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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 247 266
Rank change year-on-year +41 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 671 295 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.06% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.17% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 208 205
10th Percentile £372 £321 £393
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £675
90th Percentile £735 £747 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 3
10th Percentile £55.75 £28.72 £51.25
25th Percentile £71.00 £30.06 £53.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83.00 £81.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £99.80 £102.20 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% -11.54%

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 39,332 25,280 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.86% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,139 16,057 17,805
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,708 1,495 1,348
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.36 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.88 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +23 279 £563 +5.04% 285
South East +23 157 £550 +5.77% 152
North of England +18 127 £523 -0.48% 95
Yorkshire +15 66 £588 +9.30% 26
North West -17 50 £500 -1.61% 53
South West -25 39 £600 +50.00% 53
East of England -14 29 £513 +13.89% 39
Midlands -30 29 £513 -2.38% 56
West Midlands -28 27 £525 -20.75% 34
North East - 11 £375 - 16
East Midlands -19 1 - - 22
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 (3.43%) Confluence
2 20 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.53%) Apache
3 17 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.79%) Jupyter
4 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.45%) IIS
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 219 (32.64%) Azure
2 181 (26.97%) AWS
3 71 (10.58%) Entra ID
3 71 (10.58%) GCP
4 64 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (8.64%) GitHub
6 34 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.87%) Azure Sentinel
9 22 (3.28%) SaaS
10 20 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (2.83%) OCI
12 17 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (2.24%) Amazon S3
13 15 (2.24%) Power Platform
14 14 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (1.79%) Datadog
16 10 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (1.34%) OpenShift
17 9 (1.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 72 (10.73%) Network Security
2 44 (6.56%) Firewall
3 15 (2.24%) DNS
3 15 (2.24%) WAN
4 13 (1.94%) MPLS
5 12 (1.79%) BGP
5 12 (1.79%) IPsec
5 12 (1.79%) LAN
6 11 (1.64%) VPN
7 9 (1.34%) Broadband
7 9 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.89%) HTTP
9 5 (0.75%) Internet
9 5 (0.75%) Intranet
10 4 (0.60%) DHCP
10 4 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.60%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.60%) MQTT
11 3 (0.45%) NGFW
11 3 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.24%) Relational Database
2 11 (1.64%) Power BI
3 10 (1.49%) Big Data
4 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.60%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.45%) Power Query
6 3 (0.45%) Trino
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.30%) Flink
7 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.30%) Metadata
7 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.15%) Redis
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (6.41%) GitLab
2 29 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.17%) JIRA
4 23 (3.43%) Git
5 14 (2.09%) Selenium
6 11 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.04%) Snyk
8 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.45%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.45%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.45%) InstallShield
10 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.30%) Flyway
10 2 (0.30%) git-flow
10 2 (0.30%) JUnit
10 2 (0.30%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.30%) Mockito
10 2 (0.30%) MSI
10 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 234 (34.87%) Social Skills
2 134 (19.97%) Finance
3 88 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (11.33%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.56%) Banking
6 29 (4.32%) Aerospace
7 28 (4.17%) Legal
8 22 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 16 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.38%) Military
11 13 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.64%) Local Government
12 11 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.89%) Law
15 4 (0.60%) Retail
16 3 (0.45%) Digital Health
16 3 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (16.39%) Analyst
2 78 (11.62%) Lead
3 66 (9.84%) Consultant
4 63 (9.39%) Architect
5 62 (9.24%) Senior
6 55 (8.20%) Security Engineer
7 52 (7.75%) Security Analyst
8 42 (6.26%) Security Architect
9 40 (5.96%) Security Consultant
10 29 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 27 (4.02%) Security Manager
13 26 (3.87%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 26 (3.87%) Security Specialist
14 24 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 21 (3.13%) Developer
16 20 (2.98%) DevSecOps Consultant
16 20 (2.98%) Vulnerability Analyst
17 19 (2.83%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (14.75%) Terraform
2 17 (2.53%) REST
