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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 306 274
Rank change year-on-year +45 -32 +59
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 349 190 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.82% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 115 233
10th Percentile £352 £400 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £681 £675
90th Percentile £688 £783 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £45.75 £42.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +11.22% -24.90%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.15 - £67.75
UK median hourly rate £55.75 £54.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +2.29% +11.22% -24.90%

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 30,243 23,214 32,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.45% 89.92% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,352 14,394 21,863
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,888 728 2,002
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.32
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £61.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.33 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -

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 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +28 143 £550 -9.28% 53
North of England +17 88 £500 - 34
Yorkshire +3 57 £488 - 13
South East -31 47 £475 -9.52% 49
North West -6 31 £520 +15.56% 17
South West -12 23 £516 +14.61% 7
Midlands -42 23 £500 -24.53% 16
West Midlands -36 19 £500 -24.53% 13
East of England -21 14 £480 -14.67% 10
East Midlands -22 4 £419 - 3
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 26 (7.45%) Confluence
2 8 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) nginx
4 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 119 (34.10%) Azure
2 101 (28.94%) AWS
3 38 (10.89%) GCP
4 37 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (10.32%) Entra ID
6 18 (5.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (4.87%) SaaS
8 16 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.15%) Serverless
10 7 (2.01%) GitHub
10 7 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.72%) IaaS
11 6 (1.72%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.43%) PaaS
13 4 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 62 (17.77%) Firewall
2 40 (11.46%) Network Security
3 18 (5.16%) DNS
4 16 (4.58%) VPN
5 13 (3.72%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.44%) DHCP
7 9 (2.58%) Wireless
8 6 (1.72%) HTTPS
8 6 (1.72%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.72%) SSL
8 6 (1.72%) WAN
9 5 (1.43%) LAN
10 3 (0.86%) Internet
10 3 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.86%) SAN
11 2 (0.57%) NAS
11 2 (0.57%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.57%) VLAN
11 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.72%) Power BI
2 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.29%) DB2
4 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (9.17%) JIRA
2 7 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.15%) Snyk
4 3 (0.86%) GitLab
5 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.57%) Git
5 2 (0.57%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
General
1 98 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.48%) Finance
3 58 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.01%) Legal
7 13 (3.72%) Banking
8 9 (2.58%) Publishing
9 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.43%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.15%) Military
11 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.15%) Retail
12 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Local Government
13 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (14.33%) Analyst
2 49 (14.04%) Architect
3 45 (12.89%) Security Engineer
4 41 (11.75%) Senior
5 40 (11.46%) Security Architect
6 25 (7.16%) Security Analyst
7 20 (5.73%) Lead
8 19 (5.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 18 (5.16%) Consultant
10 16 (4.58%) Administrator
11 14 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.01%) Security Manager
12 13 (3.72%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.87%) Security Officer
14 10 (2.87%) Tester
15 9 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 9 (2.58%) Security Consultant
15 9 (2.58%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.87%) OAuth
2 16 (4.58%) SAML
3 10 (2.87%) SAP Basis
4 6 (1.72%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.72%) OpenID
5 5 (1.43%) .NET
5 5 (1.43%) JWT
5 5 (1.43%) LDAP
6 4 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.86%) Kafka
7 3 (0.86%) Middleware
7 3 (0.86%) REST
7 3 (0.86%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.57%) ADO
8 2 (0.57%) CSS
8 2 (0.57%) HTML
8 2 (0.57%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.57%) SOAP
8 2 (0.57%) Web Services
8 2 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.89%) Security Posture
2 27 (7.74%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.16%) Cloud Native
4 24 (6.88%) Management Information System
5 21 (6.02%) Cyber Threat
6 14 (4.01%) Security Operations Centre
7 13 (3.72%) Cyber Defence
7 13 (3.72%) Operational Technology
8 11 (3.15%) PKI
8 11 (3.15%) Taxonomies
9 10 (2.87%) Cloud Security Posture
10 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (2.01%) IoT
12 5 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.15%) BYOD
13 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.15%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.86%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.19%) Windows
2 37 (10.60%) Linux
3 23 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.87%) Mac OS
4 10 (2.87%) Unix
4 10 (2.87%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.57%) Rocky
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) CentOS
8 1 (0.29%) VMS
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (45.56%) Cybersecurity
2 123 (35.24%) Incident Response
3 83 (23.78%) Security Operations
4 81 (23.21%) Cloud Security
5 74 (21.20%) SIEM
6 60 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (16.62%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 53 (15.19%) Risk Management
9 52 (14.90%) Threat Intelligence
10 50 (14.33%) CI/CD
11 47 (13.47%) Identity Access Management
12 45 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (12.61%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 42 (12.03%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 41 (11.75%) DevSecOps
16 38 (10.89%) Agile
17 37 (10.60%) Threat Modelling
17 37 (10.60%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 35 (10.03%) Penetration Testing
19 33 (9.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (12.03%) Python
2 26 (7.45%) PowerShell
3 23 (6.59%) Bash
4 7 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.72%) SQL
6 5 (1.43%) Java
7 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.57%) Bicep
8 2 (0.57%) Go
9 1 (0.29%) Rust
9 1 (0.29%) Scala
9 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 102 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 89 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 75 (21.49%) CISSP
4 49 (14.04%) Degree
5 44 (12.61%) CISM
6 25 (7.16%) CompTIA Security+
7 17 (4.87%) Master's Degree
8 16 (4.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (4.30%) CEH
10 14 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (3.72%) GIAC
12 12 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (3.44%) DV Cleared
13 11 (3.15%) Azure Certification
13 11 (3.15%) CREST Certified
14 10 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (2.87%) PhD
15 9 (2.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (2.58%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (18.62%) NIST
2 61 (17.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.44%) GDPR
3 19 (5.44%) NCSC
4 15 (4.30%) GRC
4 15 (4.30%) PCI DSS
5 12 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.58%) NIST 800
7 7 (2.01%) SLA
8 6 (1.72%) PMO
8 6 (1.72%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.43%) COBIT
10 3 (0.86%) GxP
10 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.57%) ISO 31000
11 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 23 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.87%) Docker
3 6 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) GPFS
5 2 (0.57%) Lustre
5 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (6.02%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.73%) SCCM
3 19 (5.44%) Nessus
4 17 (4.87%) Terraform
5 13 (3.72%) Ansible
6 12 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.58%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.29%) Norton AntiVirus
9 7 (2.01%) CASB
10 4 (1.15%) WSUS
11 3 (0.86%) Grafana
11 3 (0.86%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.86%) QRadar
12 2 (0.57%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.57%) Podman
12 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.57%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.57%) SELinux
12 2 (0.57%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 77 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.60%) Tenable
3 32 (9.17%) Splunk
4 26 (7.45%) Qualys
5 21 (6.02%) ServiceNow
6 19 (5.44%) CyberArk
7 15 (4.30%) Rapid7
8 13 (3.72%) Okta
9 12 (3.44%) SAP
10 10 (2.87%) BiZZdesign
10 10 (2.87%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (2.58%) Centrify
11 9 (2.58%) Cisco
11 9 (2.58%) VMware
12 8 (2.29%) McAfee
12 8 (2.29%) Symantec
13 7 (2.01%) Apple
13 7 (2.01%) Remedy
14 6 (1.72%) ForeScout
14 6 (1.72%) Google