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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 252 271
Rank change year-on-year +53 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 669 293 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.06% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.17% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 208 207
10th Percentile £371 £321 £389
25th Percentile £463 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -7.29%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £675
90th Percentile £736 £747 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 3
10th Percentile £58.75 £28.72 £51.25
25th Percentile £69.90 £30.06 £53.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83.00 £81.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.75 £102.20 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% -11.54%

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 39,321 25,058 28,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.80% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,195 15,905 17,612
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,661 1,475 1,343
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.27 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.83 £20.24
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +15 281 £563 +4.99% 312
South East +14 155 £550 +5.77% 115
North of England +26 128 £530 -1.49% 73
Yorkshire +26 66 £581 +8.14% 22
North West -17 52 £503 -3.29% 43
South West -26 40 £588 +46.88% 41
Midlands -31 28 £525 - 34
East of England -19 26 £513 +13.89% 21
West Midlands -27 25 £525 -20.75% 16
North East - 10 £375 - 8
East Midlands -16 2 £638 +37.84% 18
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 22 (3.29%) Confluence
2 20 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.54%) Apache
3 17 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.79%) Jupyter
5 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.60%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.30%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 220 (32.88%) Azure
2 181 (27.06%) AWS
3 72 (10.76%) Entra ID
4 69 (10.31%) GCP
5 66 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (8.82%) GitHub
7 35 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.89%) Azure Sentinel
10 23 (3.44%) SaaS
11 20 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (2.84%) OCI
13 17 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
14 16 (2.39%) Power Platform
15 15 (2.24%) Amazon S3
16 14 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (1.64%) Datadog
18 10 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
19 9 (1.35%) OpenShift
19 9 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.61%) Network Security
2 40 (5.98%) Firewall
3 15 (2.24%) DNS
3 15 (2.24%) WAN
4 13 (1.94%) MPLS
5 12 (1.79%) BGP
5 12 (1.79%) IPsec
5 12 (1.79%) LAN
6 10 (1.49%) VPN
7 9 (1.35%) Broadband
8 8 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.75%) Intranet
10 4 (0.60%) DHCP
10 4 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.60%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.60%) MQTT
11 3 (0.45%) HTTP
11 3 (0.45%) Internet
11 3 (0.45%) NGFW
11 3 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.09%) Relational Database
2 12 (1.79%) Power BI
3 10 (1.49%) Big Data
4 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.45%) Power Query
7 3 (0.45%) Trino
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.30%) Flink
8 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.30%) Metadata
8 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.15%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (6.58%) GitLab
2 30 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 27 (4.04%) JIRA
4 22 (3.29%) Git
5 13 (1.94%) Selenium
6 11 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.05%) Snyk
8 4 (0.60%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.45%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.45%) InstallShield
10 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.30%) Flyway
10 2 (0.30%) git-flow
10 2 (0.30%) JUnit
10 2 (0.30%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.30%) Mockito
10 2 (0.30%) MSI
10 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 234 (34.98%) Social Skills
2 135 (20.18%) Finance
3 87 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.28%) Banking
6 30 (4.48%) Aerospace
7 27 (4.04%) Legal
8 21 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (2.24%) Military
12 12 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.64%) Local Government
13 11 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.90%) Law
16 5 (0.75%) Publishing
17 4 (0.60%) Retail
18 3 (0.45%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 109 (16.29%) Analyst
2 80 (11.96%) Lead
3 68 (10.16%) Consultant
4 60 (8.97%) Senior
5 58 (8.67%) Architect
6 52 (7.77%) Security Engineer
7 50 (7.47%) Security Analyst
8 42 (6.28%) Security Consultant
9 40 (5.98%) Security Architect
10 29 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 27 (4.04%) Security Manager
13 26 (3.89%) Security Specialist
14 24 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 24 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.44%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 21 (3.14%) Developer
16 21 (3.14%) Vulnerability Analyst
17 20 (2.99%) DevSecOps Consultant
18 18 (2.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (14.35%) Terraform
