Vulnerability Assessment Contracts

Vulnerability Assessment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment 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 474 529 690
Rank change year-on-year +55 +161 -24
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 105 155 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 123 105
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £423 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -5.98% +30.00%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £738
90th Percentile £825 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £725
% change year-on-year -8.33% -17.24% +61.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.75 £71.20 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £72.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +80.99% -35.48%
75th Percentile £76.25 £73.92 -
90th Percentile - £74.12 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £72.40 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Assessment 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%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 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 +51 86 £535 -7.76% 52
London +87 54 £488 -11.36% 25
UK excluding London +35 43 £550 -8.33% 28
Work from Home +72 29 £510 +1.80% 24
Scotland +50 13 £515 -6.36% 4
South East +6 12 £800 +32.78% 6
South West +3 11 £600 - 5
North of England +25 3 £775 +72.22% 4
North West +13 2 £450 - 4
East of England +6 2 £500 +5.26% 5
Yorkshire +20 1 £1,100 +76.00%
Midlands +18 1 £425 -40.35% 3
West Midlands +9 1 £425 -41.38% 3
Wales - 1 £145 -

Vulnerability Assessment
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 1 (0.95%) Apache
1 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.24%) Azure
2 13 (12.38%) AWS
3 5 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.86%) SaaS
6 2 (1.90%) GCP
6 2 (1.90%) GitHub
6 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.90%) PaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.95%) Figma
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (29.52%) Firewall
2 25 (23.81%) Network Security
3 12 (11.43%) BGP
4 11 (10.48%) MPLS
5 9 (8.57%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (8.57%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (5.71%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (5.71%) RSVP
6 6 (5.71%) VPN
7 5 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (4.76%) DNS
7 5 (4.76%) IOS XR
7 5 (4.76%) TCP/IP
8 4 (3.81%) 5G
8 4 (3.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (3.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (2.86%) WAN
10 2 (1.90%) Broadband
10 2 (1.90%) DHCP
10 2 (1.90%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.95%) Power BI
1 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Git
2 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.95%) JIRA
3 1 (0.95%) MSI
3 1 (0.95%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.95%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.48%) Finance
5 8 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.76%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.81%) Banking
9 3 (2.86%) Electronics
9 3 (2.86%) Marketing
10 2 (1.90%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.90%) Retail
11 1 (0.95%) Advertising
11 1 (0.95%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Law
11 1 (0.95%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (33.33%) Analyst
2 24 (22.86%) Security Analyst
3 17 (16.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 16 (15.24%) Network Engineer
5 10 (9.52%) Design Engineer
5 10 (9.52%) Network Design Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Consultant
6 9 (8.57%) Senior
7 8 (7.62%) Security Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Administrator
8 7 (6.67%) Security Consultant
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Security Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Server Administrator
10 5 (4.76%) SOC Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) SOC Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Vulnerability Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) Windows Administrator
10 5 (4.76%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) JSON
1 8 (7.62%) NETCONF
1 8 (7.62%) XML
1 8 (7.62%) YANG
2 1 (0.95%) CSS
2 1 (0.95%) EDI
2 1 (0.95%) Flutter
2 1 (0.95%) HTML
2 1 (0.95%) Jest
2 1 (0.95%) LDAP
2 1 (0.95%) Middleware
2 1 (0.95%) Node.js
2 1 (0.95%) ODBC
2 1 (0.95%) OpenID
2 1 (0.95%) React Native
2 1 (0.95%) REST
2 1 (0.95%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.95%) SAML
2 1 (0.95%) Vue
2 1 (0.95%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 21 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 7 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.81%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.86%) SCADA
6 3 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.90%) IoT
7 2 (1.90%) PKI
7 2 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.95%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.95%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.95%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.95%) Windows
2 14 (13.33%) Linux
3 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.76%) Unix
5 4 (3.81%) VMS
6 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.95%) AIX
8 1 (0.95%) CentOS
8 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.95%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.95%) Solaris
8 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (25.71%) Penetration Testing
3 26 (24.76%) Information Security
3 26 (24.76%) Vulnerability Management
4 25 (23.81%) SIEM
5 19 (18.10%) Incident Response
6 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (16.19%) DevOps
7 17 (16.19%) Security Operations
7 17 (16.19%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 15 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
9 14 (13.33%) Cloud Security
9 14 (13.33%) Incident Management
9 14 (13.33%) Risk Management
10 13 (12.38%) Privileged Access Management
10 13 (12.38%) Risk Assessment
11 12 (11.43%) Decision-Making
11 12 (11.43%) Threat Modelling
12 11 (10.48%) Agile
12 11 (10.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.24%) Python
2 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.86%) C#
3 3 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.90%) C
4 2 (1.90%) C++
4 2 (1.90%) Go
4 2 (1.90%) Java
4 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.90%) Perl
4 2 (1.90%) Ruby
4 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.95%) Bash
5 1 (0.95%) SQL
5 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.95%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (17.14%) CCNP
4 17 (16.19%) CISSP
5 15 (14.29%) Degree
5 15 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 14 (13.33%) CISM
7 11 (10.48%) DV Cleared
8 9 (8.57%) CEH
9 8 (7.62%) CREST Certified
9 8 (7.62%) OSCP
10 7 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (5.71%) GIAC
12 5 (4.76%) CCNA
13 4 (3.81%) GCIH
14 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
14 3 (2.86%) CRISC
14 3 (2.86%) GCIA
15 2 (1.90%) CHECK Team Leader
15 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (15.24%) NIST
3 12 (11.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 11 (10.48%) NCSC
5 5 (4.76%) PCI DSS
6 4 (3.81%) ISO 31000
7 3 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (2.86%) COBIT
7 3 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.90%) GRC
8 2 (1.90%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.90%) QA
9 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.71%) Firmware
3 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (19.05%) Nessus
2 7 (6.67%) Ansible
3 6 (5.71%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.81%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.86%) CSIRT
5 3 (2.86%) QRadar
5 3 (2.86%) Terraform
6 2 (1.90%) SCCM
7 1 (0.95%) Nagios
7 1 (0.95%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.95%) WMI
7 1 (0.95%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (18.10%) Cisco
2 16 (15.24%) Microsoft
3 14 (13.33%) Palo Alto
3 14 (13.33%) Qualys
4 11 (10.48%) Nokia
5 9 (8.57%) Juniper
5 9 (8.57%) VMware
6 8 (7.62%) ScienceLogic
6 8 (7.62%) Splunk
7 6 (5.71%) SAP
8 5 (4.76%) Rapid7
8 5 (4.76%) Veeam
9 4 (3.81%) F5
9 4 (3.81%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.86%) Oracle
10 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.90%) Google
11 2 (1.90%) Huawei