Vulnerability Manager
UK

The median Vulnerability Manager salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 964 1218
Rank change year-on-year +122 +254 -326
Permanent jobs requiring a Vulnerability Manager 54 6 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.006% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.006% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 52 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,084 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -31.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £66,875 £57,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 - £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,084 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -5.30% +1.85% -16.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Vulnerability Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Vulnerability Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Manager in the UK

Vulnerability Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Manager in the UK

Vulnerability Manager
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Manager in the UK

Vulnerability Manager
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Manager 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 +155 48 £60,000 +9.09% 1
UK excluding London +54 43 £52,084 -5.30%
North of England - 31 £52,084 -
North West - 31 £52,084 -
Work from Home - 12 £60,000 -
London +138 9 £100,000 - 1
Wales - 6 £65,000 -
East of England +14 3 £65,000 -
South East - 3 £70,000 -

Vulnerability Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Vulnerability Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Vulnerability Manager in the job title.

1 49 (90.74%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (85.19%) Vulnerability Management
3 31 (57.41%) Information Security
4 29 (53.70%) CISSP
4 29 (53.70%) CISM
5 25 (46.30%) Degree
6 23 (42.59%) Incident Management
6 23 (42.59%) Root Cause Analysis
6 23 (42.59%) Military
6 23 (42.59%) Management Information System
6 23 (42.59%) Incident Response
7 17 (31.48%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 17 (31.48%) Microsoft
8 15 (27.78%) Penetration Testing
9 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
9 11 (20.37%) Static Application Security Testing
9 11 (20.37%) Patch Management
10 10 (18.52%) Finance
11 9 (16.67%) Firewall
12 8 (14.81%) Retail
12 8 (14.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 8 (14.81%) Threat Intelligence
13 7 (12.96%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (12.96%) Python
13 7 (12.96%) AWS
14 6 (11.11%) ISSMP
14 6 (11.11%) COBIT
14 6 (11.11%) PKI
14 6 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering

Vulnerability Manager Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.96%) AWS
2 6 (11.11%) Azure
2 6 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) Firewall
2 6 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
General
1 23 (42.59%) Military
2 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.52%) Finance
4 8 (14.81%) Retail
5 7 (12.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (42.59%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.11%) PKI
3 5 (9.26%) Operational Technology
4 4 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (90.74%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (85.19%) Vulnerability Management
3 31 (57.41%) Information Security
4 23 (42.59%) Incident Management
4 23 (42.59%) Incident Response
4 23 (42.59%) Root Cause Analysis
5 17 (31.48%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 15 (27.78%) Penetration Testing
7 11 (20.37%) Patch Management
7 11 (20.37%) Static Application Security Testing
8 8 (14.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 8 (14.81%) Threat Intelligence
9 7 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 6 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
10 6 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 6 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
10 6 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 5 (9.26%) Fintech
11 5 (9.26%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (53.70%) CISM
1 29 (53.70%) CISSP
2 25 (46.30%) Degree
3 6 (11.11%) CRISC
3 6 (11.11%) GIAC
3 6 (11.11%) ISSMP
4 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) COBIT
2 2 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Ansible
2 4 (7.41%) Nessus
2 4 (7.41%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.85%) Nmap
Vendors
1 17 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Alibaba
3 4 (7.41%) Qualys
4 2 (3.70%) Google