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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 240 272
Rank change year-on-year +43 +32 +13
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 637 305 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 1.10% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.21% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 210 202
10th Percentile £363 £325 £376
25th Percentile £463 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £675
90th Percentile £733 £752 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 7 3
10th Percentile £66.25 £28.72 £51.25
25th Percentile £71.00 £30.06 £53.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% +119.05%
75th Percentile £84.00 £81.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £102.20 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% +119.05%

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 38,759 25,103 28,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.80% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,089 16,021 18,628
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,424 1,656
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +8 263 £550 +2.61% 213
South East +7 145 £550 +4.56% 133
North of England +34 128 £550 +3.53% 90
Yorkshire +18 64 £550 +2.33% 31
North West -10 54 £550 +5.75% 45
South West -23 35 £600 +50.00% 62
Midlands -33 29 £525 -14.29% 38
East of England -14 24 £510 +7.37% 35
West Midlands -29 22 £475 -32.14% 24
North East - 10 £375 - 14
East Midlands -11 6 £638 +112.50% 14
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 23 (3.61%) Confluence
2 19 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.35%) Apache
5 12 (1.88%) Jupyter
6 9 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 212 (33.28%) Azure
2 166 (26.06%) AWS
3 72 (11.30%) Entra ID
4 60 (9.42%) GCP
4 60 (9.42%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (8.01%) GitHub
6 31 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 26 (4.08%) SaaS
8 19 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (2.83%) OCI
10 16 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (2.20%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.04%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.04%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (1.73%) Serverless
15 10 (1.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.99%) Network Security
2 39 (6.12%) Firewall
3 22 (3.45%) DNS
4 14 (2.20%) WAN
5 13 (2.04%) MPLS
6 12 (1.88%) BGP
6 12 (1.88%) IPsec
6 12 (1.88%) LAN
6 12 (1.88%) VPN
7 11 (1.73%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.26%) Broadband
9 5 (0.78%) DHCP
10 4 (0.63%) Internet
10 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.63%) MQTT
11 3 (0.47%) Intranet
11 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.47%) NGFW
11 3 (0.47%) SAN
11 3 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.73%) Power BI
2 9 (1.41%) Big Data
2 9 (1.41%) Data Lake
3 7 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.94%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.31%) Trino
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 41 (6.44%) GitLab
2 28 (4.40%) Jenkins
2 28 (4.40%) JIRA
3 12 (1.88%) SonarQube
4 9 (1.41%) Snyk
5 8 (1.26%) Git
6 4 (0.63%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.47%) AdminStudio
7 3 (0.47%) git-flow
7 3 (0.47%) InstallShield
7 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.31%) Flyway
8 2 (0.31%) JUnit
8 2 (0.31%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.31%) Mockito
8 2 (0.31%) MSI
9 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.16%) TruffleHog
General
1 199 (31.24%) Social Skills
2 134 (21.04%) Finance
3 80 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.65%) Aerospace
6 34 (5.34%) Banking
7 23 (3.61%) Legal
8 20 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.26%) Local Government
13 8 (1.26%) Military
14 7 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.94%) Law
15 6 (0.94%) Publishing
16 4 (0.63%) Retail
17 2 (0.31%) Billing
Job Titles
1 96 (15.07%) Analyst
2 77 (12.09%) Lead
3 60 (9.42%) Consultant
4 58 (9.11%) Security Engineer
5 56 (8.79%) Architect
6 50 (7.85%) Senior
7 39 (6.12%) Security Analyst
8 38 (5.97%) Security Consultant
9 36 (5.65%) Security Architect
10 30 (4.71%) Security Manager
11 25 (3.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 23 (3.61%) Security Specialist
12 23 (3.61%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 21 (3.30%) Developer
13 21 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 18 (2.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 17 (2.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
17 16 (2.51%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (1.88%) Loki
3 11 (1.73%) REST
4 7 (1.10%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.10%) RESTful
5 6 (0.94%) Kafka
5 6 (0.94%) LangChain
5 6 (0.94%) PyTorch
5 6 (0.94%) SAP Basis
5 6 (0.94%) scikit-learn
6 5 (0.78%) LDAP
6 5 (0.78%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.63%) .NET
7 4 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (0.63%) gRPC
7 4 (0.63%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.63%) OAuth
