Vulnerability Assessment Jobs in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 636 629 632
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -99
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 135 133 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 102 71 187
10th Percentile £36,255 £24,146 £37,535
25th Percentile £42,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £58,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £59,500 £63,187
% change year-on-year +13.45% -5.83% -6.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,358 58,642 66,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.33% 95.62% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41,086 30,131 41,542
10th Percentile £27,004 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +4 49 £77,500 +55.00% 3
North of England +57 20 £42,500 -5.56% 3
Midlands +6 19 £43,750 -7.89% 1
Scotland -51 14 £60,000 +41.18%
South West -22 13 £62,500 +68.59% 5
West Midlands +21 12 £40,000 -45.21% 1
East of England +17 9 £72,500 +31.82% 7
North West +16 9 £37,500 -10.18% 2
East Midlands -22 7 £47,500 -
Yorkshire +89 6 £60,000 -15.79%
North East - 5 £42,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +28 4 £57,500 -17.86% 2
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Wales +14 3 - - 2
Vulnerability Assessment
UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) IIS
3 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (26.67%) Azure
2 32 (23.70%) AWS
3 13 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (8.89%) Datadog
5 9 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (5.93%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.19%) GCP
8 4 (2.96%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.22%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.22%) Route 53
9 3 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.48%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (32.59%) Firewall
2 20 (14.81%) Network Security
3 14 (10.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.70%) VPN
5 4 (2.96%) SAN
5 4 (2.96%) Wireless
6 3 (2.22%) Internet
6 3 (2.22%) Wireless Security
7 2 (1.48%) NAS
8 1 (0.74%) DHCP
8 1 (0.74%) DNS
8 1 (0.74%) LAN
8 1 (0.74%) OSPF
8 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.74%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.48%) Big Data
3 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.89%) GitLab
1 12 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.70%) Burp Suite
3 4 (2.96%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.74%) AppScan
4 1 (0.74%) MSI
4 1 (0.74%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.30%) Finance
3 16 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.19%) Legal
6 6 (4.44%) Law
6 6 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.70%) Banking
8 4 (2.96%) Marketing
8 4 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (31.85%) Analyst
2 27 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 19 (14.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 18 (13.33%) Security Manager
5 17 (12.59%) Lead
6 13 (9.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) Lead DevOps
7 12 (8.89%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) Security Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
9 8 (5.93%) Information Manager
9 8 (5.93%) Information Security Manager
10 7 (5.19%) Architect
10 7 (5.19%) IoT Architect
10 7 (5.19%) Systems Architect
11 6 (4.44%) Head of Compliance
11 6 (4.44%) Head of Information
11 6 (4.44%) Head of Information Assurance
11 6 (4.44%) Penetration Tester
11 6 (4.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.89%) .NET
2 3 (2.22%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.70%) Management Information System
2 26 (19.26%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (10.37%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (10.37%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.67%) IoT
4 9 (6.67%) Operational Technology
5 7 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.44%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.96%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (2.96%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.96%) SCADA
9 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.19%) Windows
2 23 (17.04%) Linux
3 10 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.67%) Unix
5 4 (2.96%) Kali Linux
5 4 (2.96%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (71.85%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (39.26%) Incident Response
3 41 (30.37%) Information Security
4 37 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (27.41%) SIEM
5 32 (23.70%) Penetration Testing
6 23 (17.04%) Cloud Security
6 23 (17.04%) DevOps
6 23 (17.04%) Risk Management
6 23 (17.04%) Security Operations
7 21 (15.56%) Computer Science
7 21 (15.56%) Vulnerability Management
8 20 (14.81%) CI/CD
8 20 (14.81%) Threat Intelligence
9 16 (11.85%) Containerisation
9 16 (11.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 16 (11.85%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (11.11%) Agile
10 15 (11.11%) Microservices
10 15 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.85%) Python
2 10 (7.41%) C#
3 7 (5.19%) Bash
3 7 (5.19%) C
3 7 (5.19%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.96%) C++
5 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (25.93%) Degree
2 25 (18.52%) CISSP
3 20 (14.81%) AWS Certification
4 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
5 18 (13.33%) CISM
6 12 (8.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (7.41%) Master's Degree
8 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
9 8 (5.93%) CISA
10 7 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.44%) OSCP
12 5 (3.70%) CCNA
12 5 (3.70%) CEH
12 5 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (2.96%) CHECK Team Member
13 4 (2.96%) CREST Certified
13 4 (2.96%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (36.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (30.37%) NIST
3 15 (11.11%) GRC
3 15 (11.11%) NIST 800
4 13 (9.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (7.41%) NCSC
6 7 (5.19%) ISO 13485
6 7 (5.19%) QA
7 6 (4.44%) GDPR
8 4 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (2.22%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.74%) FISMA
10 1 (0.74%) HITRUST
10 1 (0.74%) IASME
10 1 (0.74%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.74%) SLA
10 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (11.11%) Docker
2 13 (9.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.22%) KVM
6 2 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (11.85%) Kubernetes
1 16 (11.85%) Terraform
2 12 (8.89%) Consul
2 12 (8.89%) Puppet
3 5 (3.70%) CSIRT
4 4 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.22%) Nessus
5 3 (2.22%) Nmap
6 2 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.48%) CASB
6 2 (1.48%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) Ansible
7 1 (0.74%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (0.74%) QRadar
7 1 (0.74%) SCCM
7 1 (0.74%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.74%) WMI
Vendors
1 31 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.93%) VMware
3 5 (3.70%) Cisco
4 4 (2.96%) Intel
4 4 (2.96%) Qualys
5 3 (2.22%) Google
6 2 (1.48%) Splunk
7 1 (0.74%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.74%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.74%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.74%) Symantec
7 1 (0.74%) Thales
7 1 (0.74%) Trustwave
7 1 (0.74%) Varonis
7 1 (0.74%) Zscaler