3 16 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (2.09%) Kafka
5 13 (1.94%) Loki
6 8 (1.19%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.04%) RESTful
8 6 (0.89%) ModSecurity
8 6 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (0.75%) SLSA
10 4 (0.60%) .NET
10 4 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (0.60%) gRPC
10 4 (0.60%) JDBC
10 4 (0.60%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.60%) Protocol Buffers
11 3 (0.45%) JSON
11 3 (0.45%) OAuth
11 3 (0.45%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 111 (16.54%) Security Posture
2 60 (8.94%) Onboarding
3 57 (8.49%) Cyber Threat
4 50 (7.45%) Operational Technology
5 40 (5.96%) Cloud Native
5 40 (5.96%) Management Information System
6 36 (5.37%) Security Operations Centre
7 21 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
7 21 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
8 20 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.98%) SCADA
9 17 (2.53%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.09%) CMDB
11 13 (1.94%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.34%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.34%) Social Media
14 8 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 96 (14.31%) Windows
2 86 (12.82%) Linux
3 29 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.53%) Unix
6 16 (2.38%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.04%) AIX
8 6 (0.89%) Solaris
9 5 (0.75%) HPUX
9 5 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.75%) SUSE
9 5 (0.75%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.30%) Android
12 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 188 (28.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 182 (27.12%) Incident Response
4 173 (25.78%) CI/CD
5 169 (25.19%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 148 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 146 (21.76%) Cloud Security
7 146 (21.76%) Risk Management
8 135 (20.12%) Security Operations
9 121 (18.03%) SIEM
10 115 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 111 (16.54%) DevSecOps
12 105 (15.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 96 (14.31%) DevOps
14 90 (13.41%) Security Architecture
15 87 (12.97%) Application Security
15 87 (12.97%) Identity Access Management
16 83 (12.37%) Information Security
17 81 (12.07%) Threat Modelling
18 73 (10.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 118 (17.59%) Python
2 83 (12.37%) PowerShell
3 40 (5.96%) Bash
4 32 (4.77%) SQL
5 26 (3.87%) Bicep
6 12 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.19%) Java
9 6 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.60%) C#
10 4 (0.60%) Go
10 4 (0.60%) Perl
10 4 (0.60%) Rust
11 3 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.30%) PromQL
13 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 247 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 172 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 125 (18.63%) CISSP
4 88 (13.11%) CISM
5 65 (9.69%) DV Cleared
6 64 (9.54%) Cisco Certification
7 56 (8.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 51 (7.60%) Degree
9 33 (4.92%) CCSP
10 31 (4.62%) CompTIA Security+
11 21 (3.13%) AWS Certification
12 19 (2.83%) Azure Certification
13 17 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (2.38%) CEH
14 16 (2.38%) CRISC
15 15 (2.24%) CISA
15 15 (2.24%) GIAC
16 13 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (1.64%) PMI Certification
17 11 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (21.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (20.12%) NIST
3 61 (9.09%) NCSC
4 55 (8.20%) GDPR
5 50 (7.45%) GRC
6 48 (7.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (3.58%) SLA
8 20 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 20 (2.98%) NIST 800
9 18 (2.68%) PCI DSS
10 14 (2.09%) QA
11 12 (1.79%) ISO 31000
12 10 (1.49%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.34%) COBIT
14 8 (1.19%) Data Quality
14 8 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 6 (0.89%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.75%) Def Stans
16 5 (0.75%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (8.94%) Docker
2 56 (8.35%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.45%) Firmware
6 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.30%) HDFS
8 1 (0.15%) IAG
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (14.31%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.26%) Ansible
3 32 (4.77%) Grafana
4 30 (4.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.38%) SCCM
7 15 (2.24%) Argo
8 12 (1.79%) Nessus
9 9 (1.34%) Puppet
10 7 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.75%) vRealize
12 4 (0.60%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.60%) OPNET
12 4 (0.60%) Podman
12 4 (0.60%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.60%) QRadar
13 3 (0.45%) CASB
13 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.45%) systemd
13 3 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 168 (25.04%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.35%) Qualys
3 48 (7.15%) Tenable
4 37 (5.51%) Splunk
5 35 (5.22%) ServiceNow
6 32 (4.77%) Oracle
7 28 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
8 27 (4.02%) VMware
9 22 (3.28%) Google
10 20 (2.98%) Trend Micro
11 17 (2.53%) Rapid7
12 14 (2.09%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.94%) Tanium
14 11 (1.64%) Databricks
15 9 (1.34%) Fortinet
16 8 (1.19%) Clearswift
16 8 (1.19%) F5
16 8 (1.19%) Remedy
17 7 (1.04%) Apple
17 7 (1.04%) Cisco