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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 254 275
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 +86
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 303 289 340
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.93% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.06% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 193 264
10th Percentile £363 £403 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £630 £675 £700
90th Percentile £765 £780 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile £35.12 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £53.13 £42.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.94% +17.35% -24.90%
75th Percentile £63.25 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £101.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -20.94% +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 27,627 27,254 34,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.85% 87.54% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,569 16,646 23,463
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,791 1,000 1,454
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.29 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.24% +25.37%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +11 137 £568 -1.30% 46
North of England -8 56 £501 -3.15% 18
South East -15 44 £520 +2.46% 46
Yorkshire -13 31 £519 -20.23% 10
North West -12 25 £501 -3.27% 7
East of England -10 21 £463 +8.82% 5
South West -2 20 £450 -28.00% 19
Midlands -26 16 £500 -16.67% 15
West Midlands -37 12 £500 -9.09% 13
East Midlands -13 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 (7.59%) Confluence
2 7 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.33%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.33%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (34.65%) Azure
2 84 (27.72%) AWS
3 39 (12.87%) GCP
4 31 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (9.24%) Entra ID
6 20 (6.60%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (4.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.64%) SaaS
9 7 (2.31%) IaaS
10 6 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.98%) Serverless
11 5 (1.65%) PaaS
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Storage
13 3 (0.99%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.99%) GitHub
13 3 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.99%) OCI
14 2 (0.66%) Akamai
14 2 (0.66%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (20.79%) Firewall
2 46 (15.18%) Network Security
3 16 (5.28%) DNS
4 13 (4.29%) VPN
5 12 (3.96%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.64%) SSL
6 8 (2.64%) WAN
7 7 (2.31%) LAN
8 6 (1.98%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.98%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.98%) Wireless
9 5 (1.65%) HTTP
10 4 (1.32%) DHCP
10 4 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.99%) SAN
11 3 (0.99%) SMTP
12 2 (0.66%) Internet
12 2 (0.66%) IPsec
12 2 (0.66%) MPLS
12 2 (0.66%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.98%) Power BI
2 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.66%) 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 32 (10.56%) JIRA
2 5 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.99%) GitLab
4 2 (0.66%) Git
4 2 (0.66%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Snyk
5 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 87 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 73 (24.09%) Finance
3 41 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.61%) Banking
6 15 (4.95%) Legal
7 9 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.64%) Retail
9 5 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Military
10 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (18.48%) Analyst
2 52 (17.16%) Architect
3 43 (14.19%) Security Architect
4 39 (12.87%) Security Engineer
5 38 (12.54%) Senior
6 33 (10.89%) Security Analyst
7 25 (8.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 21 (6.93%) Consultant
9 20 (6.60%) Lead
10 16 (5.28%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (2.97%) Business Analyst
13 9 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 9 (2.97%) Security Manager
13 9 (2.97%) Security Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.97%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
13 9 (2.97%) Senior Security Analyst
13 9 (2.97%) Tester
14 8 (2.64%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.61%) OAuth
2 16 (5.28%) SAML
3 7 (2.31%) .NET
4 6 (1.98%) OpenID
5 5 (1.65%) JWT
5 5 (1.65%) LDAP
6 2 (0.66%) EDI
6 2 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.66%) Middleware
6 2 (0.66%) Node.js
6 2 (0.66%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.66%) React
6 2 (0.66%) REST
6 2 (0.66%) Web Services
7 1 (0.33%) gRPC
7 1 (0.33%) Kafka
7 1 (0.33%) Loki
7 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.85%) Security Posture
2 26 (8.58%) Management Information System
3 24 (7.92%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (6.27%) Cloud Native
5 16 (5.28%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (4.95%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.96%) Operational Technology
8 11 (3.63%) Cloud Security Posture
8 11 (3.63%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.64%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.98%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.32%) BYOD
11 4 (1.32%) CSOC
11 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.99%) CMDB
12 3 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.81%) Windows
2 26 (8.58%) Linux
3 19 (6.27%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.96%) Mac OS
4 12 (3.96%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.97%) Unix
6 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.66%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
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
1 159 (52.48%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (36.96%) Incident Response
3 88 (29.04%) Security Operations
4 86 (28.38%) Cloud Security
5 82 (27.06%) SIEM
6 52 (17.16%) Identity Access Management
6 52 (17.16%) Threat Intelligence
7 51 (16.83%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 48 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (14.85%) Information Security
10 43 (14.19%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 41 (13.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 39 (12.87%) Penetration Testing
12 39 (12.87%) Risk Management
12 39 (12.87%) Threat Modelling
13 38 (12.54%) CI/CD
14 34 (11.22%) Agile
14 34 (11.22%) DevSecOps
15 33 (10.89%) Application Security
15 33 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.54%) Python
2 29 (9.57%) PowerShell
3 23 (7.59%) Bash
4 8 (2.64%) Java
4 8 (2.64%) SQL
5 6 (1.98%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.99%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.66%) Bicep
7 2 (0.66%) Go
7 2 (0.66%) PHP
8 1 (0.33%) Perl
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
8 1 (0.33%) Rust
8 1 (0.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.74%) CISSP
3 71 (23.43%) SC Cleared
4 42 (13.86%) CISM
5 41 (13.53%) Degree
6 25 (8.25%) CEH
7 21 (6.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 18 (5.94%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (4.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 15 (4.95%) Master's Degree
10 14 (4.62%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (4.29%) CCSP
12 12 (3.96%) Azure Certification
13 11 (3.63%) GCIH
13 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (3.63%) OSCP
14 10 (3.30%) GIAC
15 9 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (2.97%) CREST Certified
15 9 (2.97%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (25.08%) NIST
2 74 (24.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (10.56%) GDPR
4 22 (7.26%) PCI DSS
5 14 (4.62%) GRC
6 13 (4.29%) NCSC
7 12 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (3.30%) NIST 800
9 7 (2.31%) HIPAA
10 6 (1.98%) COBIT
10 6 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.98%) SLA
11 5 (1.65%) PSD2
12 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
12 4 (1.32%) PMO
12 4 (1.32%) QA
13 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.66%) GxP
14 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 23 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.61%) Docker
3 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (7.26%) Nessus
1 22 (7.26%) SCCM
2 19 (6.27%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.30%) Ansible
3 10 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.97%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.97%) Terraform
5 8 (2.64%) CASB
6 7 (2.31%) Norton AntiVirus
7 5 (1.65%) QRadar
7 5 (1.65%) WSUS
8 4 (1.32%) Grafana
9 3 (0.99%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.99%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.66%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.66%) Podman
10 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.66%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.66%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 90 (29.70%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.20%) Qualys
3 36 (11.88%) Tenable
4 29 (9.57%) Splunk
5 19 (6.27%) Rapid7
6 17 (5.61%) CrowdStrike
6 17 (5.61%) CyberArk
7 16 (5.28%) Google
7 16 (5.28%) ServiceNow
8 15 (4.95%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.29%) Cisco
10 10 (3.30%) VMware
11 9 (2.97%) BiZZdesign
11 9 (2.97%) McAfee
12 8 (2.64%) Centrify
13 7 (2.31%) Apple
13 7 (2.31%) Remedy
13 7 (2.31%) Symantec
14 6 (1.98%) Oracle
15 5 (1.65%) Zscaler