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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 256 267
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +104
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 306 286 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 0.93% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.07% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 192 274
10th Percentile £358 £401 £413
25th Percentile £449 £496 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £780 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £555 £600
% change year-on-year -5.41% -7.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 21
10th Percentile £29.51 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £33.43 £53.13 £42.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £57.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +17.35% -24.90%
75th Percentile £62.75 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £57.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.06% +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 27,183 26,639 35,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.25% 86.82% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,253 16,245 24,094
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,480
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £47.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.94 £74.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +14 144 £568 -1.30% 101
North of England -1 56 £501 -3.15% 32
South East -11 40 £488 -2.50% 66
Yorkshire -8 31 £519 -20.23% 12
North West -13 25 £501 -3.27% 19
East of England -9 23 £450 +5.88% 11
South West -4 21 £450 -30.77% 20
Midlands -38 13 £500 -9.09% 24
West Midlands -31 9 £525 +5.00% 22
East Midlands -18 4 £419 -48.93% 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 23 (7.52%) Confluence
2 8 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) 1Password
3 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.33%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 108 (35.29%) Azure
2 81 (26.47%) AWS
3 38 (12.42%) GCP
4 30 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (8.17%) Entra ID
6 20 (6.54%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.29%) IaaS
8 7 (2.29%) SaaS
9 6 (1.96%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.63%) PaaS
11 4 (1.31%) Azure Storage
11 4 (1.31%) GitHub
11 4 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.31%) Serverless
12 3 (0.98%) Akamai
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 68 (22.22%) Firewall
2 48 (15.69%) Network Security
3 16 (5.23%) DNS
4 14 (4.58%) VPN
5 12 (3.92%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.94%) SSL
7 8 (2.61%) LAN
7 8 (2.61%) WAN
8 6 (1.96%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.96%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.96%) Wireless
9 5 (1.63%) HTTP
10 4 (1.31%) DHCP
10 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.98%) Internet
11 3 (0.98%) SAN
11 3 (0.98%) SMTP
12 2 (0.65%) MPLS
12 2 (0.65%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.96%) Power BI
2 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.65%) Tableau
3 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.33%) DB2
3 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.33%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (11.11%) JIRA
2 6 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.65%) GitLab
3 2 (0.65%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Snyk
General
1 83 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 73 (23.86%) Finance
3 41 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.54%) Banking
6 14 (4.58%) Legal
7 11 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.29%) Retail
10 6 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.98%) Military
13 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 56 (18.30%) Analyst
2 52 (16.99%) Architect
3 44 (14.38%) Security Architect
4 37 (12.09%) Security Engineer
5 36 (11.76%) Senior
6 33 (10.78%) Security Analyst
7 25 (8.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 23 (7.52%) Consultant
8 23 (7.52%) Lead
9 14 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (3.27%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.27%) Security Manager
10 10 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 9 (2.94%) Tester
12 8 (2.61%) Security Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.61%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 7 (2.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 7 (2.29%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.56%) OAuth
2 16 (5.23%) SAML
3 6 (1.96%) OpenID
4 5 (1.63%) JWT
4 5 (1.63%) LDAP
5 4 (1.31%) .NET
6 2 (0.65%) EDI
6 2 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.65%) Middleware
6 2 (0.65%) Node.js
6 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.65%) React
6 2 (0.65%) Web Services
7 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.33%) Fluent Bit
7 1 (0.33%) Loki
7 1 (0.33%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.33%) REST
7 1 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.36%) Security Posture
2 28 (9.15%) Management Information System
3 24 (7.84%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (6.21%) Cloud Native
5 16 (5.23%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (4.90%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.59%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.27%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.61%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.29%) Cyber Defence
10 7 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.31%) BYOD
11 4 (1.31%) CSOC
11 4 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.31%) PKI
12 3 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.61%) Windows
2 29 (9.48%) Linux
3 22 (7.19%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.92%) Mac OS
4 12 (3.92%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.94%) Unix
6 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.33%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (52.29%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (36.60%) Incident Response
3 92 (30.07%) Security Operations
4 88 (28.76%) Cloud Security
5 83 (27.12%) SIEM
6 52 (16.99%) Identity Access Management
7 50 (16.34%) Information Security
7 50 (16.34%) Threat Intelligence
8 49 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (15.69%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 43 (14.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 41 (13.40%) Threat Modelling
12 39 (12.75%) CI/CD
12 39 (12.75%) Penetration Testing
13 38 (12.42%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 38 (12.42%) Risk Management
14 34 (11.11%) DevSecOps
15 33 (10.78%) Application Security
15 33 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (10.13%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.42%) Python
2 31 (10.13%) PowerShell
3 25 (8.17%) Bash
4 8 (2.61%) Java
4 8 (2.61%) SQL
5 7 (2.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.65%) Bicep
8 2 (0.65%) Go
8 2 (0.65%) PHP
9 1 (0.33%) Perl
9 1 (0.33%) Ruby
9 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 83 (27.12%) CISSP
2 75 (24.51%) Security Cleared
3 67 (21.90%) SC Cleared
4 45 (14.71%) CISM
5 42 (13.73%) Degree
6 26 (8.50%) CEH
7 23 (7.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 20 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (4.90%) CCSP
10 15 (4.90%) Master's Degree
11 14 (4.58%) OSCP
11 14 (4.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (4.25%) GIAC
13 12 (3.92%) Azure Certification
13 12 (3.92%) CREST Certified
14 11 (3.59%) GCIH
14 11 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
16 9 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (26.47%) NIST
2 80 (26.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (12.09%) GDPR
4 26 (8.50%) PCI DSS
5 16 (5.23%) NCSC
6 15 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (4.58%) GRC
8 10 (3.27%) NIST 800
9 9 (2.94%) COBIT
9 9 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (2.61%) HIPAA
11 6 (1.96%) SLA
12 5 (1.63%) PSD2
13 4 (1.31%) Accessibility
13 4 (1.31%) PMO
13 4 (1.31%) QA
14 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 26 (8.50%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.23%) Docker
3 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (8.17%) Nessus
2 24 (7.84%) SCCM
3 18 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.61%) Ansible
6 8 (2.61%) CASB
7 7 (2.29%) Norton AntiVirus
7 7 (2.29%) Terraform
7 7 (2.29%) WSUS
8 5 (1.63%) QRadar
9 3 (0.98%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.98%) Grafana
9 3 (0.98%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.65%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.65%) SELinux
10 2 (0.65%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 89 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.05%) Qualys
3 32 (10.46%) Tenable
4 28 (9.15%) Splunk
5 19 (6.21%) Rapid7
5 19 (6.21%) ServiceNow
6 17 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 17 (5.56%) Google
7 16 (5.23%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (5.23%) Palo Alto
8 15 (4.90%) Cisco
9 10 (3.27%) VMware
10 9 (2.94%) BiZZdesign
10 9 (2.94%) McAfee
11 8 (2.61%) Centrify
12 7 (2.29%) Apple
12 7 (2.29%) Remedy
12 7 (2.29%) Symantec
13 5 (1.63%) Tanium
13 5 (1.63%) Zscaler