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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 249 280
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 +28
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 427 243 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.99% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.09% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 164 219
10th Percentile £335 £366 £385
25th Percentile £463 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.65%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 1 0
10th Percentile £44.05 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 -
90th Percentile £84.60 - -
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 33,609 22,244 32,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 91.01% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,526 14,625 21,310
10th Percentile £313 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 884 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £63.94 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
% change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -24 153 £550 -5.17% 58
North of England +26 116 £513 +2.50% 44
South East -56 68 £524 -4.77% 61
Yorkshire +5 67 £500 - 15
North West +5 49 £540 +20.00% 20
Midlands -50 35 £500 -13.04% 17
South West -18 29 £520 +25.94% 16
West Midlands -41 29 £500 -20.00% 9
East of England -23 8 £480 -35.57% 12
East Midlands -28 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 19 (4.45%) Confluence
2 10 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.94%) 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 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 149 (34.89%) Azure
2 113 (26.46%) AWS
3 43 (10.07%) Entra ID
4 41 (9.60%) GCP
5 38 (8.90%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (5.85%) SaaS
7 16 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (3.04%) GitHub
9 11 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.58%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.34%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.34%) Serverless
11 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.94%) Firewall
2 43 (10.07%) Network Security
3 22 (5.15%) DNS
4 12 (2.81%) DHCP
4 12 (2.81%) 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%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.23%) MPLS
10 1 (0.23%) SMTP
10 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.34%) 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 30 (7.03%) 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
1 122 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 77 (18.03%) Finance
3 68 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.68%) Legal
7 19 (4.45%) Aerospace
7 19 (4.45%) Banking
8 15 (3.51%) Publishing
9 7 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.17%) Local Government
10 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Retail
12 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.70%) Military
13 2 (0.47%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (14.52%) Security Engineer
2 55 (12.88%) Analyst
3 46 (10.77%) Architect
4 40 (9.37%) Senior
5 37 (8.67%) Lead
6 32 (7.49%) Security Architect
7 23 (5.39%) Consultant
7 23 (5.39%) Security Manager
8 19 (4.45%) Security Analyst
9 18 (4.22%) Business Analyst
10 17 (3.98%) Administrator
11 16 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 14 (3.28%) Security Consultant
13 13 (3.04%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.04%) Senior Security Engineer
13 13 (3.04%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
14 12 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (2.81%) Vulnerability Analyst
15 11 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 11 (2.58%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.75%) SAP Basis
2 8 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.64%) OAuth
4 6 (1.41%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.41%) LDAP
4 6 (1.41%) SAML
5 5 (1.17%) JWT
6 4 (0.94%) .NET
6 4 (0.94%) ADO
6 4 (0.94%) Kafka
6 4 (0.94%) LangChain
6 4 (0.94%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.94%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.94%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.70%) Middleware
7 3 (0.70%) Node.js
7 3 (0.70%) OpenID
7 3 (0.70%) REST
8 2 (0.47%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.88%) Security Posture
2 33 (7.73%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.39%) Management Information System
4 23 (5.39%) Operational Technology
5 17 (3.98%) Cyber Threat
5 17 (3.98%) Taxonomies
5 17 (3.98%) Virtual Team
6 15 (3.51%) Cloud Security Posture
6 15 (3.51%) PKI
7 13 (3.04%) Security Operations Centre
8 12 (2.81%) Cyber Defence
9 11 (2.58%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.34%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.11%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.41%) IoT
13 6 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.07%) Linux
2 40 (9.37%) Windows
3 18 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.34%) Unix
6 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.70%) AIX
7 3 (0.70%) HPUX
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (0.70%) Solaris
7 3 (0.70%) SUSE
8 2 (0.47%) Rocky
8 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.23%) Android
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (43.09%) Cybersecurity
2 99 (23.19%) Incident Response
3 90 (21.08%) Cloud Security
4 78 (18.27%) SIEM
5 74 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (17.10%) CI/CD
7 69 (16.16%) Threat Modelling
8 66 (15.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 65 (15.22%) Security Operations
10 64 (14.99%) Risk Management
11 59 (13.82%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 58 (13.58%) Security Architecture
13 52 (12.18%) Roadmaps
14 50 (11.71%) DevSecOps
15 46 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 43 (10.07%) Agile
16 43 (10.07%) Computer Science
16 43 (10.07%) DevOps
16 43 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
16 43 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 57 (13.35%) Python
2 28 (6.56%) PowerShell
3 21 (4.92%) Bash
4 11 (2.58%) SQL
5 7 (1.64%) Java
5 7 (1.64%) 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
1 129 (30.21%) Security Cleared
2 90 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 78 (18.27%) CISSP
4 57 (13.35%) Degree
5 49 (11.48%) CISM
6 28 (6.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 20 (4.68%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (3.51%) CEH
10 14 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (3.04%) CCSP
11 13 (3.04%) GIAC
11 13 (3.04%) PMP
12 12 (2.81%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.81%) CREST Certified
13 11 (2.58%) Azure Certification
13 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.58%) PMI Certification
14 10 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (2.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (19.44%) NIST
2 70 (16.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (6.56%) GRC
4 21 (4.92%) GDPR
4 21 (4.92%) NCSC
5 17 (3.98%) NIST 800
6 15 (3.51%) SLA
7 12 (2.81%) PCI DSS
8 10 (2.34%) SOC 2
9 9 (2.11%) QA
10 8 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (1.17%) COBIT
11 5 (1.17%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.39%) Docker
3 13 (3.04%) 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 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.62%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (5.39%) Terraform
4 19 (4.45%) Nessus
5 12 (2.81%) Ansible
6 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.87%) SCCM
8 6 (1.41%) CASB
9 5 (1.17%) Grafana
9 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.70%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.70%) OpenVAS
10 3 (0.70%) Puppet
10 3 (0.70%) QRadar
10 3 (0.70%) SELinux
11 2 (0.47%) Podman
11 2 (0.47%) SCOM
12 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.23%) McAfee ePO
12 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 49 (11.48%) Tenable
3 40 (9.37%) Splunk
4 36 (8.43%) Qualys
5 25 (5.85%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.39%) Okta
6 23 (5.39%) SAP
7 16 (3.75%) Rapid7
8 14 (3.28%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.58%) Remedy
10 10 (2.34%) Google
11 9 (2.11%) Oracle
12 8 (1.87%) Cisco
12 8 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.87%) Databricks
12 8 (1.87%) IBM
12 8 (1.87%) VMware
13 6 (1.41%) ForeScout
14 5 (1.17%) Trend Micro
14 5 (1.17%) Varonis