21%) Degree
5 18 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.61%) ISACA
8 7 (2.29%) CISM
9 6 (1.96%) GIAC
10 5 (1.63%) CEH
11 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.65%) CRISC
12 2 (0.65%) SANS
13 1 (0.33%) CCSE
13 1 (0.33%) CISA
13 1 (0.33%) GCIA
13 1 (0.33%) GCIH
13 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (17.97%) NIST
2 39 (12.75%) GDPR
3 37 (12.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.23%) PCI DSS
5 13 (4.25%) HIPAA
6 11 (3.59%) COBIT
7 10 (3.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.96%) NIST 800
10 6 (1.96%) QA
10 6 (1.96%) SLA
11 5 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.98%) NCSC
13 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 49 (16.01%) Active Directory
2 35 (11.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (3.59%) XenApp
4 5 (1.63%) Docker
4 5 (1.63%) Firmware
5 4 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.33%) Snort
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (8.17%) SCCM
2 15 (4.90%) Ansible
3 14 (4.58%) Nessus
3 14 (4.58%) Terraform
4 9 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.29%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.63%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (1.63%) Netcool
7 5 (1.63%) Tivoli
7 5 (1.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.31%) CASB
8 4 (1.31%) Puppet
8 4 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.31%) WSUS
9 3 (0.98%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.98%) Kibana
10 2 (0.65%) logstash
10 2 (0.65%) Salt
10 2 (0.65%) systemd
Vendors
1 101 (33.01%) Microsoft
2 66 (21.57%) Qualys
3 50 (16.34%) VMware
4 23 (7.52%) Splunk
5 21 (6.86%) Varonis
6 16 (5.23%) Forcepoint
6 16 (5.23%) LogRhythm
7 15 (4.90%) Cisco
8 12 (3.92%) Citrix
9 9 (2.94%) Google
9 9 (2.94%) Rapid7
9 9 (2.94%) Veracode
10 8 (2.61%) CA
10 8 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (2.61%) Ivanti
10 8 (2.61%) SAP
10 8 (2.61%) Veeam
11 7 (2.29%) Dell
11 7 (2.29%) IBM
11 7 (2.29%) ServiceNow