Vulnerability Management Jobs

Vulnerability Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 290 536
Rank change year-on-year -136 +246 -49
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 555 1,271 967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 1.21% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.27% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 414 477 516
10th Percentile £39,650 £43,750 £38,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,084 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Management 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 -97 497 £62,500 -3.85% 262
UK excluding London -180 346 £52,084 -0.79% 203
London +1 188 £80,000 +23.08% 57
Work from Home -41 171 £62,500 +4.17% 69
South East -73 92 £65,000 +13.04% 60
North of England -36 90 £52,084 -0.79% 70
North West -40 57 £52,084 -5.30% 51
South West -58 55 £52,500 -10.64% 23
East of England +9 33 £72,500 +31.82% 20
Midlands -75 32 £37,500 -25.00% 28
Yorkshire +56 30 £56,500 +9.99% 17
Scotland -141 25 £53,750 +1.07% 3
West Midlands -31 21 £37,500 -25.00% 18
Wales -5 18 £65,000 - 1
East Midlands -43 11 £46,000 - 10
North East -3 3 £40,000 -36.00% 2
Northern Ireland +22 1 - - 1

Vulnerability Management
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 25 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.54%) IIS
4 2 (0.36%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 172 (30.99%) Azure
2 118 (21.26%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (13.33%) AWS
4 41 (7.39%) SaaS
5 29 (5.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 22 (3.96%) Entra ID
7 19 (3.42%) GCP
8 17 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (2.52%) IaaS
9 14 (2.52%) PaaS
10 9 (1.62%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.08%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.08%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.72%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.54%) GitHub
14 2 (0.36%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 139 (25.05%) Firewall
2 123 (22.16%) Network Security
3 34 (6.13%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.68%) DNS
4 26 (4.68%) SAN
5 25 (4.50%) LAN
5 25 (4.50%) WAN
6 24 (4.32%) Internet
6 24 (4.32%) Intrusion Detection
7 23 (4.14%) Wireshark
8 20 (3.60%) VPN
9 8 (1.44%) HTTP
10 6 (1.08%) SMTP
11 5 (0.90%) SSL
11 5 (0.90%) VoIP
12 4 (0.72%) DKIM
12 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.54%) tcpdump
14 2 (0.36%) NAS
14 2 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.16%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.62%) Power BI
3 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.36%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.36%) MySQL
5 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.18%) Big Data
6 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle9i Database
6 1 (0.18%) OrientDB
6 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (2.88%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.80%) Burp Suite
3 8 (1.44%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.44%) Snyk
4 2 (0.36%) Git
4 2 (0.36%) Hudson
4 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) JIRA
5 1 (0.18%) JUnit
General
1 161 (29.01%) Finance
2 156 (28.11%) Social Skills
3 47 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.57%) Military
5 40 (7.21%) Banking
6 39 (7.03%) Retail
7 34 (6.13%) Games
8 31 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.60%) Legal
10 18 (3.24%) Law
10 18 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.80%) Marketing
12 7 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.90%) Advertising
13 5 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.54%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 157 (28.29%) Analyst
2 99 (17.84%) Security Analyst
3 97 (17.48%) Senior
4 79 (14.23%) Security Engineer
5 60 (10.81%) Senior Analyst
6 52 (9.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 49 (8.83%) Security Manager
8 47 (8.47%) Lead
9 46 (8.29%) Vulnerability Manager
10 43 (7.75%) Consultant
11 42 (7.57%) Security Consultant
12 40 (7.21%) Architect
12 40 (7.21%) Security Architect
13 38 (6.85%) IT Analyst
13 38 (6.85%) Senior Security Analyst
14 31 (5.59%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 29 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 28 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 25 (4.50%) IT Security Analyst
18 24 (4.32%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (2.16%) REST
3 11 (1.98%) .NET
4 10 (1.80%) React
5 9 (1.62%) Web Services
6 7 (1.26%) Middleware
7 6 (1.08%) SAML
8 5 (0.90%) Kafka
9 4 (0.72%) EDI
9 4 (0.72%) OAuth
10 3 (0.54%) web3js
10 3 (0.54%) YAML
11 2 (0.36%) HTML
11 2 (0.36%) HTML5
11 2 (0.36%) LDAP
11 2 (0.36%) Sass
11 2 (0.36%) ServiceStack
11 2 (0.36%) WebSockets
12 1 (0.18%) boto
