Vulnerability Assessment Contracts in London

Vulnerability Assessment
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 344 395
Rank change year-on-year +41 +51 +129
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 47 50 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.32% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 61
10th Percentile - £375 £380
25th Percentile £500 £380 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £458 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.88% -16.82% -5.98%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £615
90th Percentile £723 £760 £720
England median daily rate £600 £500 £580
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.79% -5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £72.50 £72.40
% change year-on-year -15.18% +0.15% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Vulnerability Assessment 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,665 15,594 22,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.40% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,821 11,134 16,508
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 309 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.49%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in London

Vulnerability Assessment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Assessment in London

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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 Assessment within the London region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
West London +17 2 - - 2
Central London 0 2 £594 +3.26% 13
East London +11 1 - - 5
South London - 1 £625 - 1
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
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:

Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) Azure
2 22 (46.81%) AWS
3 16 (34.04%) GCP
4 13 (27.66%) GitHub
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.26%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Stack
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.26%) Serverless
5 2 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) Firewall
2 8 (17.02%) Network Security
3 3 (6.38%) VPN
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.26%) DNS
4 2 (4.26%) DWDM
4 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.26%) LAN
4 2 (4.26%) SSL
4 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.26%) WAN
5 1 (2.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.13%) Looker
1 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (29.79%) SonarQube
2 13 (27.66%) Burp Suite
2 13 (27.66%) Metasploit
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 3 (6.38%) GitLab
5 2 (4.26%) Snyk
5 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.04%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Marketing
4 2 (4.26%) Military
4 2 (4.26%) Police
5 1 (2.13%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.13%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Security Engineer
2 15 (31.91%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Security Architect
4 7 (14.89%) Consultant
5 6 (12.77%) Security Consultant
6 4 (8.51%) Information Security Consultant
6 4 (8.51%) IT Architect
6 4 (8.51%) IT Security Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Lead
7 3 (6.38%) Security Manager
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Information Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Information Security Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Architect
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 1 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 1 (2.13%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) JSON
2 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 1 (2.13%) EDI
3 1 (2.13%) OAuth
3 1 (2.13%) SAML
3 1 (2.13%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Security Posture
2 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.26%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) Cybersecurity
2 25 (53.19%) Penetration Testing
3 23 (48.94%) Cloud Security
4 18 (38.30%) DevSecOps
4 18 (38.30%) Secure Coding
4 18 (38.30%) Static Application Security Testing
5 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
5 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (36.17%) OWASP
6 15 (31.91%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 15 (31.91%) Security Testing
6 15 (31.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 14 (29.79%) Threat Modelling
8 12 (25.53%) Ethical Hacking
8 12 (25.53%) SIEM
9 11 (23.40%) Incident Response
9 11 (23.40%) Information Security
9 11 (23.40%) SDLC
10 10 (21.28%) Risk Management
10 10 (21.28%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (51.06%) Python
2 18 (38.30%) Bash
3 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.26%) C++
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
4 2 (4.26%) Perl
4 2 (4.26%) Rust
5 1 (2.13%) C
5 1 (2.13%) Go
5 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.91%) CREST Certified
2 15 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 13 (27.66%) OSCP
4 12 (25.53%) Tigerscheme
5 9 (19.15%) CHECK Team Member
6 6 (12.77%) DV Cleared
7 5 (10.64%) CISSP
7 5 (10.64%) Degree
7 5 (10.64%) SANS
8 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (6.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (6.38%) PMP
10 2 (4.26%) CCNA
10 2 (4.26%) CCNP
10 2 (4.26%) CISM
10 2 (4.26%) GIAC
10 2 (4.26%) JNCIA
10 2 (4.26%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.66%) GDPR
1 13 (27.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (27.66%) NCSC
2 11 (23.40%) NIST
3 8 (17.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (14.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 7 (14.89%) HIPAA
5 6 (12.77%) QA
6 5 (10.64%) PCI DSS
7 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (2.13%) GRC
7 1 (2.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Nmap
2 5 (10.64%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) Ansible
4 1 (2.13%) Grafana
4 1 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) Veracode
2 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) Planview
4 2 (4.26%) Alibaba
4 2 (4.26%) Arista
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco
4 2 (4.26%) Coverity
5 1 (2.13%) Apple
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Samsung
5 1 (2.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.13%) VMware
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