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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 245 285
Rank change year-on-year +33 +40 +28
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 513 259 290
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 1.08% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.18% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 178 208
10th Percentile £360 £321 £380
25th Percentile £469 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -3.30%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £533
% change year-on-year -0.99% -0.42% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 0
10th Percentile £48.15 £28.12 -
25th Percentile £55.75 £29.02 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £43.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.99% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.44 -
90th Percentile £84.60 £88.98 -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £43.00 -
% change year-on-year +89.56% - -

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 35,523 21,911 31,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.02% 91.34% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,505 14,200 20,503
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 974 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 0 206 £550 -0.09% 121
North of England +33 127 £523 -18.04% 80
South East -29 92 £525 - 99
Yorkshire +5 71 £535 - 29
North West +13 52 £525 -10.64% 29
South West -15 33 £552 +26.17% 53
Midlands -42 30 £469 -18.48% 39
West Midlands -45 24 £406 -35.00% 26
East Midlands -21 5 £638 +112.50% 13
East of England -39 5 £513 +7.89% 38
North East -26 4 £375 -45.45% 22
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 (2.92%) Confluence
2 10 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.56%) Apache
4 7 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.36%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 166 (32.36%) Azure
2 130 (25.34%) AWS
3 61 (11.89%) Entra ID
4 52 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (9.55%) GCP
6 31 (6.04%) SaaS
7 25 (4.87%) Azure Sentinel
8 20 (3.90%) GitHub
9 15 (2.92%) OpenShift
10 13 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (2.53%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.14%) Serverless
12 10 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.75%) IaaS
13 9 (1.75%) PaaS
13 9 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 50 (9.75%) Network Security
2 47 (9.16%) Firewall
3 23 (4.48%) DNS
4 14 (2.73%) DHCP
5 12 (2.34%) VPN
6 9 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.75%) WAN
7 8 (1.56%) LAN
8 7 (1.36%) BGP
8 7 (1.36%) IPsec
8 7 (1.36%) MPLS
9 6 (1.17%) HTTPS
9 6 (1.17%) Wireless
10 5 (0.97%) Internet
11 4 (0.78%) NGFW
11 4 (0.78%) SSL
12 3 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.58%) MQTT
13 2 (0.39%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.14%) Power BI
2 6 (1.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.58%) Big Data
5 3 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.39%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.19%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.87%) JIRA
2 19 (3.70%) GitLab
3 15 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.75%) Snyk
4 9 (1.75%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.17%) Git
6 3 (0.58%) AdminStudio
6 3 (0.58%) git-flow
6 3 (0.58%) InstallShield
6 3 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.39%) Flyway
7 2 (0.39%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.39%) Mockito
8 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 150 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 105 (20.47%) Finance
3 81 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.65%) Banking
6 26 (5.07%) Legal
7 25 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (3.90%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.92%) Publishing
10 14 (2.73%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.56%) Local Government
13 6 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.97%) Law
15 3 (0.58%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.39%) Arabic Language
16 2 (0.39%) Investment Banking
17 1 (0.19%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (12.67%) Analyst
2 60 (11.70%) Security Engineer
3 52 (10.14%) Architect
4 48 (9.36%) Lead
5 42 (8.19%) Consultant
6 40 (7.80%) Senior
7 35 (6.82%) Security Architect
8 24 (4.68%) Security Consultant
9 23 (4.48%) Security Analyst
9 23 (4.48%) Security Manager
10 22 (4.29%) Security Specialist
11 18 (3.51%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.12%) Administrator
13 15 (2.92%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 15 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (2.92%) Vulnerability Analyst
14 14 (2.73%) Senior Security Engineer
15 13 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (2.53%) Developer
15 13 (2.53%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.12%) SAP Basis
2 14 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.17%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.17%) Kafka
3 6 (1.17%) LDAP
3 6 (1.17%) RESTful
4 5 (0.97%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (0.78%) ADO
5 4 (0.78%) LangChain
5 4 (0.78%) PyTorch
5 4 (0.78%) REST
