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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 241 276
Rank change year-on-year +35 +35 +12
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 542 265 310
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 1.06% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.16% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 180 219
10th Percentile £357 £313 £388
25th Percentile £471 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £767
UK median daily rate £538 £527 £540
% change year-on-year +1.99% -2.41% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 1
10th Percentile £48.84 £28.12 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £29.02 £56.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £43.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.56% -25.23% +119.05%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.05 £88.98 -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £43.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +89.56% -25.23% +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 36,902 22,811 32,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 91.37% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,326 14,743 20,763
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,306 1,092 2,399
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.25 £61.47
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.88 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 22 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 22 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 22 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 0 215 £550 -0.50% 81
North of England +42 138 £533 -11.25% 56
South East -19 101 £525 - 87
Yorkshire +15 72 £548 - 17
North West +9 58 £540 +8.00% 23
South West -18 34 £554 +38.50% 52
Midlands -33 32 £525 -16.00% 31
West Midlands -41 26 £438 -33.96% 19
North East -32 8 £375 -45.45% 16
East of England -29 7 £513 +7.89% 30
East Midlands -14 5 £638 +112.50% 12
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 16 (2.95%) Apache Spark
1 16 (2.95%) Confluence
2 13 (2.40%) Apache
2 13 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.21%) Jupyter
4 9 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 161 (29.70%) Azure
2 134 (24.72%) AWS
3 59 (10.89%) Entra ID
4 50 (9.23%) GCP
4 50 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (4.98%) SaaS
6 24 (4.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 20 (3.69%) GitHub
8 15 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.40%) OpenShift
9 13 (2.40%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.66%) Serverless
12 8 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.48%) IaaS
12 8 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (1.29%) PaaS
14 6 (1.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 60 (11.07%) Network Security
2 47 (8.67%) Firewall
3 21 (3.87%) DNS
4 13 (2.40%) DHCP
5 10 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.66%) VPN
7 8 (1.48%) WAN
8 7 (1.29%) BGP
8 7 (1.29%) IPsec
8 7 (1.29%) LAN
8 7 (1.29%) MPLS
9 6 (1.11%) HTTPS
9 6 (1.11%) Wireless
10 5 (0.92%) Internet
10 5 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.74%) MQTT
11 4 (0.74%) NGFW
11 4 (0.74%) SSL
12 2 (0.37%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.03%) Power BI
2 6 (1.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.74%) Big Data
5 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.18%) Redis
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (5.35%) GitLab
1 29 (5.35%) JIRA
2 18 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.03%) SonarQube
4 8 (1.48%) Git
4 8 (1.48%) Snyk
5 3 (0.55%) AdminStudio
5 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.55%) git-flow
5 3 (0.55%) InstallShield
5 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.37%) Flyway
6 2 (0.37%) JUnit
6 2 (0.37%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.37%) Mockito
7 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.18%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.18%) TruffleHog
General
1 155 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 117 (21.59%) Finance
3 81 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.54%) Banking
6 24 (4.43%) Legal
7 20 (3.69%) Aerospace
7 20 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.95%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.21%) Publishing
11 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.48%) Local Government
12 7 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.92%) Law
15 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.37%) Arabic Language
16 2 (0.37%) Military
17 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (13.10%) Analyst
2 56 (10.33%) Security Engineer
3 55 (10.15%) Architect
4 53 (9.78%) Consultant
5 51 (9.41%) Lead
6 42 (7.75%) Senior
7 38 (7.01%) Security Architect
8 31 (5.72%) Security Consultant
9 26 (4.80%) Security Analyst
10 23 (4.24%) Security Manager
11 22 (4.06%) Security Specialist
12 19 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.32%) Business Analyst
14 16 (2.95%) Developer
14 16 (2.95%) Vulnerability Analyst
15 15 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 15 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 14 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 14 (2.58%) Senior Security Engineer
16 14 (2.58%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (2.21%) SAP Basis
3 7 (1.29%) RESTful
