Vulnerability Remediation Jobs

Vulnerability Remediation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Remediation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 615 702 974
Rank change year-on-year +87 +272 -244
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 297 275 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.28% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 193 170 141
10th Percentile £39,059 £46,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,005 £69,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -14.55% +0.92% +28.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Remediation 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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London +15 212 £47,000 -14.55% 18
England +52 201 £60,000 -7.69% 37
Work from Home +86 103 £60,000 +9.09% 18
Scotland +8 86 £47,000 -27.69% 1
London +104 73 £75,000 +11.11% 21
North of England +73 60 £50,000 -5.66% 2
North West +31 44 £57,500 -1.71% 2
South East -49 36 £47,000 -14.55% 5
Midlands -12 19 £50,500 +1.00% 3
Yorkshire +92 15 £43,750 -12.50%
West Midlands +5 10 £65,500 +31.00% 1
East Midlands -10 9 £45,000 -5.26% 2
East of England +19 6 £32,500 -48.00% 2
Wales +4 3 - - 3
Northern Ireland +27 1 - -
North East -4 1 £50,000 +25.00%
South West -49 1 - - 2

Vulnerability Remediation
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 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 110 (37.04%) Azure
2 90 (30.30%) AWS
3 82 (27.61%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (24.24%) Datadog
5 52 (17.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (3.70%) GCP
7 9 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.03%) SaaS
8 3 (1.01%) IaaS
8 3 (1.01%) PaaS
9 2 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.67%) Serverless
9 2 (0.67%) WeChat
10 1 (0.34%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.34%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.34%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.87%) Firewall
2 55 (18.52%) DNS
3 30 (10.10%) Internet
4 26 (8.75%) DKIM
4 26 (8.75%) DMARC
5 21 (7.07%) Network Security
6 10 (3.37%) VPN
7 8 (2.69%) VLAN
7 8 (2.69%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.36%) DHCP
9 6 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (1.68%) PBX
10 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.01%) 802.11
12 2 (0.67%) DMZ
12 2 (0.67%) HTTP
12 2 (0.67%) LAN
12 2 (0.67%) SMTP
12 2 (0.67%) tcpdump
12 2 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.03%) Power BI
2 5 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.68%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.67%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) Snyk
General
1 120 (40.40%) Finance
2 119 (40.07%) Social Skills
3 78 (26.26%) Law
4 75 (25.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (16.16%) Marketing
6 22 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.06%) Banking
8 14 (4.71%) Legal
9 12 (4.04%) Games
10 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.02%) Advertising
11 6 (2.02%) Retail
12 5 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
15 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (33.00%) Analyst
2 72 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 68 (22.90%) Security Analyst
4 56 (18.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 52 (17.51%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 49 (16.50%) Lead
7 45 (15.15%) Senior
8 41 (13.80%) Lead Software Engineer
9 33 (11.11%) Information Analyst
9 33 (11.11%) Information Security Analyst
10 32 (10.77%) Security Engineer
11 26 (8.75%) Senior Analyst
11 26 (8.75%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 21 (7.07%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 20 (6.73%) Senior Security Analyst
14 18 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (5.72%) IT Engineer
15 17 (5.72%) Senior Security Engineer
15 17 (5.72%) Vulnerability Manager
16 13 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (24.24%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (2.69%) Middleware
3 3 (1.01%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.67%) EDI
4 2 (0.67%) REST
4 2 (0.67%) RESTful
5 1 (0.34%) .NET
5 1 (0.34%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.51%) Public Cloud
3 49 (16.50%) Cyberattack
4 41 (13.80%) Management Information System
5 21 (7.07%) Cyber Threat
6 20 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.03%) Operational Technology
8 9 (3.03%) PKI
8 9 (3.03%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.67%) BYOD
12 2 (0.67%) Digital Media
12 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.34%) IoT
13 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 83 (27.95%) Windows
2 19 (6.40%) Linux
3 15 (5.05%) Unix
4 12 (4.04%) VMS
5 4 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (52.19%) Cybersecurity
2 98 (33.00%) Information Security
3 85 (28.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 79 (26.60%) Agile
5 73 (24.58%) CI/CD
6 72 (24.24%) Architectural Design
6 72 (24.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 72 (24.24%) Community of Practice
6 72 (24.24%) Information Architecture
6 72 (24.24%) Machine Learning
6 72 (24.24%) Observability
6 72 (24.24%) Operational Stability
6 72 (24.24%) SDLC
6 72 (24.24%) Software Engineering
7 70 (23.57%) Continuous Delivery
7 70 (23.57%) Vulnerability Management
8 57 (19.19%) Identity Access Management
9 52 (17.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 45 (15.15%) Incident Response
11 43 (14.48%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.18%) Java
2 23 (7.74%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.72%) Python
4 5 (1.68%) Bash
5 2 (0.67%) Go
6 1 (0.34%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (14.81%) Degree
2 35 (11.78%) CISSP
3 34 (11.45%) CISM
4 20 (6.73%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.72%) CISA
6 16 (5.39%) GIAC
6 16 (5.39%) SC Cleared
7 14 (4.71%) PCI QSA
8 10 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (3.03%) CRISC
9 9 (3.03%) ISSMP
10 7 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.02%) CCNA
11 6 (2.02%) CCNP
12 5 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.35%) CEH
13 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.35%) CREST Certified
14 3 (1.01%) CCSA
14 3 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (20.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (10.10%) NIST
3 18 (6.06%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.37%) COBIT
4 10 (3.37%) GRC
5 7 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.02%) GDPR
6 6 (2.02%) NCSC
7 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.35%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.01%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (15.82%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (24.24%) Grafana
2 54 (18.18%) Terraform
3 28 (9.43%) WSUS
4 26 (8.75%) CASB
5 20 (6.73%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.06%) SCCM
7 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (3.37%) Ansible
9 9 (3.03%) Nessus
10 5 (1.68%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.35%) CSIRT
12 3 (1.01%) QRadar
13 2 (0.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (0.67%) Nmap
14 1 (0.34%) Backup Exec
14 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.34%) Puppet
14 1 (0.34%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 89 (29.97%) Microsoft
2 77 (25.93%) Splunk
3 72 (24.24%) Dynatrace
4 19 (6.40%) VMware
5 15 (5.05%) Cisco
6 14 (4.71%) Qualys
7 12 (4.04%) Apple
8 10 (3.37%) Google
8 10 (3.37%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.03%) Alibaba
9 9 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (2.02%) LogRhythm
11 3 (1.01%) SonicWALL
11 3 (1.01%) Veeam
12 2 (0.67%) Forcepoint
12 2 (0.67%) Huawei
12 2 (0.67%) N-able
12 2 (0.67%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.67%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.67%) Varonis