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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 253 284
Rank change year-on-year +19 +31 +34
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 445 244 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.00% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.10% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 162 213
10th Percentile £335 £363 £388
25th Percentile £475 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.77% -4.35%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.79% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 -
90th Percentile £84.75 - -
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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -3 162 £550 -4.35% 74
North of England +33 116 £540 +8.00% 66
South East -33 82 £525 -2.51% 82
Yorkshire +6 69 £525 - 22
North West -5 47 £540 +8.00% 30
Midlands -51 31 £500 -20.00% 26
South West -22 28 £550 +33.33% 44
West Midlands -42 25 £438 -33.96% 23
East of England -32 7 £480 -35.57% 36
East Midlands -25 5 £638 +112.50% 3
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 14 (3.15%) Confluence
2 8 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 151 (33.93%) Azure
2 112 (25.17%) AWS
3 50 (11.24%) Entra ID
3 50 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (9.44%) GCP
5 28 (6.29%) SaaS
6 18 (4.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (2.92%) GitHub
8 11 (2.47%) OpenShift
9 10 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.25%) Serverless
10 9 (2.02%) IaaS
10 9 (2.02%) PaaS
10 9 (2.02%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (10.11%) Firewall
2 41 (9.21%) Network Security
3 23 (5.17%) DNS
4 13 (2.92%) DHCP
5 12 (2.70%) VPN
6 8 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.35%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.35%) Wireless
8 4 (0.90%) Internet
8 4 (0.90%) SSL
8 4 (0.90%) WAN
9 3 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.67%) LAN
9 3 (0.67%) NGFW
9 3 (0.67%) SAN
10 2 (0.45%) MPLS
11 1 (0.22%) BGP
11 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.22%) IPsec
11 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.02%) Power BI
2 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.90%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.67%) Big Data
3 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.39%) JIRA
2 9 (2.02%) Snyk
3 8 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.57%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) Git
5 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.45%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.45%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.22%) git-flow
7 1 (0.22%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 133 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 87 (19.55%) Finance
3 70 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.07%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (5.62%) Banking
7 22 (4.94%) Legal
8 19 (4.27%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.37%) Publishing
10 10 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.35%) Local Government
13 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Military
15 3 (0.67%) Retail
16 2 (0.45%) Arabic Language
16 2 (0.45%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (13.48%) Security Engineer
2 59 (13.26%) Analyst
3 51 (11.46%) Architect
4 45 (10.11%) Lead
5 39 (8.76%) Senior
6 34 (7.64%) Security Architect
7 28 (6.29%) Consultant
8 22 (4.94%) Security Analyst
9 20 (4.49%) Security Manager
10 19 (4.27%) Security Specialist
11 18 (4.04%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.60%) Administrator
12 16 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 16 (3.60%) Security Consultant
13 14 (3.15%) Senior Security Engineer
14 13 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.92%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
15 12 (2.70%) Project Manager
15 12 (2.70%) Vulnerability Analyst
16 11 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.60%) SAP Basis
2 9 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.35%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.35%) LDAP
4 4 (0.90%) .NET
4 4 (0.90%) ADO
4 4 (0.90%) Kafka
4 4 (0.90%) LangChain
4 4 (0.90%) PyTorch
4 4 (0.90%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.67%) REST
5 3 (0.67%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.45%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.45%) Middleware
6 2 (0.45%) Node.js
6 2 (0.45%) OAuth
6 2 (0.45%) OpenID
6 2 (0.45%) SLSA
6 2 (0.45%) SOAP
6 2 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.48%) Security Posture
2 38 (8.54%) Operational Technology
3 31 (6.97%) Cloud Native
4 28 (6.29%) Management Information System
5 27 (6.07%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.04%) Cyber Defence
6 18 (4.04%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.82%) Taxonomies
8 15 (3.37%) PKI
9 14 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
10 13 (2.92%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (2.47%) Product Ownership
12 10 (2.25%) Data Centre
13 9 (2.02%) SCADA
14 8 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.80%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.57%) IoT
16 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 54 (12.13%) Linux
2 50 (11.24%) Windows
3 18 (4.04%) Unix
4 17 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.90%) AIX
6 4 (0.90%) HPUX
6 4 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (0.90%) Solaris
6 4 (0.90%) SUSE
6 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.45%) Rocky
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (42.47%) Cybersecurity
2 103 (23.15%) Incident Response
3 85 (19.10%) Cloud Security
4 84 (18.88%) SIEM
5 82 (18.43%) CI/CD
6 81 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 77 (17.30%) Threat Modelling
8 73 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 72 (16.18%) Security Architecture
10 70 (15.73%) Risk Management
11 64 (14.38%) Security Operations
11 64 (14.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 59 (13.26%) Roadmaps
13 57 (12.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 51 (11.46%) DevSecOps
15 42 (9.44%) DevOps
15 42 (9.44%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
16 41 (9.21%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 40 (8.99%) SDLC
17 40 (8.99%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.46%) Python
2 26 (5.84%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.27%) Bash
4 10 (2.25%) SQL
5 7 (1.57%) Java
6 4 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.90%) Korn
7 3 (0.67%) Bicep
7 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.45%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.22%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Rust
9 1 (0.22%) Scala
9 1 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 131 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 89 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 87 (19.55%) CISSP
4 59 (13.26%) Degree
5 54 (12.13%) CISM
6 25 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (5.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 24 (5.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 22 (4.94%) DV Cleared
9 19 (4.27%) GIAC
10 18 (4.04%) CCSP
11 16 (3.60%) CRISC
12 11 (2.47%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.25%) CEH
13 10 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.25%) CREST Certified
13 10 (2.25%) PMP
14 9 (2.02%) Azure Certification
14 9 (2.02%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (18.88%) NIST
2 75 (16.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (6.52%) GRC
4 18 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (4.04%) GDPR
4 18 (4.04%) NCSC
5 17 (3.82%) SLA
6 14 (3.15%) NIST 800
7 10 (2.25%) SOC 2
8 9 (2.02%) ISO 31000
8 9 (2.02%) PCI DSS
8 9 (2.02%) QA
9 5 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.12%) COBIT
9 5 (1.12%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.67%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.67%) IFRS
10 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (8.76%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.72%) Docker
3 18 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.45%) GPFS
6 2 (0.45%) Lustre
6 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.39%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (5.39%) Terraform
3 18 (4.04%) Nessus
4 12 (2.70%) Ansible
5 11 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.35%) SCCM
7 5 (1.12%) CASB
7 5 (1.12%) Grafana
7 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.67%) OpenVAS
8 3 (0.67%) Puppet
8 3 (0.67%) SELinux
9 2 (0.45%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.45%) Podman
9 2 (0.45%) QRadar
9 2 (0.45%) WSUS
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 74 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 48 (10.79%) Tenable
3 38 (8.54%) Splunk
4 35 (7.87%) Qualys
5 26 (5.84%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.17%) SAP
7 22 (4.94%) Okta
8 15 (3.37%) Rapid7
9 14 (3.15%) CyberArk
10 12 (2.70%) Remedy
11 10 (2.25%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (2.25%) Oracle
11 10 (2.25%) VMware
12 8 (1.80%) Databricks
12 8 (1.80%) Google
13 7 (1.57%) IBM
14 6 (1.35%) Cisco
14 6 (1.35%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.35%) Tanium
14 6 (1.35%) Trend Micro
290 Vulnerability Management jobs in England