Vulnerability Specialist Contracts in London

Vulnerability Specialist
England > London

The median Vulnerability Specialist daily rate in London is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 - 599
Rank change year-on-year - - -97
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Specialist 13 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% - 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £420 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.16%
75th Percentile £475 - £527
90th Percentile £535 - £533
England median daily rate £458 £650 £463
% change year-on-year -29.62% +40.54% -29.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Vulnerability Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Vulnerability Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Specialist in London

Vulnerability Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Specialist in London

Vulnerability Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Specialist in London

Vulnerability Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Specialist within the London 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
East London - 4 £440 -
Central London - 1 £600 -
Vulnerability Specialist
England

Vulnerability Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Vulnerability Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Vulnerability Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Qualys
2 12 (92.31%) Unix
2 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 12 (92.31%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (69.23%) ITIL
3 9 (69.23%) VMware
4 8 (61.54%) Finance
4 8 (61.54%) Ansible
4 8 (61.54%) Security Patching
5 6 (46.15%) ITSM
5 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
5 6 (46.15%) SLA
6 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
6 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
6 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (38.46%) AWS
6 5 (38.46%) Progress Chef
7 4 (30.77%) Threat Management
7 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (30.77%) Puppet
7 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
7 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
7 4 (30.77%) SCCM
7 4 (30.77%) Time Management
7 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
7 4 (30.77%) Windows
8 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (15.38%) SQL Server

Vulnerability Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Route 53
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
1 12 (92.31%) Unix
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) CentOS
3 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Vulnerability Management
2 9 (69.23%) ITIL
3 8 (61.54%) Security Patching
4 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
4 6 (46.15%) ITSM
5 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
5 4 (30.77%) Threat Management
5 4 (30.77%) Time Management
5 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) Information Security
7 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CEH
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Progress Chef
3 4 (30.77%) Puppet
3 4 (30.77%) SCCM
4 2 (15.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Qualys
2 9 (69.23%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) SaltStack