12 1 (0.18%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 114 (20.54%) Management Information System
2 72 (12.97%) Security Operations Centre
3 48 (8.65%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (8.47%) Security Posture
5 46 (8.29%) Cyber Threat
6 36 (6.49%) Data Centre
7 31 (5.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 31 (5.59%) Cyberattack
8 29 (5.23%) PKI
9 24 (4.32%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (4.32%) Operational Technology
10 17 (3.06%) Cyber Defence
11 14 (2.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 14 (2.52%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.98%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.80%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.90%) IoT
14 5 (0.90%) Mobile App
15 4 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 158 (28.47%) Windows
2 82 (14.77%) Linux
3 66 (11.89%) Windows Server
4 32 (5.77%) Unix
5 16 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 15 (2.70%) Android
7 12 (2.16%) VMS
8 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.90%) CentOS
9 5 (0.90%) Solaris
9 5 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.72%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.72%) zOS
11 3 (0.54%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (65.95%) Cybersecurity
2 227 (40.90%) Information Security
3 215 (38.74%) SIEM
4 185 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 146 (26.31%) Incident Response
6 92 (16.58%) Cloud Security
7 87 (15.68%) Identity Access Management
8 85 (15.32%) ITIL
9 81 (14.59%) Incident Management
10 79 (14.23%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 76 (13.69%) Threat Intelligence
12 69 (12.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 67 (12.07%) Agile
13 67 (12.07%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 65 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
15 62 (11.17%) Penetration Testing
16 56 (10.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 53 (9.55%) Application Security
17 53 (9.55%) Risk Management
18 52 (9.37%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 68 (12.25%) PowerShell
2 58 (10.45%) Python
3 15 (2.70%) Bash
4 13 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.16%) C#
6 8 (1.44%) SQL
7 6 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.18%) C++
9 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) ProC
9 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 140 (25.23%) CISSP
2 110 (19.82%) Degree
3 103 (18.56%) Security Cleared
4 85 (15.32%) CISM
5 50 (9.01%) CEH
6 46 (8.29%) SC Cleared
7 44 (7.93%) GIAC
8 38 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (6.49%) DV Cleared
10 24 (4.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 20 (3.60%) CCSP
11 20 (3.60%) SSCP
12 18 (3.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 18 (3.24%) CISA
12 18 (3.24%) CRISC
12 18 (3.24%) SANS
13 17 (3.06%) CCNA
14 16 (2.88%) CompTIA CySA+
15 14 (2.52%) DBS Check
15 14 (2.52%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (26.85%) NIST
2 122 (21.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (11.53%) GDPR
4 60 (10.81%) PCI DSS
5 51 (9.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 31 (5.59%) COBIT
7 29 (5.23%) GRC
8 19 (3.42%) SLA
9 18 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 18 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 16 (2.88%) NCSC
11 14 (2.52%) SOC 2
12 11 (1.98%) NIST 800
13 8 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.72%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.36%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.36%) QA
16 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 71 (12.79%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (4.86%) vSphere
4 24 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.80%) Docker
7 8 (1.44%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 44 (7.93%) SCCM
2 38 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (6.49%) Nessus
4 25 (4.50%) Ansible
4 25 (4.50%) CASB
5 23 (4.14%) Nmap
6 18 (3.24%) WSUS
7 15 (2.70%) CSIRT
8 12 (2.16%) Kubernetes
8 12 (2.16%) Terraform
9 11 (1.98%) QRadar
10 7 (1.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 7 (1.26%) Nexpose
11 5 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.72%) DatAdvantage
12 4 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.54%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.54%) Suricata
Vendors
1 193 (34.77%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.81%) Qualys
3 52 (9.37%) VMware
4 38 (6.85%) Splunk
5 26 (4.68%) Tanium
5 26 (4.68%) Tripwire
6 25 (4.50%) SolarWinds
7 24 (4.32%) Rapid7
8 23 (4.14%) Citrix
9 22 (3.96%) NetApp
10 20 (3.60%) ServiceNow
11 19 (3.42%) Cisco
12 14 (2.52%) Alibaba
12 14 (2.52%) Thycotic
13 12 (2.16%) Apple
14 11 (1.98%) Palo Alto
15 10 (1.80%) Google
16 7 (1.26%) Juniper
17 6 (1.08%) LogRhythm
17 6 (1.08%) Varonis