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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 244 271
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +34
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 426 242 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.99% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.09% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 163 218
10th Percentile £335 £365 £385
25th Percentile £463 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.65%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £774 £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 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
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 £613 £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 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -4 155 £550 -5.17% 58
North of England +22 114 £513 +2.50% 44
Yorkshire +8 67 £500 - 16
South East -54 67 £523 -2.97% 61
North West -5 47 £540 +20.00% 19
Midlands -40 35 £500 -13.04% 16
South West -15 29 £520 +25.94% 12
West Midlands -43 29 £500 -20.00% 8
East of England -23 9 £480 -35.57% 11
East Midlands -26 5 £638 +112.50% 8
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 19 (4.46%) Confluence
2 10 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 145 (34.04%) Azure
2 109 (25.59%) AWS
3 43 (10.09%) Entra ID
4 40 (9.39%) GCP
5 38 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (5.87%) SaaS
7 16 (3.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (3.05%) GitHub
9 11 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.35%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.35%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.35%) Serverless
11 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 5 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.97%) Firewall
2 42 (9.86%) Network Security
3 21 (4.93%) DNS
4 12 (2.82%) VPN
5 11 (2.58%) DHCP
6 9 (2.11%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.41%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.41%) Wireless
8 4 (0.94%) Internet
8 4 (0.94%) SSL
9 3 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.70%) WAN
10 2 (0.47%) LAN
10 2 (0.47%) NGFW
10 2 (0.47%) SAN
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.23%) DKIM
11 1 (0.23%) DMARC
11 1 (0.23%) MPLS
11 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.35%) Power BI
2 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.70%) Big Data
3 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
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 30 (7.04%) JIRA
2 12 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.11%) Snyk
4 7 (1.64%) GitLab
5 3 (0.70%) Git
5 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.47%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.47%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.23%) git-flow
7 1 (0.23%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 121 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 76 (17.84%) Finance
3 69 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.34%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.69%) Legal
7 19 (4.46%) Aerospace
8 17 (3.99%) Banking
9 15 (3.52%) Publishing
10 7 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.17%) Local Government
11 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.17%) Retail
12 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.70%) Military
13 2 (0.47%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (14.32%) Security Engineer
2 55 (12.91%) Analyst
3 46 (10.80%) Architect
4 40 (9.39%) Senior
5 36 (8.45%) Lead
6 32 (7.51%) Security Architect
7 23 (5.40%) Security Manager
8 22 (5.16%) Consultant
9 19 (4.46%) Security Analyst
10 18 (4.23%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.99%) Administrator
12 16 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 14 (3.29%) Project Manager
14 13 (3.05%) Security Consultant
14 13 (3.05%) Senior Security Engineer
14 13 (3.05%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
15 12 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (2.82%) Vulnerability Analyst
16 11 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 11 (2.58%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.76%) SAP Basis
2 8 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (1.64%) OAuth
4 6 (1.41%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.41%) LDAP
4 6 (1.41%) SAML
5 5 (1.17%) JWT
6 4 (0.94%) .NET
6 4 (0.94%) ADO
6 4 (0.94%) Kafka
6 4 (0.94%) LangChain
6 4 (0.94%) Middleware
6 4 (0.94%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.94%) REST
6 4 (0.94%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.94%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.70%) Node.js
7 3 (0.70%) OpenID
7 3 (0.70%) SOAP
8 2 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (12.68%) Security Posture
2 32 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.57%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.16%) Management Information System
4 22 (5.16%) Operational Technology
5 17 (3.99%) Cyber Threat
5 17 (3.99%) Taxonomies
5 17 (3.99%) Virtual Team
6 15 (3.52%) PKI
7 14 (3.29%) Cloud Security Posture
8 13 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
9 12 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (2.58%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.35%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.88%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.41%) IoT
13 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.62%) Linux
2 39 (9.15%) Windows
3 17 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.11%) Unix
6 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.47%) AIX
7 2 (0.47%) HPUX
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Rocky
7 2 (0.47%) Solaris
7 2 (0.47%) SUSE
7 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (42.72%) Cybersecurity
2 99 (23.24%) Incident Response
3 87 (20.42%) Cloud Security
4 76 (17.84%) SIEM
5 75 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 69 (16.20%) Threat Modelling
8 66 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 65 (15.26%) Security Operations
10 63 (14.79%) Risk Management
11 58 (13.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 56 (13.15%) Security Architecture
13 51 (11.97%) DevSecOps
13 51 (11.97%) Roadmaps
14 46 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 43 (10.09%) Agile
15 43 (10.09%) Computer Science
15 43 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
16 42 (9.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (13.15%) Python
2 27 (6.34%) PowerShell
3 21 (4.93%) Bash
4 11 (2.58%) SQL
5 8 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.64%) Java
7 4 (0.94%) Korn
8 3 (0.70%) Bicep
8 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.47%) Go
9 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.23%) C#
10 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.23%) Rust
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 129 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 91 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 74 (17.37%) CISSP
4 56 (13.15%) Degree
5 48 (11.27%) CISM
6 27 (6.34%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (4.46%) DV Cleared
8 15 (3.52%) CEH
8 15 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (3.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 13 (3.05%) GIAC
9 13 (3.05%) PMP
10 12 (2.82%) CCSP
10 12 (2.82%) CREST Certified
11 11 (2.58%) AWS Certification
11 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (2.58%) PMI Certification
12 10 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (2.35%) CRISC
12 10 (2.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (19.01%) NIST
2 68 (15.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (6.34%) GRC
4 20 (4.69%) GDPR
4 20 (4.69%) NCSC
5 17 (3.99%) NIST 800
6 15 (3.52%) SLA
7 12 (2.82%) PCI DSS
8 10 (2.35%) SOC 2
9 9 (2.11%) QA
10 8 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.17%) COBIT
12 4 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.94%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (6.57%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.16%) Docker
3 13 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.47%) GPFS
6 2 (0.47%) Lustre
6 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (5.40%) Terraform
4 19 (4.46%) Nessus
5 13 (3.05%) Ansible
6 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.11%) SCCM
8 6 (1.41%) CASB
9 5 (1.17%) Grafana
9 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.70%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.70%) OpenVAS
10 3 (0.70%) Puppet
10 3 (0.70%) QRadar
10 3 (0.70%) SELinux
11 2 (0.47%) Podman
11 2 (0.47%) SCOM
11 2 (0.47%) SCOrch
12 1 (0.23%) Argo
12 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 69 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 49 (11.50%) Tenable
3 40 (9.39%) Splunk
4 36 (8.45%) Qualys
5 26 (6.10%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.40%) Okta
6 23 (5.40%) SAP
7 16 (3.76%) Rapid7
8 13 (3.05%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.58%) Remedy
10 10 (2.35%) Google
11 8 (1.88%) Cisco
11 8 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.88%) Databricks
11 8 (1.88%) IBM
12 7 (1.64%) Oracle
12 7 (1.64%) VMware
13 6 (1.41%) ForeScout
14 5 (1.17%) Trend Micro
15 4 (0.94%) Fortinet