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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 254 275
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 +77
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 300 283 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.92% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.05% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 189 266
10th Percentile £363 £410 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £630 £675 £721
90th Percentile £750 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 27,406 26,969 34,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.94% 87.30% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,388 16,451 23,708
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £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 1,797 990 1,453
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +10 140 £571 -0.65% 53
North of England -10 56 £501 -3.15% 18
South East -18 41 £500 -0.50% 55
Yorkshire -3 31 £519 -20.23% 10
North West -12 25 £501 -3.27% 7
South West -4 20 £450 -35.71% 19
East of England -9 20 £450 +5.88% 3
Midlands -37 14 £500 -9.09% 19
West Midlands -24 10 £513 +2.50% 17
East Midlands -15 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 (7.67%) Confluence
2 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.67%) 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 (35.00%) Azure
2 83 (27.67%) AWS
3 38 (12.67%) GCP
4 30 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (8.67%) Entra ID
6 20 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.33%) IaaS
8 7 (2.33%) SaaS
9 6 (2.00%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.67%) PaaS
11 4 (1.33%) Azure Storage
11 4 (1.33%) GitHub
11 4 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.33%) Serverless
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.00%) OCI
13 2 (0.67%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 66 (22.00%) Firewall
2 48 (16.00%) Network Security
3 16 (5.33%) DNS
4 13 (4.33%) VPN
5 12 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.67%) SSL
6 8 (2.67%) WAN
7 7 (2.33%) LAN
8 6 (2.00%) Kerberos
8 6 (2.00%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.00%) Wireless
9 5 (1.67%) HTTP
10 4 (1.33%) DHCP
10 4 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.00%) Internet
11 3 (1.00%) SAN
11 3 (1.00%) SMTP
12 2 (0.67%) MPLS
12 2 (0.67%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.00%) Power BI
2 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.67%) 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 34 (11.33%) JIRA
2 6 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) GitLab
3 2 (0.67%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Snyk
General
1 85 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 72 (24.00%) Finance
3 43 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.67%) Banking
6 14 (4.67%) Legal
7 10 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.67%) Retail
9 6 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.33%) Military
12 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.33%) Electronics
14 1 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 55 (18.33%) Analyst
2 52 (17.33%) Architect
3 43 (14.33%) Security Architect
4 38 (12.67%) Security Engineer
5 37 (12.33%) Senior
6 33 (11.00%) Security Analyst
7 26 (8.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 22 (7.33%) Lead
9 21 (7.00%) Consultant
10 16 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.00%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 9 (3.00%) Security Manager
13 9 (3.00%) Security Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
13 9 (3.00%) Senior Security Analyst
13 9 (3.00%) Tester
14 8 (2.67%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.67%) OAuth
2 16 (5.33%) SAML
3 6 (2.00%) .NET
3 6 (2.00%) OpenID
4 5 (1.67%) JWT
4 5 (1.67%) LDAP
5 2 (0.67%) EDI
5 2 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.67%) Middleware
5 2 (0.67%) Node.js
5 2 (0.67%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.67%) React
5 2 (0.67%) Web Services
6 1 (0.33%) REST
6 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.33%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.33%) XML
6 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 26 (8.67%) Management Information System
3 25 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (6.33%) Cloud Native
5 15 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (3.67%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.67%) Operational Technology
8 10 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (2.67%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.67%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.33%) BYOD
12 4 (1.33%) CSOC
12 4 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.00%) Windows
2 26 (8.67%) Linux
3 19 (6.33%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.00%) Mac OS
4 12 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.00%) Unix
6 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.67%) 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
1 157 (52.33%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (37.67%) Incident Response
3 89 (29.67%) Security Operations
4 85 (28.33%) Cloud Security
5 83 (27.67%) SIEM
6 53 (17.67%) Threat Intelligence
7 51 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
9 49 (16.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 46 (15.33%) Information Security
11 43 (14.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 42 (14.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 40 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
14 39 (13.00%) Penetration Testing
15 38 (12.67%) CI/CD
15 38 (12.67%) Risk Management
16 34 (11.33%) DevSecOps
17 33 (11.00%) Application Security
17 33 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 32 (10.67%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.00%) Python
2 30 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 25 (8.33%) Bash
4 8 (2.67%) Java
4 8 (2.67%) SQL
5 6 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.67%) Bicep
7 2 (0.67%) Go
7 2 (0.67%) PHP
8 1 (0.33%) Perl
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
8 1 (0.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (26.33%) CISSP
2 77 (25.67%) Security Cleared
3 69 (23.00%) SC Cleared
4 42 (14.00%) CISM
5 41 (13.67%) Degree
6 26 (8.67%) CEH
7 23 (7.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 19 (6.33%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (5.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (5.00%) Master's Degree
11 14 (4.67%) CCSP
11 14 (4.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (4.00%) Azure Certification
13 11 (3.67%) GCIH
13 11 (3.67%) GIAC
13 11 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (3.67%) OSCP
14 10 (3.33%) CREST Certified
15 9 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (3.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (25.67%) NIST
2 75 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (11.00%) GDPR
4 23 (7.67%) PCI DSS
5 14 (4.67%) GRC
5 14 (4.67%) NCSC
6 12 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (3.33%) NIST 800
8 8 (2.67%) HIPAA
9 6 (2.00%) COBIT
9 6 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (2.00%) SLA
10 5 (1.67%) PSD2
11 4 (1.33%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.33%) PMO
12 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (1.00%) QA
12 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.67%) GxP
13 2 (0.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 24 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.33%) Docker
3 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (7.67%) Nessus
2 22 (7.33%) SCCM
3 18 (6.00%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.67%) Ansible
6 8 (2.67%) CASB
6 8 (2.67%) Terraform
7 7 (2.33%) Norton AntiVirus
8 5 (1.67%) QRadar
8 5 (1.67%) WSUS
9 3 (1.00%) CSIRT
9 3 (1.00%) Grafana
9 3 (1.00%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.67%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.67%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 1 (0.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 91 (30.33%) Microsoft
2 41 (13.67%) Qualys
3 34 (11.33%) Tenable
4 30 (10.00%) Splunk
5 19 (6.33%) Rapid7
6 18 (6.00%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.67%) CrowdStrike
7 17 (5.67%) CyberArk
8 16 (5.33%) Google
9 15 (5.00%) Cisco
9 15 (5.00%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.33%) VMware
11 9 (3.00%) BiZZdesign
11 9 (3.00%) McAfee
12 8 (2.67%) Centrify
13 7 (2.33%) Apple
13 7 (2.33%) Remedy
13 7 (2.33%) Symantec
14 6 (2.00%) Oracle
15 5 (1.67%) Zscaler