4 6 (1.11%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.11%) Kafka
4 6 (1.11%) LangChain
4 6 (1.11%) LDAP
4 6 (1.11%) PyTorch
4 6 (1.11%) scikit-learn
5 5 (0.92%) REST
6 4 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.74%) gRPC
6 4 (0.74%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.74%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (0.55%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.55%) OAuth
7 3 (0.55%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.55%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.55%) SLSA
7 3 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.68%) Security Posture
2 46 (8.49%) Operational Technology
3 41 (7.56%) Cloud Native
4 37 (6.83%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.90%) Management Information System
6 22 (4.06%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
7 19 (3.51%) Virtual Team
8 18 (3.32%) Cyber Defence
9 15 (2.77%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.21%) Cloud Security Posture
10 12 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.21%) Taxonomies
11 11 (2.03%) PKI
11 11 (2.03%) SCADA
12 9 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.66%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.29%) CSOC
14 7 (1.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 78 (14.39%) Windows
2 77 (14.21%) Linux
3 25 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (3.69%) Unix
5 8 (1.48%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.11%) AIX
8 5 (0.92%) HPUX
8 5 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.92%) Solaris
8 5 (0.92%) SUSE
9 4 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Android
11 1 (0.18%) CentOS
11 1 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.18%) Rocky
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (44.46%) Cybersecurity
2 121 (22.32%) Incident Response
3 119 (21.96%) CI/CD
4 107 (19.74%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 106 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 104 (19.19%) Cloud Security
6 104 (19.19%) SIEM
7 102 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 99 (18.27%) Risk Management
9 88 (16.24%) Security Architecture
9 88 (16.24%) Security Operations
9 88 (16.24%) Threat Modelling
10 75 (13.84%) DevOps
11 74 (13.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 71 (13.10%) Roadmaps
13 66 (12.18%) DevSecOps
14 55 (10.15%) Application Security
15 54 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (8.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (14.58%) Python
2 46 (8.49%) PowerShell
3 22 (4.06%) Bash
4 12 (2.21%) SQL
5 10 (1.85%) Bicep
6 8 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.48%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.29%) Java
8 6 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.74%) Korn
9 4 (0.74%) Rust
10 3 (0.55%) Perl
11 2 (0.37%) Go
11 2 (0.37%) PromQL
11 2 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 176 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 111 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 108 (19.93%) CISSP
4 65 (11.99%) CISM
4 65 (11.99%) Degree
5 43 (7.93%) DV Cleared
6 37 (6.83%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (6.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 28 (5.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 26 (4.80%) CCSP
10 20 (3.69%) GIAC
11 16 (2.95%) CRISC
12 15 (2.77%) AWS Certification
13 12 (2.21%) CISA
14 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (1.85%) PMP
16 9 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (1.66%) CEH
16 9 (1.66%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (18.08%) NIST
2 97 (17.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (7.56%) GRC
4 35 (6.46%) NCSC
5 31 (5.72%) GDPR
6 27 (4.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (3.87%) SLA
8 14 (2.58%) NIST 800
8 14 (2.58%) SOC 2
9 13 (2.40%) PCI DSS
10 11 (2.03%) ISO 31000
10 11 (2.03%) QA
11 8 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (1.11%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 3 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 47 (8.67%) Active Directory
2 42 (7.75%) Docker
3 25 (4.61%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) GPFS
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Lustre
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (10.70%) Kubernetes
2 52 (9.59%) Terraform
3 27 (4.98%) Ansible
4 21 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (3.87%) Nessus
5 20 (3.69%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (2.77%) Grafana
6 15 (2.77%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.03%) SCCM
8 8 (1.48%) Puppet
9 5 (0.92%) CASB
9 5 (0.92%) vRealize
10 4 (0.74%) Podman
11 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.55%) OpenVAS
12 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.37%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.37%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.37%) SELinux
12 2 (0.37%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 98 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.15%) Tenable
3 48 (8.86%) Qualys
4 42 (7.75%) Splunk
5 33 (6.09%) ServiceNow
6 21 (3.87%) Okta
6 21 (3.87%) Trend Micro
7 19 (3.51%) Rapid7
8 18 (3.32%) CrowdStrike
8 18 (3.32%) SAP
9 16 (2.95%) Oracle
10 15 (2.77%) Google
11 13 (2.40%) VMware
12 12 (2.21%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.21%) Remedy
13 10 (1.85%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.66%) IBM
14 9 (1.66%) Tanium
15 8 (1.48%) Cisco
15 8 (1.48%) Clearswift