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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 264 285
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 421 225 292
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.93% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.02% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 150 223
10th Percentile £335 £400 £391
25th Percentile £424 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £675
90th Percentile £727 £775 £774
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 1 1
10th Percentile £41.94 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £45.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% -16.15% -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £84.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.70% -16.15% -

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 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 £615 £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 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +2 158 £550 -4.35% 46
North of England +26 116 £506 +12.37% 31
Yorkshire +8 70 £481 - 10
South East -61 62 £509 -3.46% 31
North West +3 46 £566 +41.56% 14
Midlands -43 33 £500 -20.00% 9
South West -12 28 £519 +22.12% 15
West Midlands -39 26 £469 -29.25% 8
East of England -29 10 £480 -38.06% 10
East Midlands -31 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 23 (5.46%) Confluence
2 8 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 142 (33.73%) Azure
2 112 (26.60%) AWS
3 46 (10.93%) Entra ID
4 40 (9.50%) GCP
5 36 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (5.70%) SaaS
7 18 (4.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (2.61%) GitHub
9 11 (2.61%) Serverless
10 10 (2.38%) OpenShift
11 9 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.14%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.43%) IaaS
13 6 (1.43%) PaaS
14 5 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.19%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 55 (13.06%) Firewall
2 43 (10.21%) Network Security
3 22 (5.23%) DNS
4 15 (3.56%) VPN
5 12 (2.85%) DHCP
6 10 (2.38%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.90%) Wireless
8 6 (1.43%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.19%) WAN
10 4 (0.95%) Internet
10 4 (0.95%) SSL
11 3 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.71%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.71%) LAN
11 3 (0.71%) SAN
12 2 (0.48%) NAS
12 2 (0.48%) NGFW
12 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.14%) Power BI
2 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.24%) Big Data
5 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (7.84%) JIRA
2 12 (2.85%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.14%) Snyk
4 7 (1.66%) GitLab
5 3 (0.71%) Git
5 3 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.48%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.24%) git-flow
7 1 (0.24%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 119 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.34%) Finance
3 67 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.41%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (4.28%) Aerospace
7 15 (3.56%) Publishing
8 14 (3.33%) Banking
9 13 (3.09%) Legal
10 9 (2.14%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.19%) Local Government
11 5 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.19%) Retail
12 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.95%) Military
13 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 62 (14.73%) Security Engineer
2 54 (12.83%) Analyst
3 50 (11.88%) Architect
4 45 (10.69%) Senior
5 37 (8.79%) Lead
6 36 (8.55%) Security Architect
7 22 (5.23%) Security Analyst
7 22 (5.23%) Security Manager
8 21 (4.99%) Consultant
9 18 (4.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 17 (4.04%) Administrator
10 17 (4.04%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.09%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.09%) Senior Security Engineer
11 13 (3.09%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
12 12 (2.85%) Security Consultant
12 12 (2.85%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 11 (2.61%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 11 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.80%) SAP Basis
2 10 (2.38%) OAuth
3 9 (2.14%) SAML
4 6 (1.43%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.43%) LDAP
5 5 (1.19%) JWT
6 4 (0.95%) .NET
6 4 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.95%) Kafka
6 4 (0.95%) LangChain
6 4 (0.95%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.95%) REST
6 4 (0.95%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.95%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.71%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.71%) Middleware
7 3 (0.71%) Node.js
7 3 (0.71%) OpenID
8 2 (0.48%) ADO
8 2 (0.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.11%) Security Posture
2 37 (8.79%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.65%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.46%) Operational Technology
5 20 (4.75%) Management Information System
6 19 (4.51%) Cyber Threat
7 17 (4.04%) Taxonomies
8 14 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
8 14 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
8 14 (3.33%) PKI
8 14 (3.33%) Virtual Team
9 13 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (2.38%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.38%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.66%) IoT
13 6 (1.43%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.03%) Windows
2 37 (8.79%) Linux
3 18 (4.28%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.66%) Unix
6 4 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Rocky
7 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.24%) Android
8 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (44.42%) Cybersecurity
2 115 (27.32%) Incident Response
3 87 (20.67%) Cloud Security
4 76 (18.05%) SIEM
5 75 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (17.10%) CI/CD
6 72 (17.10%) Security Operations
7 66 (15.68%) Threat Modelling
8 64 (15.20%) Risk Management
9 62 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 54 (12.83%) Security Architecture
11 53 (12.59%) DevSecOps
12 52 (12.35%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 50 (11.88%) Roadmaps
14 49 (11.64%) Identity Access Management
14 49 (11.64%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
15 46 (10.93%) Computer Science
16 45 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (10.45%) Agile
18 43 (10.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (12.83%) Python
2 30 (7.13%) PowerShell
3 22 (5.23%) Bash
4 12 (2.85%) SQL
5 7 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.43%) Java
7 5 (1.19%) Bicep
8 4 (0.95%) Korn
9 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) C#
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.24%) Rust
11 1 (0.24%) Scala
11 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 98 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 77 (18.29%) CISSP
4 59 (14.01%) Degree
5 48 (11.40%) CISM
6 26 (6.18%) CompTIA Security+
7 16 (3.80%) CEH
8 15 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 15 (3.56%) Master's Degree
9 14 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.33%) GIAC
10 13 (3.09%) CREST Certified
11 12 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.85%) PMP
12 11 (2.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (2.61%) AWS Certification
12 11 (2.61%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.61%) CCSP
12 11 (2.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (19.95%) NIST
2 69 (16.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.46%) NCSC
4 22 (5.23%) GRC
5 21 (4.99%) GDPR
6 15 (3.56%) NIST 800
6 15 (3.56%) SLA
7 12 (2.85%) PCI DSS
8 10 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (2.38%) SOC 2
9 9 (2.14%) QA
10 6 (1.43%) COBIT
11 5 (1.19%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.71%) GxP
14 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.48%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.94%) Docker
3 10 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.48%) GPFS
6 2 (0.48%) Lustre
6 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.65%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (5.94%) Terraform
4 21 (4.99%) Nessus
5 15 (3.56%) Ansible
6 11 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.38%) SCCM
8 7 (1.66%) CASB
9 5 (1.19%) Grafana
9 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.95%) QRadar
11 3 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.71%) Norton AntiVirus
11 3 (0.71%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.71%) Puppet
12 2 (0.48%) Podman
12 2 (0.48%) SCOM
12 2 (0.48%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.48%) SELinux
12 2 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 51 (12.11%) Tenable
3 43 (10.21%) Splunk
4 34 (8.08%) Qualys
5 24 (5.70%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.46%) Okta
6 23 (5.46%) SAP
7 19 (4.51%) CyberArk
8 16 (3.80%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.61%) Google
10 10 (2.38%) Cisco
11 9 (2.14%) Centrify
11 9 (2.14%) Remedy
11 9 (2.14%) VMware
12 8 (1.90%) BiZZdesign
12 8 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.90%) IBM
13 6 (1.43%) Databricks
13 6 (1.43%) ForeScout
14 5 (1.19%) Zscaler