5 4 (0.78%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.58%) gRPC
6 3 (0.58%) Keycloak
6 3 (0.58%) OAuth
6 3 (0.58%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (0.58%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.58%) SLSA
6 3 (0.58%) Spring
6 3 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.62%) Security Posture
2 43 (8.38%) Operational Technology
3 36 (7.02%) Cloud Native
4 34 (6.63%) Onboarding
5 30 (5.85%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.70%) Virtual Team
8 17 (3.31%) Taxonomies
9 15 (2.92%) PKI
10 14 (2.73%) Cloud Security Posture
10 14 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
10 14 (2.73%) Product Ownership
11 13 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
12 12 (2.34%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.95%) SCADA
14 8 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.56%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.36%) CMDB
15 7 (1.36%) IoT
16 6 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.65%) Linux
2 69 (13.45%) Windows
3 26 (5.07%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.51%) Unix
6 7 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.97%) AIX
7 5 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.78%) HPUX
8 4 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.78%) Solaris
8 4 (0.78%) SUSE
9 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.19%) Android
10 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.19%) Rocky
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (43.27%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (21.83%) Incident Response
3 108 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 98 (19.10%) SIEM
5 97 (18.91%) Cloud Security
6 96 (18.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 95 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 91 (17.74%) Risk Management
10 83 (16.18%) Security Architecture
10 83 (16.18%) Threat Modelling
11 77 (15.01%) Security Operations
12 68 (13.26%) DevOps
13 67 (13.06%) Roadmaps
14 66 (12.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 61 (11.89%) DevSecOps
16 48 (9.36%) Application Security
16 48 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (9.36%) Validation
17 46 (8.97%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 69 (13.45%) Python
2 40 (7.80%) PowerShell
3 21 (4.09%) Bash
4 12 (2.34%) SQL
5 10 (1.95%) Bicep
6 9 (1.75%) Java
7 7 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.17%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.78%) Korn
10 3 (0.58%) Rust
11 2 (0.39%) Go
11 2 (0.39%) PromQL
12 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.19%) C#
12 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 155 (30.21%) Security Cleared
2 101 (19.69%) CISSP
2 101 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.87%) Degree
4 65 (12.67%) CISM
5 32 (6.24%) DV Cleared
6 30 (5.85%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (5.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 27 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 23 (4.48%) CCSP
10 17 (3.31%) CRISC
10 17 (3.31%) GIAC
11 14 (2.73%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.34%) CISA
12 12 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.95%) CEH
13 10 (1.95%) PMP
14 9 (1.75%) CESG Certified Professional
15 8 (1.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (18.13%) NIST
2 87 (16.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (6.82%) GRC
4 29 (5.65%) GDPR
5 28 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (5.07%) NCSC
7 18 (3.51%) SLA
8 14 (2.73%) NIST 800
8 14 (2.73%) SOC 2
9 13 (2.53%) PCI DSS
10 11 (2.14%) ISO 31000
10 11 (2.14%) QA
11 8 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.36%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.97%) COBIT
14 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.58%) IFRS
15 3 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (8.38%) Active Directory
2 35 (6.82%) Docker
3 22 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) GPFS
7 1 (0.19%) Lustre
7 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 44 (8.58%) Terraform
3 25 (4.87%) Ansible
4 24 (4.68%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (3.90%) Nessus
6 14 (2.73%) Grafana
6 14 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (2.73%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.36%) SCCM
8 6 (1.17%) Puppet
9 5 (0.97%) CASB
10 4 (0.78%) vRealize
11 3 (0.58%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.58%) Podman
12 2 (0.39%) Consul
12 2 (0.39%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.39%) QRadar
12 2 (0.39%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.39%) SELinux
12 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 95 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.92%) Tenable
3 47 (9.16%) Qualys
4 44 (8.58%) Splunk
5 27 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 26 (5.07%) Okta
7 23 (4.48%) SAP
8 18 (3.51%) CrowdStrike
9 16 (3.12%) Rapid7
10 14 (2.73%) VMware
11 13 (2.53%) Trend Micro
12 12 (2.34%) Google
12 12 (2.34%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.34%) Remedy
13 10 (1.95%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.75%) Oracle
15 8 (1.56%) Databricks
16 7 (1.36%) IBM
17 6 (1.17%) Cisco
17 6 (1.17%) Fortinet