Vulnerability Scanning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 635 589 706
Rank change year-on-year -46 +117 -144
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 127 162 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.28% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 96 96 93
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,863 £36,669
25th Percentile £41,625 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,625 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning 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 59,266 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.13% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,003 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
North of England +64 46 £50,000 -4.76% 18
South West -29 25 £45,000 -2.70% 4
South East -21 22 £75,000 +42.86% 5
Yorkshire +88 21 £50,000 - 11
Midlands -6 16 £65,000 +52.94% 3
North West +18 15 £46,250 -33.93% 6
East Midlands -13 13 £65,000 +87.97% 1
Scotland -62 11 £40,000 -30.15% 3
North East +6 10 £41,250 -25.00% 1
Northern Ireland +32 3 £90,000 +111.76% 1
West Midlands +7 3 £52,500 +23.53% 2
East of England +14 2 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Wales +7 2 - - 4
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
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 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 57 (44.88%) Azure
2 35 (27.56%) AWS
3 29 (22.83%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (12.60%) Entra ID
5 11 (8.66%) SaaS
6 8 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (6.30%) Cloudflare
7 4 (3.15%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (2.36%) IaaS
9 2 (1.57%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (1.57%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.79%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.79%) GitHub
10 1 (0.79%) PaaS
10 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (34.65%) Firewall
2 16 (12.60%) Network Security
3 14 (11.02%) VPN
4 13 (10.24%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (7.87%) LAN
5 10 (7.87%) VLAN
5 10 (7.87%) WAN
6 8 (6.30%) DNS
7 4 (3.15%) Internet
8 3 (2.36%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.36%) Wireless
9 2 (1.57%) BGP
9 2 (1.57%) DHCP
9 2 (1.57%) DMZ
9 2 (1.57%) HTTP
9 2 (1.57%) IPsec
9 2 (1.57%) OSPF
9 2 (1.57%) SMTP
9 2 (1.57%) tcpdump
9 2 (1.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.36%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.36%) Metasploit
3 2 (1.57%) JIRA
General
1 24 (18.90%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.24%) Retail
4 9 (7.09%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.30%) Games
5 8 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.30%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.51%) Aerospace
6 7 (5.51%) Aviation
6 7 (5.51%) Military
7 5 (3.94%) Finance
7 5 (3.94%) Legal
8 4 (3.15%) Law
9 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (29.92%) Analyst
2 35 (27.56%) Security Analyst
3 16 (12.60%) Architect
3 16 (12.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 13 (10.24%) Consultant
4 13 (10.24%) Security Consultant
4 13 (10.24%) Senior
5 11 (8.66%) Information Security Consultant
5 11 (8.66%) IT Engineer
6 10 (7.87%) Infrastructure Architect
6 10 (7.87%) Lead
6 10 (7.87%) Security Engineer
7 9 (7.09%) IT Analyst
7 9 (7.09%) IT Security Analyst
8 8 (6.30%) Technical Leader
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 7 (5.51%) Senior IT Security Analyst
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Security Analyst
10 6 (4.72%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) Laravel
2 2 (1.57%) OAuth
2 2 (1.57%) OpenID
2 2 (1.57%) SAML
3 1 (0.79%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.75%) Data Protection Act
2 17 (13.39%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (11.02%) IoT
3 14 (11.02%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (9.45%) Management Information System
5 11 (8.66%) Cyberattack
6 10 (7.87%) Operational Technology
6 10 (7.87%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.72%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.94%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (3.15%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.36%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.57%) Life Science
11 2 (1.57%) PKI
11 2 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.98%) Windows
2 21 (16.54%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.24%) Unix
4 11 (8.66%) Linux
5 4 (3.15%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.36%) Kali Linux
7 2 (1.57%) VMS
7 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (68.50%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (36.22%) Information Security
3 45 (35.43%) SIEM
4 41 (32.28%) Incident Response
5 40 (31.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 37 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (27.56%) Penetration Testing
8 34 (26.77%) Security Operations
9 32 (25.20%) Cloud Security
10 24 (18.90%) Data Protection
11 18 (14.17%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 18 (14.17%) Threat Intelligence
12 17 (13.39%) Security Auditing
13 16 (12.60%) Incident Management
14 15 (11.81%) Identity Access Management
14 15 (11.81%) ITIL
15 14 (11.02%) Computer Science
15 14 (11.02%) Risk Management
15 14 (11.02%) Security Testing
16 12 (9.45%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.05%) PowerShell
2 21 (16.54%) Python
3 12 (9.45%) Bash
4 8 (6.30%) PHP
4 8 (6.30%) Rust
5 3 (2.36%) Java
5 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.47%) CISSP
2 21 (16.54%) Degree
3 12 (9.45%) CISA
4 11 (8.66%) CompTIA CySA+
5 10 (7.87%) Master's Degree
6 9 (7.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (4.72%) CISMP
7 6 (4.72%) GIAC
7 6 (4.72%) OSCP
7 6 (4.72%) SANS
7 6 (4.72%) Security Cleared
8 5 (3.94%) CREST Certified
8 5 (3.94%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.15%) CISM
10 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.36%) CEH
10 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.36%) OSCE
11 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.57%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (30.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (22.83%) GDPR
3 24 (18.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (18.11%) NIST
5 13 (10.24%) PCI DSS
6 10 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 10 (7.87%) SOC 2
7 8 (6.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (5.51%) DO-254
8 7 (5.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (4.72%) COBIT
10 5 (3.94%) NCSC
11 2 (1.57%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.79%) GxP
12 1 (0.79%) QA
12 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (16.54%) Active Directory
2 17 (13.39%) Hyper-V
3 10 (7.87%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.36%) Docker
6 2 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (8.66%) CASB
2 11 (8.66%) Nessus
3 7 (5.51%) SCCM
4 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.36%) Nmap
4 3 (2.36%) Terraform
4 3 (2.36%) WSUS
5 2 (1.57%) Grafana
5 2 (1.57%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (1.57%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.79%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (0.79%) QRadar
6 1 (0.79%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.79%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (40.16%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) Qualys
3 8 (6.30%) VMware
4 7 (5.51%) Dell
5 6 (4.72%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.94%) HP
7 4 (3.15%) Aderant
7 4 (3.15%) iManage
8 3 (2.36%) Cisco
9 2 (1.57%) Juniper
9 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.79%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.79%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.79%) NetApp
10 1 (0.79%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.79%) SonicWALL
10 1 (0.79%) Splunk
10 1 (0.79%) Symantec
10 1 (0.79%) Varonis