Vulnerability Remediation Contracts in the North West

Vulnerability Remediation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 137 174
Rank change year-on-year +26 +37 +5
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 7 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.29% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.33% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £288 £321 £369
25th Percentile £400 £334 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -14.71% -
75th Percentile £515 £384 £438
90th Percentile £521 £394 £505
England median daily rate £535 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.02% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £44.50 £65.25
% change year-on-year +12.36% -31.80% +161.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Vulnerability Remediation 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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 2,455 3,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 88.47% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 1,684 2,641
10th Percentile £294 £270 £281
25th Percentile £391 £404 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £651 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 163 140
10th Percentile £16.28 £15.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £24.18 £17.88 £15.88
Median hourly rate £35.68 £35.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +57.30% +22.83%
75th Percentile £52.05 £46.18 £45.73
90th Percentile £70.90 £63.75 £69.42
England median hourly rate £37.25 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +27.14% +67.36%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the North West

Vulnerability Remediation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the North West

Vulnerability Remediation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the North West over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the North West

Vulnerability Remediation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Cheshire - 5 £505 - 3
Manchester +13 1 - - 3
Merseyside -1 1 £225 -
Vulnerability Remediation
England

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Wireless
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (14.29%) SSL
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) VoIP
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Telephony Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Telephony Support
1 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security Posture
1 4 (57.14%) Security Posture
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (14.29%) IVR
3 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) VMS
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (14.29%) Android
5 1 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 6 (85.71%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security
2 4 (57.14%) Log Correlation
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
2 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
3 3 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) MCSA
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Nessus
2 4 (57.14%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Apple
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy