Threat and Vulnerability Management Contracts

Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Threat and Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Threat and Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 626 774
Rank change year-on-year +81 +148 -80
Contract jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management 34 58 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.10% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.11% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 47
10th Percentile £534 £369 £440
25th Percentile £550 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £639 £723
90th Percentile £725 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £567 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -6.44% +10.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Threat and 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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
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% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
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% -4.88%

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Threat and Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Threat and Vulnerability Management in the UK

Threat and Vulnerability Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Threat and Vulnerability Management within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +80 28 £600 +0.06% 21
London +105 17 £650 +15.56% 12
Work from Home +93 12 £625 +9.36% 6
UK excluding London +26 12 £567 -6.44% 9
East of England +9 4 £700 +64.76%
South East +11 3 £540 +16.76% 3
Midlands +17 2 £567 -10.43% 1
North of England +14 2 £559 -7.84% 4
Scotland +40 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +21 1 £550 +4.76% 1
West Midlands +11 1 - - 1
East Midlands +6 1 £567 -8.84%
North West +2 1 £567 -6.44% 3

Threat and 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) Mimecast
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.94%) SCCP
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Burp Suite
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
4 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Security Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) Security Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Information Security Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Security Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Security Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Security Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Vulnerability Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Head of Security
6 1 (2.94%) Operational Security Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (14.71%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.82%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (5.88%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Vulnerability Management
2 16 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
2 16 (47.06%) Security Operations
3 15 (44.12%) Incident Response
4 13 (38.24%) Application Security
5 12 (35.29%) Information Security
6 10 (29.41%) Security Testing
6 10 (29.41%) Static Application Security Testing
6 10 (29.41%) Threat Intelligence
6 10 (29.41%) Threat Modelling
7 8 (23.53%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
8 7 (20.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
9 6 (17.65%) Agile
9 6 (17.65%) SDLC
9 6 (17.65%) SIEM
10 5 (14.71%) Penetration Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Project Planning
10 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) CISM
2 6 (17.65%) CISSP
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) CRISC
4 2 (5.88%) GCIA
4 2 (5.88%) GCIH
5 1 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.94%) CCSK
5 1 (2.94%) CEH
5 1 (2.94%) CISA
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (14.71%) PCI DSS
3 4 (11.76%) GDPR
3 4 (11.76%) NIST
4 3 (8.82%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Nessus
2 1 (2.94%) Nmap
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Varonis
3 4 (11.76%) Darktrace
3 4 (11.76%) Qualys
4 3 (8.82%) Checkmarx
4 3 (8.82%) Veracode
5 2 (5.88%) Google
5 2 (5.88%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle
6 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) Splunk