Vulnerability Specialist Contracts

Vulnerability Specialist
UK

The median Vulnerability Specialist daily rate in the UK is £458, 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 566 695 841
Rank change year-on-year +129 +146 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Specialist 18 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.004% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.004% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile - - £275
25th Percentile £420 £625 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £650 £463
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% +40.54% -29.66%
75th Percentile £506 £675 £529
90th Percentile £608 - £534
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £530

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Vulnerability Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Specialist in the UK

Vulnerability Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Specialist in the UK

Vulnerability Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Specialist in the UK

Vulnerability Specialist
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +101 17 £458 -29.62%
Work from Home - 14 £458 -
London - 13 £440 -
UK excluding London - 2 £600 -
South West - 1 £600 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

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 featuring Vulnerability Specialist in the job title.

1 17 (94.44%) Vulnerability Management
2 13 (72.22%) Qualys
3 12 (66.67%) Unix
3 12 (66.67%) Linux
4 9 (50.00%) ITIL
4 9 (50.00%) Finance
4 9 (50.00%) VMware
5 8 (44.44%) Security Patching
5 8 (44.44%) Ansible
6 6 (33.33%) SLA
6 6 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 6 (33.33%) ITSM
6 6 (33.33%) AWS
6 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 5 (27.78%) Progress Chef
7 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
7 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
7 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (22.22%) SCCM
8 4 (22.22%) Time Management
8 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
8 4 (22.22%) Windows
8 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
8 4 (22.22%) Puppet
8 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (22.22%) Threat Management
8 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (22.22%) Windows Server

Vulnerability Specialist Skill Set
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 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.11%) Route 53
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Linux
1 12 (66.67%) Unix
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) CentOS
3 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Vulnerability Management
2 9 (50.00%) ITIL
3 8 (44.44%) Security Patching
4 6 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 6 (33.33%) ITSM
5 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
6 4 (22.22%) Threat Management
6 4 (22.22%) Time Management
7 2 (11.11%) Information Security
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 1 (5.56%) Application Security
8 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
8 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (5.56%) Fintech
8 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.56%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CEH
1 1 (5.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 5 (27.78%) Progress Chef
3 4 (22.22%) Puppet
3 4 (22.22%) SCCM
4 2 (11.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Qualys
2 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) SaltStack
6 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint