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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 258 273
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 +97
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 313 289 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.93% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.07% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 195 271
10th Percentile £358 £405 £413
25th Percentile £450 £482 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £780 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 21
10th Percentile £29.51 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £33.43 £53.13 £42.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £57.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +17.35% -24.90%
75th Percentile £62.75 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £57.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.06% +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 27,298 27,047 35,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.35% 86.76% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,334 16,519 24,217
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £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 1,792 976 1,481
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.98 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

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 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 15 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 15 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 +4 146 £568 +0.89% 100
North of England -4 57 £508 -3.20% 29
South East -8 41 £494 -1.25% 66
Yorkshire -2 31 £519 -20.23% 12
North West -12 26 £501 -4.53% 16
East of England -11 24 £450 +5.88% 12
South West -1 23 £450 -30.77% 21
Midlands -34 13 £500 -9.09% 23
West Midlands -30 9 £525 +5.00% 21
East Midlands -14 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 (7.35%) Confluence
2 8 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.64%) CMS
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) 1Password
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.32%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 108 (34.50%) Azure
2 81 (25.88%) AWS
3 38 (12.14%) GCP
4 29 (9.27%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (7.67%) Entra ID
6 21 (6.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (4.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.24%) IaaS
8 7 (2.24%) SaaS
9 6 (1.92%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.60%) PaaS
11 4 (1.28%) Azure Storage
11 4 (1.28%) GitHub
11 4 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.28%) Serverless
12 3 (0.96%) Akamai
12 3 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.96%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 71 (22.68%) Firewall
2 50 (15.97%) Network Security
3 16 (5.11%) DNS
4 15 (4.79%) VPN
5 12 (3.83%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.88%) SSL
7 7 (2.24%) LAN
7 7 (2.24%) WAN
8 6 (1.92%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.92%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.92%) Wireless
9 5 (1.60%) HTTP
10 4 (1.28%) DHCP
10 4 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.96%) Internet
11 3 (0.96%) SMTP
12 2 (0.64%) IPsec
12 2 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.64%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.92%) Power BI
2 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.64%) Tableau
3 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.32%) DB2
3 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (10.86%) JIRA
2 6 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.64%) GitLab
3 2 (0.64%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.64%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.32%) Snyk
General
1 84 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 74 (23.64%) Finance
3 40 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.39%) Banking
6 15 (4.79%) Legal
7 11 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.92%) Retail
10 5 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.96%) Military
12 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.64%) Front Office
12 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 56 (17.89%) Analyst
2 54 (17.25%) Architect
3 46 (14.70%) Security Architect
4 39 (12.46%) Security Engineer
5 36 (11.50%) Senior
6 33 (10.54%) Security Analyst
7 25 (7.99%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 24 (7.67%) Consultant
9 23 (7.35%) Lead
10 14 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (3.19%) Business Analyst
11 10 (3.19%) Security Manager
11 10 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 9 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.88%) Tester
13 8 (2.56%) Security Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.56%) Security Specialist
13 8 (2.56%) Vulnerability Analyst
14 7 (2.24%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.43%) OAuth
2 16 (5.11%) SAML
3 6 (1.92%) OpenID
4 5 (1.60%) JWT
4 5 (1.60%) LDAP
5 4 (1.28%) .NET
6 2 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.64%) Middleware
6 2 (0.64%) Node.js
6 2 (0.64%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.64%) React
6 2 (0.64%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.32%) Fluent Bit
7 1 (0.32%) Loki
7 1 (0.32%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.32%) REST
7 1 (0.32%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.65%) Security Posture
2 33 (10.54%) Management Information System
3 27 (8.63%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (6.07%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (4.79%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.51%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.19%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (2.56%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.28%) BYOD
11 4 (1.28%) CSOC
11 4 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.28%) PKI
12 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 61 (19.49%) Windows
2 31 (9.90%) Linux
3 22 (7.03%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.83%) Mac OS
4 12 (3.83%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.88%) Unix
6 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.64%) VMS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.32%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (53.04%) Cybersecurity
2 114 (36.42%) Incident Response
3 97 (30.99%) Security Operations
4 90 (28.75%) Cloud Security
5 86 (27.48%) SIEM
6 53 (16.93%) Threat Intelligence
7 52 (16.61%) Identity Access Management
7 52 (16.61%) Information Security
7 52 (16.61%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 48 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (14.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 42 (13.42%) Risk Management
11 41 (13.10%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 41 (13.10%) Threat Modelling
12 39 (12.46%) CI/CD
12 39 (12.46%) Penetration Testing
13 34 (10.86%) DevSecOps
14 33 (10.54%) Application Security
14 33 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (10.22%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.46%) Python
2 32 (10.22%) PowerShell
3 25 (7.99%) Bash
4 8 (2.56%) Java
4 8 (2.56%) SQL
5 7 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.64%) Bicep
7 2 (0.64%) Go
7 2 (0.64%) PHP
8 1 (0.32%) Perl
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
8 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 84 (26.84%) CISSP
2 78 (24.92%) Security Cleared
3 70 (22.36%) SC Cleared
4 47 (15.02%) CISM
5 43 (13.74%) Degree
6 26 (8.31%) CEH
7 23 (7.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 20 (6.39%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (5.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (4.79%) CCSP
10 15 (4.79%) Master's Degree
11 14 (4.47%) OSCP
11 14 (4.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (4.15%) GIAC
13 12 (3.83%) Azure Certification
13 12 (3.83%) CREST Certified
14 11 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (3.51%) GCIH
14 11 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (2.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (26.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 83 (26.52%) NIST
2 38 (12.14%) GDPR
3 27 (8.63%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.11%) NCSC
5 15 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (4.79%) GRC
6 10 (3.19%) NIST 800
7 9 (2.88%) COBIT
7 9 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (2.88%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.92%) SLA
9 5 (1.60%) PSD2
10 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.28%) PMO
10 4 (1.28%) QA
11 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.64%) ITGC
System Software
1 25 (7.99%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.11%) Docker
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (7.99%) Nessus
2 24 (7.67%) SCCM
3 18 (5.75%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.56%) Ansible
5 8 (2.56%) CASB
5 8 (2.56%) WSUS
6 7 (2.24%) Norton AntiVirus
6 7 (2.24%) Terraform
7 5 (1.60%) QRadar
8 3 (0.96%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.96%) Grafana
8 3 (0.96%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.64%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.64%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.64%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.64%) SELinux
9 2 (0.64%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 90 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.74%) Qualys
3 33 (10.54%) Tenable
4 28 (8.95%) Splunk
5 19 (6.07%) Rapid7
5 19 (6.07%) ServiceNow
6 17 (5.43%) CyberArk
6 17 (5.43%) Google
7 16 (5.11%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (5.11%) Palo Alto
8 15 (4.79%) Cisco
9 9 (2.88%) BiZZdesign
9 9 (2.88%) McAfee
9 9 (2.88%) VMware
10 8 (2.56%) Centrify
11 7 (2.24%) Apple
11 7 (2.24%) Remedy
11 7 (2.24%) Symantec
12 5 (1.60%) Tanium
12 5 (1.60%) Zscaler