Vulnerability Management Contract Job Trends in England

Vulnerability Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 259 284
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 +18
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 427 228 292
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 0.94% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.04% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 152 223
10th Percentile £335 £400 £391
25th Percentile £425 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £617 £639 £675
90th Percentile £714 £775 £774
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 1 1
10th Percentile £41.94 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £45.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% -16.15% -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £84.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.70% -16.15% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in England

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vulnerability Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
London -5 159 £550 -5.17% 46
North of England +24 117 £511 +13.62% 31
Yorkshire +8 71 £488 - 10
South East -58 63 £509 -3.46% 31
North West -5 46 £566 +41.56% 14
Midlands -47 35 £500 -20.00% 9
South West -11 28 £519 +22.12% 15
West Midlands -41 27 £469 -29.25% 8
East of England -22 10 £480 -38.06% 10
East Midlands -26 7 £638 +112.50% 1
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (5.62%) Confluence
2 9 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 144 (33.72%) Azure
2 110 (25.76%) AWS
3 46 (10.77%) Entra ID
4 38 (8.90%) GCP
5 37 (8.67%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (5.85%) SaaS
7 18 (4.22%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.58%) GitHub
9 11 (2.58%) Serverless
10 10 (2.34%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.34%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.41%) IaaS
13 6 (1.41%) PaaS
14 5 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 55 (12.88%) Firewall
2 43 (10.07%) Network Security
3 22 (5.15%) DNS
4 15 (3.51%) VPN
5 12 (2.81%) DHCP
6 10 (2.34%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.87%) Wireless
8 6 (1.41%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.17%) WAN
10 4 (0.94%) Internet
10 4 (0.94%) SSL
11 3 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.70%) LAN
11 3 (0.70%) SAN
12 2 (0.47%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.47%) NAS
12 2 (0.47%) NGFW
12 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.34%) Power BI
2 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.47%) Big Data
4 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (7.73%) JIRA
2 12 (2.81%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.11%) Snyk
4 7 (1.64%) GitLab
5 3 (0.70%) Git
5 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.47%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.47%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.23%) git-flow
7 1 (0.23%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 117 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.39%) Finance
3 68 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (4.22%) Aerospace
7 17 (3.98%) Legal
8 15 (3.51%) Publishing
9 14 (3.28%) Banking
10 7 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.17%) Local Government
11 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.17%) Retail
12 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.94%) Military
13 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 63 (14.75%) Security Engineer
2 56 (13.11%) Analyst
3 52 (12.18%) Architect
4 46 (10.77%) Senior
5 38 (8.90%) Lead
5 38 (8.90%) Security Architect
6 23 (5.39%) Security Analyst
7 22 (5.15%) Security Manager
8 20 (4.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 19 (4.45%) Consultant
10 18 (4.22%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.98%) Administrator
12 13 (3.04%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.04%) Senior Security Engineer
12 13 (3.04%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
13 12 (2.81%) Security Consultant
13 12 (2.81%) Vulnerability Analyst
14 11 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 11 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.75%) SAP Basis
2 9 (2.11%) OAuth
3 8 (1.87%) SAML
4 6 (1.41%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.41%) LDAP
5 5 (1.17%) JWT
6 4 (0.94%) .NET
6 4 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.94%) Kafka
6 4 (0.94%) LangChain
6 4 (0.94%) Middleware
6 4 (0.94%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.94%) REST
6 4 (0.94%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.94%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.70%) ADO
7 3 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.70%) Node.js
7 3 (0.70%) OpenID
7 3 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (11.94%) Security Posture
2 38 (8.90%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.85%) Operational Technology
5 21 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.68%) Cyber Threat
7 17 (3.98%) Taxonomies
8 15 (3.51%) Cyber Defence
9 14 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
9 14 (3.28%) PKI
9 14 (3.28%) Virtual Team
10 13 (3.04%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (2.58%) Product Ownership
12 10 (2.34%) Public Cloud
13 9 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.64%) IoT
15 6 (1.41%) Data Centre
15 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.90%) Linux
1 38 (8.90%) Windows
2 18 (4.22%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.64%) Unix
5 4 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.47%) Rocky
6 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) CentOS
7 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (44.26%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (26.23%) Incident Response
3 87 (20.37%) Cloud Security
4 77 (18.03%) SIEM
5 76 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (16.86%) Security Operations
7 71 (16.63%) CI/CD
8 67 (15.69%) Threat Modelling
9 65 (15.22%) Risk Management
10 62 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 57 (13.35%) Security Architecture
12 52 (12.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 51 (11.94%) DevSecOps
14 50 (11.71%) Roadmaps
15 48 (11.24%) Identity Access Management
15 48 (11.24%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
16 46 (10.77%) Computer Science
16 46 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (10.54%) Agile
18 43 (10.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (12.88%) Python
2 30 (7.03%) PowerShell
3 22 (5.15%) Bash
4 12 (2.81%) SQL
5 8 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.64%) Java
7 5 (1.17%) Bicep
8 4 (0.94%) Korn
9 3 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.47%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.23%) C#
11 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.23%) Rust
11 1 (0.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 130 (30.44%) Security Cleared
2 99 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 78 (18.27%) CISSP
4 60 (14.05%) Degree
5 49 (11.48%) CISM
6 27 (6.32%) CompTIA Security+
7 16 (3.75%) CEH
8 15 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 15 (3.51%) Master's Degree
9 14 (3.28%) GIAC
10 13 (3.04%) CREST Certified
11 12 (2.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.81%) PMP
12 11 (2.58%) AWS Certification
12 11 (2.58%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (2.58%) CCSP
13 10 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (19.91%) NIST
2 70 (16.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (5.62%) NCSC
4 23 (5.39%) GRC
5 22 (5.15%) GDPR
6 16 (3.75%) NIST 800
7 15 (3.51%) SLA
8 12 (2.81%) PCI DSS
9 10 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (2.34%) SOC 2
10 9 (2.11%) QA
11 6 (1.41%) COBIT
12 5 (1.17%) HIPAA
12 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.70%) GxP
15 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.39%) Docker
3 11 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.47%) GPFS
6 2 (0.47%) Lustre
6 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.47%) vSphere
7 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.32%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (5.85%) Terraform
4 21 (4.92%) Nessus
5 15 (3.51%) Ansible
6 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.34%) SCCM
8 7 (1.64%) CASB
9 5 (1.17%) Grafana
9 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.94%) QRadar
11 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.70%) Norton AntiVirus
11 3 (0.70%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.70%) Puppet
11 3 (0.70%) SELinux
12 2 (0.47%) Podman
12 2 (0.47%) SCOM
12 2 (0.47%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.94%) Tenable
3 43 (10.07%) Splunk
4 34 (7.96%) Qualys
5 25 (5.85%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.39%) Okta
6 23 (5.39%) SAP
7 18 (4.22%) CyberArk
8 16 (3.75%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.58%) Google
10 10 (2.34%) Cisco
11 9 (2.11%) Centrify
11 9 (2.11%) Remedy
11 9 (2.11%) VMware
12 8 (1.87%) BiZZdesign
12 8 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.87%) IBM
13 7 (1.64%) Databricks
14 6 (1.41%) ForeScout
15 5 (1.17%) Zscaler