Vulnerability Management Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Vulnerability Management Engineer
UK > England

The median Vulnerability Management Engineer daily rate in England is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 476 553
Rank change year-on-year -70 +77 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Management Engineer 8 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.023% 0.004% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.004% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £450 - £405
25th Percentile £500 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +9.09% +29.19%
75th Percentile £642 £538 £711
90th Percentile £650 - £788
UK median daily rate £570 £525 £481
% change year-on-year +8.48% +9.09% +29.19%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 31,465 23,850 35,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 93.03% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,965 14,903 23,634
10th Percentile £302 £294 £275
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,017 693 2,141
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.50 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.65 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -12.01%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.41 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -6.67%

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Vulnerability Management Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancies in England

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management Engineer in England

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North West - 3 £643 -
North of England - 3 £643 -
London -29 2 £500 -4.76%
Midlands - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Vulnerability Management Engineer
UK

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 February 2026, Vulnerability Management Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Vulnerability Management Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (50.00%) Nessus
3 4 (50.00%) Tenable
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (37.50%) CASB
4 3 (37.50%) CISSP
4 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
4 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) LDAP
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Log Correlation
4 3 (37.50%) MCSA
4 3 (37.50%) MCSE
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) Qualys
4 3 (37.50%) Remedy
4 3 (37.50%) Splunk
4 3 (37.50%) SSL
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (37.50%) Ticket Management

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Log Correlation
4 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Ticket Management
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Server Patching
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
6 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (37.50%) MCSA
1 3 (37.50%) MCSE
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Nessus
2 3 (37.50%) CASB
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Tenable
2 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
2 3 (37.50%) Qualys
2 3 (37.50%) Remedy
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Rapid7