2 16 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (2.24%) REST
4 13 (1.94%) Kafka
4 13 (1.94%) Loki
5 8 (1.20%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.05%) RESTful
7 6 (0.90%) ModSecurity
7 6 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.75%) SLSA
9 4 (0.60%) .NET
9 4 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.60%) gRPC
9 4 (0.60%) JDBC
9 4 (0.60%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.60%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (0.60%) SAP Basis
10 3 (0.45%) JSON
10 3 (0.45%) OAuth
10 3 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 108 (16.14%) Security Posture
2 58 (8.67%) Onboarding
3 56 (8.37%) Cyber Threat
4 50 (7.47%) Operational Technology
5 40 (5.98%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.38%) Management Information System
6 36 (5.38%) Security Operations Centre
7 21 (3.14%) Cloud Security Posture
8 20 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
9 19 (2.84%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.54%) SCADA
11 16 (2.39%) Data Centre
12 14 (2.09%) CMDB
12 14 (2.09%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.35%) Social Media
15 8 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.20%) NHS
15 8 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 92 (13.75%) Windows
2 79 (11.81%) Linux
3 28 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.39%) Unix
6 15 (2.24%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.90%) AIX
8 5 (0.75%) HPUX
8 5 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.75%) Solaris
8 5 (0.75%) SUSE
8 5 (0.75%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.30%) Android
11 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (53.66%) Cybersecurity
2 190 (28.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 179 (26.76%) Incident Response
4 170 (25.41%) CI/CD
5 167 (24.96%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 145 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 142 (21.23%) Cloud Security
8 140 (20.93%) Risk Management
9 137 (20.48%) Security Operations
10 119 (17.79%) SIEM
11 112 (16.74%) DevSecOps
12 111 (16.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 105 (15.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 94 (14.05%) DevOps
15 90 (13.45%) Security Architecture
16 86 (12.86%) Identity Access Management
17 85 (12.71%) Application Security
18 83 (12.41%) Threat Modelling
19 82 (12.26%) Information Security
20 74 (11.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 117 (17.49%) Python
2 84 (12.56%) PowerShell
3 40 (5.98%) Bash
4 30 (4.48%) SQL
5 26 (3.89%) Bicep
6 12 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.05%) Java
9 6 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.60%) C#
10 4 (0.60%) Go
10 4 (0.60%) Rust
11 3 (0.45%) Perl
11 3 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.30%) PromQL
13 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 247 (36.92%) Security Cleared
2 172 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 126 (18.83%) CISSP
4 89 (13.30%) CISM
5 64 (9.57%) DV Cleared
6 62 (9.27%) Cisco Certification
7 54 (8.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 51 (7.62%) Degree
9 32 (4.78%) CCSP
10 30 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 20 (2.99%) AWS Certification
12 18 (2.69%) Azure Certification
13 17 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (2.39%) CEH
14 16 (2.39%) CRISC
15 15 (2.24%) CISA
16 14 (2.09%) GIAC
17 13 (1.94%) PMP
18 12 (1.79%) PMI Certification
19 11 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (20.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (19.88%) NIST
3 60 (8.97%) NCSC
4 55 (8.22%) GDPR
5 50 (7.47%) GRC
6 47 (7.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (3.59%) SLA
8 20 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 20 (2.99%) NIST 800
9 17 (2.54%) PCI DSS
10 15 (2.24%) QA
11 11 (1.64%) ISO 31000
11 11 (1.64%) SOC 2
12 9 (1.35%) COBIT
12 9 (1.35%) Data Quality
13 7 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (0.90%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.75%) Def Stans
15 5 (0.75%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (8.97%) Docker
2 56 (8.37%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.30%) HDFS
7 2 (0.30%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.15%) IAG
8 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (13.90%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.98%) Ansible
3 32 (4.78%) Grafana
4 29 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.39%) SCCM
7 15 (2.24%) Argo
8 11 (1.64%) Nessus
9 10 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.35%) Puppet
11 5 (0.75%) vRealize
12 4 (0.60%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.60%) OPNET
12 4 (0.60%) Podman
12 4 (0.60%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.60%) QRadar
13 3 (0.45%) systemd
14 2 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.30%) Nexpose
14 2 (0.30%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 164 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.22%) Qualys
3 50 (7.47%) Tenable
4 39 (5.83%) Splunk
5 35 (5.23%) ServiceNow
6 32 (4.78%) Oracle
7 27 (4.04%) CrowdStrike
8 24 (3.59%) VMware
9 20 (2.99%) Google
9 20 (2.99%) Trend Micro
10 17 (2.54%) Rapid7
11 13 (1.94%) Tanium
12 12 (1.79%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.64%) Databricks
14 9 (1.35%) Okta
15 8 (1.20%) Clearswift
15 8 (1.20%) Remedy
16 7 (1.05%) Apple
16 7 (1.05%) F5
16 7 (1.05%) Fortinet