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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 258 280
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 426 242 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.98% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.08% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 165 217
10th Percentile £335 £368 £389
25th Percentile £469 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -6.65%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £772 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.79% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 0
10th Percentile £46.97 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 -
90th Percentile £84.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £54.50 -
% change year-on-year +49.54% - -

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 33,832 22,384 32,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.08% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,627 14,686 21,247
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,111 905 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.47
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -9 153 £550 -5.98% 61
North of England +27 112 £540 +8.00% 45
South East -50 70 £525 -4.55% 62
Yorkshire +8 64 £513 - 13
North West +2 48 £545 +21.11% 22
Midlands -39 35 £500 -13.04% 19
South West -20 29 £535 +25.88% 13
West Midlands -43 29 £500 -20.00% 11
East of England -22 7 £480 -35.57% 15
East Midlands -29 5 £638 +112.50% 8
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 15 (3.52%) Confluence
2 9 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.70%) 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 (5.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 144 (33.80%) Azure
2 111 (26.06%) AWS
3 42 (9.86%) Entra ID
4 39 (9.15%) GCP
5 38 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.10%) SaaS
7 16 (3.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (3.05%) GitHub
9 11 (2.58%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.35%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.35%) Serverless
11 8 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.27%) Firewall
2 44 (10.33%) Network Security
3 23 (5.40%) DNS
4 13 (3.05%) DHCP
4 13 (3.05%) VPN
5 9 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.41%) HTTPS
6 6 (1.41%) Wireless
7 4 (0.94%) Internet
7 4 (0.94%) SSL
8 3 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.70%) WAN
9 2 (0.47%) LAN
9 2 (0.47%) NGFW
9 2 (0.47%) SAN
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.23%) DKIM
10 1 (0.23%) DMARC
10 1 (0.23%) MPLS
10 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.35%) Power BI
2 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.70%) Big Data
3 3 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.47%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.87%) JIRA
2 9 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.11%) Snyk
3 7 (1.64%) GitLab
4 3 (0.70%) Git
4 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.47%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.47%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.23%) git-flow
6 1 (0.23%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 125 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.31%) Finance
3 70 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (5.16%) Banking
7 21 (4.93%) Legal
8 19 (4.46%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.52%) Publishing
10 7 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.41%) Local Government
12 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.94%) Retail
14 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.70%) Military
15 2 (0.47%) Arabic Language
15 2 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 59 (13.85%) Security Engineer
2 57 (13.38%) Analyst
3 46 (10.80%) Architect
4 39 (9.15%) Lead
4 39 (9.15%) Senior
5 32 (7.51%) Security Architect
6 23 (5.40%) Consultant
6 23 (5.40%) Security Manager
7 20 (4.69%) Security Analyst
8 18 (4.23%) Business Analyst
9 16 (3.76%) Administrator
9 16 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 14 (3.29%) Security Consultant
11 13 (3.05%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.05%) Senior Security Engineer
11 13 (3.05%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
12 12 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (2.82%) Security Officer
12 12 (2.82%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 11 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.76%) SAP Basis
2 9 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.41%) LDAP
4 4 (0.94%) .NET
4 4 (0.94%) ADO
4 4 (0.94%) Kafka
4 4 (0.94%) LangChain
4 4 (0.94%) OAuth
4 4 (0.94%) PyTorch
4 4 (0.94%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.94%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.70%) Node.js
5 3 (0.70%) OpenID
5 3 (0.70%) REST
5 3 (0.70%) SAML
6 2 (0.47%) JWT
6 2 (0.47%) Middleware
6 2 (0.47%) SOAP
6 2 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.62%) Security Posture
2 32 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 27 (6.34%) Management Information System
4 26 (6.10%) Onboarding
5 24 (5.63%) Operational Technology
6 18 (4.23%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.99%) Taxonomies
8 16 (3.76%) Cyber Threat
9 15 (3.52%) PKI
10 14 (3.29%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
12 12 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
13 11 (2.58%) Product Ownership
14 9 (2.11%) Data Centre
14 9 (2.11%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.41%) IoT
16 6 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
17 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.56%) Linux
2 41 (9.62%) Windows
3 18 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.58%) Unix
6 4 (0.94%) AIX
6 4 (0.94%) HPUX
6 4 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (0.94%) Solaris
6 4 (0.94%) SUSE
6 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.47%) Rocky
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (42.72%) Cybersecurity
2 102 (23.94%) Incident Response
3 85 (19.95%) Cloud Security
4 78 (18.31%) SIEM
5 74 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 69 (16.20%) Threat Modelling
8 66 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 65 (15.26%) Risk Management
10 63 (14.79%) Security Operations
11 61 (14.32%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 59 (13.85%) Security Architecture
13 52 (12.21%) Roadmaps
14 48 (11.27%) DevSecOps
15 45 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 44 (10.33%) Identity Access Management
17 43 (10.09%) Computer Science
18 42 (9.86%) Agile
18 42 (9.86%) DevOps
18 42 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.44%) Python
2 27 (6.34%) PowerShell
3 21 (4.93%) Bash
4 11 (2.58%) SQL
5 7 (1.64%) Java
6 4 (0.94%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.94%) Korn
6 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.70%) Bicep
8 2 (0.47%) Go
8 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.23%) C#
9 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) Rust
9 1 (0.23%) Scala
9 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 85 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 79 (18.54%) CISSP
4 55 (12.91%) Degree
5 48 (11.27%) CISM
6 28 (6.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 22 (5.16%) DV Cleared
8 17 (3.99%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (3.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 14 (3.29%) CCSP
11 13 (3.05%) GIAC
11 13 (3.05%) PMP
12 12 (2.82%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.82%) CEH
13 11 (2.58%) Azure Certification
13 11 (2.58%) CREST Certified
13 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.58%) PMI Certification
14 10 (2.35%) CISA
14 10 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (18.31%) NIST
2 66 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (6.81%) GRC
4 20 (4.69%) NCSC
5 19 (4.46%) GDPR
6 15 (3.52%) NIST 800
6 15 (3.52%) SLA
7 10 (2.35%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.35%) SOC 2
8 9 (2.11%) QA
9 8 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.17%) COBIT
10 5 (1.17%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.16%) Docker
3 14 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.47%) GPFS
6 2 (0.47%) Lustre
6 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (5.40%) Terraform
4 18 (4.23%) Nessus
5 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.58%) Ansible
7 6 (1.41%) SCCM
8 5 (1.17%) CASB
8 5 (1.17%) Grafana
8 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.70%) OpenVAS
9 3 (0.70%) Puppet
9 3 (0.70%) QRadar
9 3 (0.70%) SELinux
10 2 (0.47%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.47%) Podman
11 1 (0.23%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.23%) Istio
11 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 69 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.27%) Tenable
3 36 (8.45%) Qualys
3 36 (8.45%) Splunk
4 25 (5.87%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.40%) Okta
5 23 (5.40%) SAP
6 16 (3.76%) Rapid7
7 14 (3.29%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.82%) Remedy
9 10 (2.35%) Oracle
10 9 (2.11%) Google
11 8 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.88%) Databricks
11 8 (1.88%) IBM
11 8 (1.88%) VMware
12 7 (1.64%) Cisco
13 6 (1.41%) ForeScout
13 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.41%) Trend Micro