7 4 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (0.63%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (0.63%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 109 (17.11%) Security Posture
2 54 (8.48%) Operational Technology
3 48 (7.54%) Cloud Native
3 48 (7.54%) Cyber Threat
4 43 (6.75%) Onboarding
5 37 (5.81%) Management Information System
6 32 (5.02%) Security Operations Centre
7 24 (3.77%) Cloud Security Posture
8 20 (3.14%) Cyber Defence
9 19 (2.98%) Virtual Team
10 17 (2.67%) Product Ownership
11 15 (2.35%) CMDB
12 14 (2.20%) SCADA
13 12 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.73%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.41%) Public Cloud
17 8 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
17 8 (1.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 85 (13.34%) Windows
2 83 (13.03%) Linux
3 22 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.98%) Unix
6 13 (2.04%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.94%) AIX
8 5 (0.78%) HPUX
8 5 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.78%) Solaris
8 5 (0.78%) SUSE
8 5 (0.78%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.63%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.31%) Android
10 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (48.82%) Cybersecurity
2 177 (27.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 160 (25.12%) Incident Response
4 151 (23.70%) CI/CD
5 143 (22.45%) Cloud Security
6 141 (22.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 127 (19.94%) Security Operations
8 125 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 122 (19.15%) Risk Management
9 122 (19.15%) SIEM
10 105 (16.48%) DevSecOps
11 93 (14.60%) Security Architecture
11 93 (14.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 93 (14.60%) Threat Modelling
12 88 (13.81%) DevOps
13 82 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
14 81 (12.72%) Roadmaps
15 71 (11.15%) Identity Access Management
16 67 (10.52%) Information Security
17 65 (10.20%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 107 (16.80%) Python
2 74 (11.62%) PowerShell
3 40 (6.28%) Bash
4 24 (3.77%) Bicep
5 21 (3.30%) SQL
6 11 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.26%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.10%) Java
10 4 (0.63%) Go
10 4 (0.63%) Korn
10 4 (0.63%) Rust
11 3 (0.47%) C#
11 3 (0.47%) Perl
12 2 (0.31%) PromQL
12 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 221 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 153 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 119 (18.68%) CISSP
4 78 (12.24%) CISM
5 58 (9.11%) Degree
6 55 (8.63%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (7.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 47 (7.38%) DV Cleared
8 32 (5.02%) CompTIA Security+
9 27 (4.24%) CCSP
10 20 (3.14%) AWS Certification
11 16 (2.51%) Azure Certification
12 15 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (2.04%) CEH
13 13 (2.04%) CRISC
13 13 (2.04%) GIAC
13 13 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (2.04%) PMP
14 12 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (1.73%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (20.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 120 (18.84%) NIST
3 53 (8.32%) GDPR
4 48 (7.54%) NCSC
5 46 (7.22%) GRC
6 40 (6.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (3.45%) SLA
8 21 (3.30%) NIST 800
9 17 (2.67%) QA
10 16 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (2.20%) PCI DSS
12 10 (1.57%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.41%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.26%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.94%) Data Quality
16 5 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.78%) Def Stans
16 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 4 (0.63%) COBIT
17 4 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 61 (9.58%) Docker
2 59 (9.26%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.47%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.31%) HDFS
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 86 (13.50%) Terraform
2 80 (12.56%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.12%) Ansible
4 29 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (4.40%) Grafana
6 16 (2.51%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.35%) Nessus
7 15 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.20%) Argo
8 14 (2.20%) SCCM
9 9 (1.41%) Puppet
10 5 (0.78%) vRealize
11 4 (0.63%) CASB
11 4 (0.63%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.63%) OPNET
11 4 (0.63%) Podman
11 4 (0.63%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.63%) QRadar
12 2 (0.31%) Cilium
12 2 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 149 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.26%) Tenable
3 52 (8.16%) Qualys
4 44 (6.91%) Splunk
5 39 (6.12%) ServiceNow
6 31 (4.87%) Oracle
7 25 (3.92%) CrowdStrike
8 20 (3.14%) Google
8 20 (3.14%) Trend Micro
9 19 (2.98%) Rapid7
10 16 (2.51%) VMware
11 14 (2.20%) Okta
12 13 (2.04%) Tanium
13 12 (1.88%) SAP
14 11 (1.73%) Databricks
14 11 (1.73%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.73%) Remedy
15 10 (1.57%) IBM
16 9 (1.41%) CyberArk
17 8 (1.26%) Clearswift