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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 281 256
Rank change year-on-year +12 -25 +93
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 311 226 330
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.84% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.94% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 145 248
10th Percentile £363 £400 £406
25th Percentile £444 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £622 £675 £676
90th Percentile £775 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 20
10th Percentile - £50.63 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £51.56 £42.25
Median hourly rate £49.73 £53.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +9.69% -24.90%
75th Percentile £57.25 £56.56 £67.50
90th Percentile - £57.88 £67.63
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year +2.33% +9.69% -24.90%

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 28,110 24,036 31,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.29% 89.17% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,964 14,778 21,397
10th Percentile £304 £309 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £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 1,739 771 1,493
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £76.91
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +12 123 £571 -4.79% 27
North of England +8 69 £494 -17.71% 32
South East -30 48 £475 -12.24% 27
Yorkshire -10 43 £500 - 10
North West 0 26 £450 -29.41% 20
South West -8 20 £550 +29.41% 11
Midlands -38 19 £500 +51.52% 10
East of England -16 16 £465 +9.41% 8
West Midlands -32 15 £525 +59.09% 7
East Midlands -25 4 £419 - 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 25 (8.04%) Confluence
2 8 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 115 (36.98%) Azure
2 96 (30.87%) AWS
3 39 (12.54%) Entra ID
3 39 (12.54%) GCP
4 36 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (6.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 16 (5.14%) SaaS
7 14 (4.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (3.22%) Serverless
9 7 (2.25%) GitHub
9 7 (2.25%) IaaS
10 6 (1.93%) PaaS
11 5 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.61%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.29%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (17.04%) Firewall
2 41 (13.18%) Network Security
3 14 (4.50%) VPN
4 12 (3.86%) DNS
5 10 (3.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.93%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.93%) LAN
6 6 (1.93%) WAN
7 4 (1.29%) DHCP
7 4 (1.29%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.29%) Wireless
8 3 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.96%) SSL
8 3 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.64%) HTTP
9 2 (0.64%) Internet
9 2 (0.64%) IPsec
9 2 (0.64%) S/MIME
9 2 (0.64%) SAN
9 2 (0.64%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.61%) Power BI
2 3 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.32%) DB2
4 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (9.97%) JIRA
2 7 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.29%) Snyk
4 3 (0.96%) GitLab
5 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.64%) Git
5 2 (0.64%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.64%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
General
1 90 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.65%) Finance
3 48 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.82%) Banking
7 13 (4.18%) Legal
8 8 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.25%) Publishing
10 6 (1.93%) Retail
11 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.29%) Military
11 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.64%) Local Government
12 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.32%) Front Office
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (16.40%) Architect
2 48 (15.43%) Analyst
3 43 (13.83%) Security Architect
4 39 (12.54%) Senior
5 36 (11.58%) Security Engineer
6 27 (8.68%) Security Analyst
7 19 (6.11%) Lead
8 18 (5.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 15 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (4.50%) Consultant
10 14 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.86%) Administrator
11 12 (3.86%) Security Manager
12 11 (3.54%) Security Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.22%) Business Analyst
13 10 (3.22%) Security Officer
14 9 (2.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 9 (2.89%) Tester
15 8 (2.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.47%) OAuth
2 16 (5.14%) SAML
3 8 (2.57%) SAP Basis
4 6 (1.93%) OpenID
5 5 (1.61%) .NET
5 5 (1.61%) JWT
6 4 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.96%) Kafka
7 3 (0.96%) REST
8 2 (0.64%) ADO
8 2 (0.64%) CSS
8 2 (0.64%) HTML
8 2 (0.64%) Middleware
8 2 (0.64%) Node.js
8 2 (0.64%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.64%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.64%) SOAP
8 2 (0.64%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.64%) Web Services
8 2 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.90%) Security Posture
2 25 (8.04%) Cyber Threat
3 23 (7.40%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.40%) Management Information System
4 22 (7.07%) Onboarding
5 19 (6.11%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (3.54%) Cyber Defence
6 11 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.54%) Operational Technology
7 9 (2.89%) Taxonomies
8 8 (2.57%) PKI
8 8 (2.57%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.61%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.29%) BYOD
11 4 (1.29%) CMDB
11 4 (1.29%) CSOC
12 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.40%) Windows
2 29 (9.32%) Linux
3 21 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.54%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.22%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.25%) Unix
7 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.64%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.32%) Rocky
9 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.32%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (48.55%) Cybersecurity
2 117 (37.62%) Incident Response
3 84 (27.01%) Security Operations
4 82 (26.37%) SIEM
5 77 (24.76%) Cloud Security
6 53 (17.04%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 52 (16.72%) Identity Access Management
8 48 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (14.15%) Threat Intelligence
9 44 (14.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 43 (13.83%) Risk Management
11 41 (13.18%) CI/CD
11 41 (13.18%) DevSecOps
12 39 (12.54%) Threat Modelling
13 37 (11.90%) Information Security
14 35 (11.25%) Agile
15 34 (10.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
16 32 (10.29%) Application Security
16 32 (10.29%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (11.90%) Python
2 23 (7.40%) PowerShell
3 21 (6.75%) Bash
4 7 (2.25%) Java
4 7 (2.25%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.25%) SQL
5 5 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.64%) Bicep
7 1 (0.32%) Go
7 1 (0.32%) Ruby
7 1 (0.32%) Rust
7 1 (0.32%) Scala
7 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (28.94%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.08%) SC Cleared
3 72 (23.15%) CISSP
4 45 (14.47%) Degree
5 43 (13.83%) CISM
6 21 (6.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (6.11%) CEH
8 16 (5.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (4.82%) Master's Degree
10 13 (4.18%) Azure Certification
10 13 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (3.86%) AWS Certification
12 11 (3.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (3.54%) CCSP
13 10 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (3.22%) CREST Certified
13 10 (3.22%) GCIH
13 10 (3.22%) PhD
14 9 (2.89%) DV Cleared
14 9 (2.89%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (23.15%) NIST
2 65 (20.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.40%) GDPR
4 17 (5.47%) NCSC
4 17 (5.47%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.22%) GRC
6 9 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.89%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.93%) COBIT
8 5 (1.61%) PSD2
9 4 (1.29%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.29%) PMO
9 4 (1.29%) SLA
10 3 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.64%) GxP
11 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.64%) ITGC
11 2 (0.64%) JSP 440
System Software
1 24 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.43%) Docker
3 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.32%) GPFS
5 1 (0.32%) Lustre
5 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.40%) SCCM
3 19 (6.11%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (4.82%) Nessus
5 13 (4.18%) Terraform
6 12 (3.86%) Ansible
7 11 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.89%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (2.57%) Norton AntiVirus
10 5 (1.61%) WSUS
11 4 (1.29%) Grafana
12 3 (0.96%) Nexpose
12 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.96%) QRadar
13 2 (0.64%) CASB
13 2 (0.64%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.64%) Podman
13 2 (0.64%) Puppet
13 2 (0.64%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.64%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 78 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.93%) Qualys
3 30 (9.65%) Tenable
4 22 (7.07%) Splunk
5 14 (4.50%) CyberArk
5 14 (4.50%) Rapid7
5 14 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.86%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (3.86%) Google
7 11 (3.54%) VMware
8 10 (3.22%) BiZZdesign
8 10 (3.22%) McAfee
8 10 (3.22%) Okta
8 10 (3.22%) SAP
9 9 (2.89%) Centrify
10 8 (2.57%) Cisco
10 8 (2.57%) Symantec
11 7 (2.25%) Apple
11 7 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.61%) Citrix