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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 260 263
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +97
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 298 278 347
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.92% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.04% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 185 270
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £630 £675 £700
90th Percentile £771 £778 £793
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 21
10th Percentile £34.56 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £40.52 £53.13 £42.25
Median hourly rate £43.70 £57.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +17.35% -24.90%
75th Percentile £62.50 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.93 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.70 £57.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +17.35% -24.90%

All Process and 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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025. 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 -1 135 £568 -1.30% 62
North of England -7 56 £501 -3.27% 31
South East -28 42 £488 -5.57% 46
Yorkshire -12 32 £519 -20.23% 9
North West -9 24 £500 -3.38% 18
East of England -7 20 £465 +9.41% 5
Midlands -29 18 £500 -9.09% 11
South West -18 17 £450 -28.00% 22
West Midlands -24 14 £525 -4.55% 9
East Midlands -16 4 £419 - 2
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 (8.05%) Confluence
2 7 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.34%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 101 (33.89%) Azure
2 83 (27.85%) AWS
3 38 (12.75%) GCP
4 29 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (9.06%) Entra ID
6 19 (6.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (4.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.35%) IaaS
8 7 (2.35%) SaaS
9 6 (2.01%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.01%) Serverless
10 5 (1.68%) PaaS
11 4 (1.34%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.01%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.01%) GitHub
12 3 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.01%) OCI
13 2 (0.67%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.80%) Firewall
2 41 (13.76%) Network Security
3 16 (5.37%) DNS
4 13 (4.36%) VPN
5 12 (4.03%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.68%) WAN
7 7 (2.35%) LAN
7 7 (2.35%) SSL
8 6 (2.01%) Kerberos
8 6 (2.01%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.01%) Wireless
9 5 (1.68%) HTTP
10 4 (1.34%) DHCP
10 4 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.01%) SAN
11 3 (1.01%) SMTP
12 2 (0.67%) Internet
12 2 (0.67%) MPLS
12 2 (0.67%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.01%) Power BI
2 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.67%) Tableau
3 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.34%) DB2
3 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.34%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 33 (11.07%) JIRA
2 5 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.01%) GitLab
4 2 (0.67%) Git
4 2 (0.67%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.34%) Snyk
5 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 69 (23.15%) Finance
3 40 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.70%) Banking
6 14 (4.70%) Legal
7 9 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.68%) Retail
9 5 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.68%) Military
9 5 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.34%) Games
13 1 (0.34%) Law
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (18.46%) Analyst
2 51 (17.11%) Architect
3 42 (14.09%) Security Architect
3 42 (14.09%) Senior
4 38 (12.75%) Security Engineer
5 32 (10.74%) Security Analyst
6 23 (7.72%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 20 (6.71%) Lead
8 19 (6.38%) Consultant
9 16 (5.37%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.36%) Security Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.02%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.02%) Security Manager
12 9 (3.02%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
12 9 (3.02%) Senior Security Analyst
12 9 (3.02%) Tester
13 8 (2.68%) Lead Architect
13 8 (2.68%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.70%) OAuth
2 16 (5.37%) SAML
3 7 (2.35%) .NET
4 6 (2.01%) OpenID
5 5 (1.68%) JWT
5 5 (1.68%) LDAP
6 2 (0.67%) EDI
6 2 (0.67%) Middleware
6 2 (0.67%) Node.js
6 2 (0.67%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.67%) React
6 2 (0.67%) REST
6 2 (0.67%) Web Services
7 1 (0.34%) Kafka
7 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.34%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.34%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.34%) XML
7 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.43%) Security Posture
2 24 (8.05%) Cyber Threat
2 24 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 21 (7.05%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (4.70%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.03%) Cyber Defence
6 12 (4.03%) Operational Technology
7 11 (3.69%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.01%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.34%) BYOD
10 4 (1.34%) CSOC
11 3 (1.01%) CMDB
11 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.01%) SCADA
12 2 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.46%) Windows
2 28 (9.40%) Linux
3 16 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.03%) Mac OS
4 12 (4.03%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.02%) Unix
6 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.67%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) Android
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Rocky
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (50.67%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (37.92%) Incident Response
3 89 (29.87%) Security Operations
4 83 (27.85%) Cloud Security
5 78 (26.17%) SIEM
6 56 (18.79%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 53 (17.79%) Threat Intelligence
8 50 (16.78%) Identity Access Management
9 47 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (14.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 41 (13.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 41 (13.76%) Penetration Testing
12 40 (13.42%) Information Security
13 39 (13.09%) Threat Modelling
14 38 (12.75%) Risk Management
15 37 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (12.08%) CI/CD
17 35 (11.74%) DevSecOps
18 33 (11.07%) Application Security
19 31 (10.40%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.42%) Python
2 28 (9.40%) PowerShell
3 22 (7.38%) Bash
4 8 (2.68%) Java
4 8 (2.68%) SQL
5 6 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.67%) Bicep
7 2 (0.67%) Go
7 2 (0.67%) PHP
8 1 (0.34%) Ruby
8 1 (0.34%) Rust
8 1 (0.34%) Scala
8 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 77 (25.84%) CISSP
3 70 (23.49%) SC Cleared
4 41 (13.76%) CISM
4 41 (13.76%) Degree
5 24 (8.05%) CEH
6 23 (7.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 17 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (5.37%) Master's Degree
9 15 (5.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (4.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (4.03%) Azure Certification
11 12 (4.03%) CCSP
12 11 (3.69%) GCIH
12 11 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (3.36%) OSCP
13 10 (3.36%) PhD
14 9 (3.02%) GIAC
15 8 (2.68%) AWS Certification
15 8 (2.68%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (24.50%) NIST
2 69 (23.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (9.40%) GDPR
4 22 (7.38%) PCI DSS
5 14 (4.70%) NCSC
6 12 (4.03%) GRC
7 10 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (3.36%) NIST 800
8 7 (2.35%) HIPAA
9 6 (2.01%) COBIT
9 6 (2.01%) SLA
10 5 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.68%) PSD2
11 4 (1.34%) PMO
12 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (1.01%) QA
12 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.67%) GxP
13 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 23 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.70%) Docker
3 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.34%) GPFS
5 1 (0.34%) Lustre
5 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (7.38%) SCCM
2 21 (7.05%) Nessus
3 19 (6.38%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.69%) Ansible
5 10 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.02%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (3.02%) Terraform
7 7 (2.35%) CASB
7 7 (2.35%) Norton AntiVirus
8 5 (1.68%) WSUS
9 3 (1.01%) CSIRT
9 3 (1.01%) Grafana
9 3 (1.01%) Nexpose
9 3 (1.01%) QRadar
10 2 (0.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.67%) Podman
10 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.67%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 87 (29.19%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.42%) Qualys
2 37 (12.42%) Tenable
3 26 (8.72%) Splunk
4 17 (5.70%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (5.70%) CyberArk
4 17 (5.70%) Rapid7
5 16 (5.37%) Google
5 16 (5.37%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.36%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.69%) Cisco
8 10 (3.36%) BiZZdesign
8 10 (3.36%) VMware
9 9 (3.02%) Centrify
9 9 (3.02%) McAfee
10 7 (2.35%) Apple
10 7 (2.35%) Remedy
10 7 (2.35%) Symantec
11 6 (2.01%) Oracle
12 5 (1.68%) Tanium