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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 254 283
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 +33
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 432 235 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.97% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.06% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 160 220
10th Percentile £335 £400 £387
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £675
90th Percentile £711 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 1 0
10th Percentile £44.05 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 -
90th Percentile £84.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £54.50 -
% change year-on-year +49.54% - -

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 33,535 22,134 32,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.78% 90.89% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,490 14,584 21,356
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,083 869 2,177
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.72 £19.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -1.71% -11.83%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.65 £70.43
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.17%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -11 159 £550 -5.17% 46
North of England +27 114 £513 +2.50% 31
Yorkshire +9 69 £500 - 10
South East -52 65 £513 -4.83% 31
North West +4 45 £566 +25.83% 14
Midlands -37 37 £500 -13.04% 9
South West -16 29 £520 +22.24% 15
West Midlands -46 29 £500 -20.00% 8
East of England -24 10 £480 -31.43% 10
East Midlands -24 7 £638 +112.50% 1
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 21 (4.86%) Confluence
2 9 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 149 (34.49%) Azure
2 114 (26.39%) AWS
3 46 (10.65%) Entra ID
4 40 (9.26%) GCP
5 38 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.25%) SaaS
7 18 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (3.01%) GitHub
8 13 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.55%) Serverless
11 10 (2.31%) OpenShift
11 10 (2.31%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.39%) IaaS
14 6 (1.39%) PaaS
15 5 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 54 (12.50%) Firewall
2 42 (9.72%) Network Security
3 23 (5.32%) DNS
4 15 (3.47%) VPN
5 13 (3.01%) DHCP
6 10 (2.31%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.39%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.39%) Wireless
8 5 (1.16%) WAN
9 4 (0.93%) Internet
9 4 (0.93%) SSL
10 3 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.69%) LAN
10 3 (0.69%) SAN
11 2 (0.46%) NAS
11 2 (0.46%) NGFW
11 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.23%) DKIM
12 1 (0.23%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.31%) Power BI
2 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.69%) Big Data
3 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.18%) JIRA
2 12 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.08%) Snyk
4 7 (1.62%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) Git
5 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.46%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.46%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.23%) git-flow
7 1 (0.23%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 123 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 73 (16.90%) Finance
3 71 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.48%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.40%) Aerospace
6 19 (4.40%) Legal
7 15 (3.47%) Banking
7 15 (3.47%) Publishing
8 7 (1.62%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.16%) Local Government
9 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.16%) Retail
10 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.93%) Military
11 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 64 (14.81%) Security Engineer
2 59 (13.66%) Analyst
3 50 (11.57%) Architect
4 44 (10.19%) Senior
5 36 (8.33%) Lead
6 35 (8.10%) Security Architect
7 23 (5.32%) Security Analyst
8 22 (5.09%) Security Manager
9 21 (4.86%) Consultant
10 20 (4.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 18 (4.17%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.94%) Administrator
13 13 (3.01%) Project Manager
13 13 (3.01%) Security Consultant
13 13 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (3.01%) Senior Security Engineer
13 13 (3.01%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
14 12 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (2.78%) Vulnerability Analyst
15 11 (2.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.70%) SAP Basis
2 8 (1.85%) OAuth
3 7 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.62%) SAML
4 6 (1.39%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.39%) LDAP
5 5 (1.16%) JWT
6 4 (0.93%) .NET
6 4 (0.93%) ADO
6 4 (0.93%) Kafka
6 4 (0.93%) LangChain
6 4 (0.93%) Middleware
6 4 (0.93%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.93%) REST
6 4 (0.93%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.93%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.69%) Node.js
7 3 (0.69%) OpenID
7 3 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.27%) Security Posture
2 34 (7.87%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.48%) Onboarding
4 24 (5.56%) Operational Technology
5 22 (5.09%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
7 17 (3.94%) Taxonomies
8 15 (3.47%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (3.47%) PKI
8 15 (3.47%) Virtual Team
9 14 (3.24%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (3.01%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (2.55%) Product Ownership
12 10 (2.31%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.62%) IoT
14 6 (1.39%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.26%) Linux
1 40 (9.26%) Windows
2 18 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.62%) Unix
5 4 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.46%) Rocky
6 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) CentOS
7 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (43.98%) Cybersecurity
2 107 (24.77%) Incident Response
3 89 (20.60%) Cloud Security
4 82 (18.98%) SIEM
5 77 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 74 (17.13%) CI/CD
7 70 (16.20%) Threat Modelling
8 67 (15.51%) Security Operations
9 66 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 65 (15.05%) Risk Management
11 58 (13.43%) Security Architecture
12 55 (12.73%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 52 (12.04%) DevSecOps
14 50 (11.57%) Roadmaps
15 46 (10.65%) Computer Science
15 46 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
16 45 (10.42%) Agile
16 45 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
16 45 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 44 (10.19%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 58 (13.43%) Python
2 30 (6.94%) PowerShell
3 22 (5.09%) Bash
4 12 (2.78%) SQL
5 8 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.62%) Java
7 5 (1.16%) Bicep
8 4 (0.93%) Korn
9 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.46%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.23%) C#
11 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.23%) Rust
11 1 (0.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 132 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 97 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 74 (17.13%) CISSP
4 59 (13.66%) Degree
5 48 (11.11%) CISM
6 25 (5.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 18 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.70%) CEH
8 16 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.24%) GIAC
10 13 (3.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (2.78%) CCSP
11 12 (2.78%) CREST Certified
11 12 (2.78%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.78%) PMP
12 11 (2.55%) AWS Certification
12 11 (2.55%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (19.68%) NIST
2 71 (16.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (5.79%) GRC
4 22 (5.09%) GDPR
4 22 (5.09%) NCSC
5 17 (3.94%) NIST 800
6 15 (3.47%) SLA
7 12 (2.78%) PCI DSS
8 10 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (2.31%) SOC 2
9 9 (2.08%) QA
10 5 (1.16%) COBIT
10 5 (1.16%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.46%) IFRS
13 2 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.32%) Docker
3 12 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.46%) GPFS
6 2 (0.46%) Lustre
6 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.46%) vSphere
7 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.02%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (5.79%) Terraform
4 20 (4.63%) Nessus
5 15 (3.47%) Ansible
6 11 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.31%) SCCM
8 7 (1.62%) CASB
9 5 (1.16%) Grafana
9 5 (1.16%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.93%) QRadar
11 3 (0.69%) Norton AntiVirus
11 3 (0.69%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.69%) Puppet
11 3 (0.69%) SELinux
12 2 (0.46%) Podman
12 2 (0.46%) SCOM
12 2 (0.46%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.46%) WSUS
13 1 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 73 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.81%) Tenable
3 44 (10.19%) Splunk
4 35 (8.10%) Qualys
5 26 (6.02%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.32%) Okta
6 23 (5.32%) SAP
7 16 (3.70%) Rapid7
8 14 (3.24%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.55%) Google
10 10 (2.31%) Cisco
10 10 (2.31%) Remedy
11 9 (2.08%) VMware
12 8 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.85%) Databricks
12 8 (1.85%) IBM
13 6 (1.39%) ForeScout
14 5 (1.16%) BiZZdesign
14 5 (1.16%) Centrify
14 5 (1.16%) Oracle