Vulnerability Assessment Jobs

Vulnerability Assessment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 665 745 820
Rank change year-on-year +80 +75 -153
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 231 249 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 189 158 296
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,750 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -1.22% -8.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,813
90th Percentile £92,750 £93,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +94 201 £66,500 +16.16% 43
UK excluding London +15 141 £60,000 +26.32% 23
London +117 84 £75,000 +4.17% 23
Work from Home +43 62 £60,000 +3.00% 21
South East +1 51 £75,000 +50.00% 6
North of England +58 25 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Midlands -5 17 £40,000 -15.79% 3
South West -14 15 £62,500 +68.59% 5
Scotland -47 15 £60,000 +41.18%
North West +19 13 £37,500 -10.18% 1
West Midlands +18 10 £40,000 -45.21% 3
Yorkshire +92 7 £60,000 -15.79%
East of England +26 7 £72,500 +31.82% 5
East Midlands -26 7 £47,500 -
North East - 5 £42,500 -
Northern Ireland +24 4 £57,500 -17.86% 3
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Wales +6 3 - -

Vulnerability Assessment
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 80 (34.63%) Azure
2 59 (25.54%) AWS
3 37 (16.02%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (8.66%) GCP
5 15 (6.49%) Entra ID
6 14 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (6.06%) Datadog
7 10 (4.33%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (3.90%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (3.03%) PaaS
10 6 (2.60%) SaaS
11 5 (2.16%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.16%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.16%) IaaS
11 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 90 (38.96%) Firewall
2 28 (12.12%) Intrusion Detection
3 27 (11.69%) Network Security
4 16 (6.93%) DNS
4 16 (6.93%) TCP/IP
5 12 (5.19%) Wireless
6 10 (4.33%) VPN
7 7 (3.03%) DHCP
8 5 (2.16%) IPsec
8 5 (2.16%) LAN
8 5 (2.16%) SSL
9 4 (1.73%) Internet
9 4 (1.73%) SAN
9 4 (1.73%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.73%) Wireless Security
10 3 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.30%) VLAN
10 3 (1.30%) WAN
10 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.90%) Power BI
2 4 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.87%) Big Data
3 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (10.39%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.06%) GitLab
3 6 (2.60%) Burp Suite
4 5 (2.16%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.43%) AppScan
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) MSI
5 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.43%) Snyk
5 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.65%) Finance
3 37 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.79%) Legal
5 16 (6.93%) Law
6 12 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.76%) Marketing
8 8 (3.46%) Banking
8 8 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.46%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.03%) Retail
10 6 (2.60%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 71 (30.74%) Analyst
2 51 (22.08%) Security Analyst
3 32 (13.85%) Senior
4 28 (12.12%) Lead
5 27 (11.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 26 (11.26%) Security Engineer
7 25 (10.82%) Security Manager
8 15 (6.49%) Architect
8 15 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.49%) Penetration Tester
8 15 (6.49%) Tester
9 14 (6.06%) Lead DevOps
9 14 (6.06%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) Information Manager
10 12 (5.19%) Information Security Manager
10 12 (5.19%) SOC Analyst
11 9 (3.90%) Information Analyst
11 9 (3.90%) Information Security Analyst
11 9 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.06%) .NET
2 2 (0.87%) EDI
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.87%) REST
2 2 (0.87%) Sass
3 1 (0.43%) OAuth
3 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.43%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 38 (16.45%) Cyber Threat
3 27 (11.69%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (4.76%) PKI
6 10 (4.33%) Cyber Defence
6 10 (4.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 9 (3.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 9 (3.90%) IoT
7 9 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.46%) Operational Technology
9 7 (3.03%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.60%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.60%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.16%) Cyberattack
12 4 (1.73%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (25.97%) Windows
2 35 (15.15%) Linux
3 18 (7.79%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.33%) Unix
5 7 (3.03%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.16%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (71.00%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (41.13%) Information Security
3 83 (35.93%) Incident Response
4 70 (30.30%) Penetration Testing
4 70 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (29.44%) SIEM
6 43 (18.61%) Cloud Security
6 43 (18.61%) Vulnerability Management
7 35 (15.15%) Security Architecture
8 34 (14.72%) Security Operations
9 31 (13.42%) Computer Science
9 31 (13.42%) Threat Intelligence
10 27 (11.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 27 (11.69%) DevOps
10 27 (11.69%) ITIL
11 26 (11.26%) Risk Management
12 25 (10.82%) Business Continuity
12 25 (10.82%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 24 (10.39%) CI/CD
13 24 (10.39%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.29%) Python
2 11 (4.76%) C#
3 9 (3.90%) Bash
4 7 (3.03%) C
4 7 (3.03%) C++
4 7 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.43%) Java
6 1 (0.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (29.00%) Degree
2 66 (28.57%) CISSP
3 41 (17.75%) CISM
4 27 (11.69%) CISA
5 23 (9.96%) AWS Certification
5 23 (9.96%) Security Cleared
6 21 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 18 (7.79%) CEH
7 18 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (7.79%) GIAC
8 17 (7.36%) Master's Degree
8 17 (7.36%) OSCP
9 15 (6.49%) CompTIA CySA+
9 15 (6.49%) CREST Certified
10 14 (6.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (5.63%) CRISC
12 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (5.19%) SC Cleared
13 11 (4.76%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (41.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (32.47%) NIST
3 42 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 25 (10.82%) GRC
5 21 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 20 (8.66%) NCSC
7 18 (7.79%) GDPR
8 14 (6.06%) NIST 800
9 11 (4.76%) PCI DSS
10 9 (3.90%) COBIT
11 7 (3.03%) ISO 13485
11 7 (3.03%) QA
12 6 (2.60%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (2.60%) HIPAA
13 4 (1.73%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.43%) FISMA
14 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (10.82%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.66%) Docker
3 12 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.90%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.30%) KVM
6 2 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.09%) Terraform
3 14 (6.06%) Consul
3 14 (6.06%) Puppet
4 10 (4.33%) Ansible
5 6 (2.60%) CSIRT
5 6 (2.60%) Nessus
5 6 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.16%) CASB
7 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.73%) Nmap
8 3 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.87%) WSUS
10 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.43%) SCCM
10 1 (0.43%) WMI
Vendors
1 71 (30.74%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.63%) Google
2 13 (5.63%) VMware
3 9 (3.90%) Alibaba
3 9 (3.90%) Cisco
4 5 (2.16%) Qualys
5 4 (1.73%) Intel
5 4 (1.73%) Meraki
5 4 (1.73%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.30%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.30%) Splunk
7 2 (0.87%) arcserve
7 2 (0.87%) CA
7 2 (0.87%) Veeam
8 1 (0.43%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.43%) Dell
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.43%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.43%) Thales