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

 6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 248 271
Rank change year-on-year +62 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 738 298 289
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.06% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.16% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 197 195
10th Percentile £386 £342 £418
25th Percentile £481 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -7.29%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £675
90th Percentile £735 £741 £780
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 3
10th Percentile £50.57 £29.11 £51.25
25th Percentile £71.00 £30.61 £53.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £41.94 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -27.06% +17.35%
75th Percentile - £63.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £101.10 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £41.94 £57.50
% change year-on-year +90.75% -27.06% +17.35%

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 39,797 25,656 27,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 90.96% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 16,263 16,907
10th Percentile £325 £296 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,100 1,620 1,099
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.64 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.00 £66.80
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.55 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.07% -37.13% -10.11%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +32 321 £575 +1.32% 59
South East +40 171 £550 +10.00% 36
North of England +24 134 £564 +8.46% 34
Yorkshire +15 67 £588 +11.16% 12
North West -12 54 £568 +10.25% 17
South West -19 38 £560 +24.44% 19
Midlands -21 35 £554 +19.78% 18
East of England -16 34 £510 +13.33% 9
West Midlands -16 33 £568 -21.66% 15
North East - 13 £375 - 5
East Midlands -8 2 £402 -4.00% 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 (3.39%) Confluence
2 20 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.71%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.30%) Apache
4 14 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.63%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.95%) IIS
7 5 (0.68%) Apache Superset
8 4 (0.54%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.14%) Documentum
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.14%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 244 (33.06%) Azure
2 200 (27.10%) AWS
3 85 (11.52%) Entra ID
3 85 (11.52%) GCP
4 71 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (8.94%) GitHub
6 39 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (5.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.52%) OCI
10 25 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (2.71%) Power Platform
13 18 (2.44%) SaaS
14 16 (2.17%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.90%) Datadog
16 12 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (1.49%) Serverless
18 10 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 87 (11.79%) Network Security
2 60 (8.13%) Firewall
3 16 (2.17%) WAN
4 13 (1.76%) MPLS
5 12 (1.63%) BGP
5 12 (1.63%) DNS
5 12 (1.63%) IPsec
5 12 (1.63%) LAN
5 12 (1.63%) VPN
6 10 (1.36%) Broadband
7 9 (1.22%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.95%) HTTP
8 7 (0.95%) Internet
8 7 (0.95%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.68%) Intranet
10 4 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.54%) MQTT
11 3 (0.41%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.03%) Relational Database
2 13 (1.76%) Power BI
3 10 (1.36%) Big Data
3 10 (1.36%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (0.95%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Hive
5 4 (0.54%) Hadoop
5 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.54%) Trino
6 3 (0.41%) Power Query
7 2 (0.27%) Flink
7 2 (0.27%) Metadata
7 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.14%) Redis
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (6.23%) GitLab
2 31 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.52%) JIRA
4 24 (3.25%) Git
5 14 (1.90%) Selenium
6 11 (1.49%) Snyk
6 11 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.95%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.54%) Maven
11 3 (0.41%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.27%) Flyway
12 2 (0.27%) git-flow
12 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.27%) Mockito
12 2 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
12 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 240 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 138 (18.70%) Finance
3 87 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 43 (5.83%) Banking
6 27 (3.66%) Aerospace
7 24 (3.25%) Legal
8 20 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.44%) Military
10 17 (2.30%) Financial Institution
10 17 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.36%) Local Government
15 7 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Law
17 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 115 (15.58%) Analyst
2 82 (11.11%) Consultant
3 81 (10.98%) Lead
4 78 (10.57%) Architect
5 68 (9.21%) Security Engineer
6 66 (8.94%) Senior
7 58 (7.86%) Security Analyst
8 54 (7.32%) Security Consultant
9 50 (6.78%) Security Architect
10 41 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 34 (4.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 33 (4.47%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 32 (4.34%) Security Manager
14 31 (4.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 31 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.39%) Security Specialist
16 23 (3.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 23 (3.12%) Vulnerability Analyst
17 20 (2.71%) Developer
18 19 (2.57%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (16.53%) Terraform
2 19 (2.57%) REST
3 18 (2.44%) Kafka
4 16 (2.17%) Loki
5 11 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (1.49%) ModSecurity
6 8 (1.08%) .NET
7 7 (0.95%) ARM Templates
7 7 (0.95%) JSON
7 7 (0.95%) OAuth
7 7 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (0.81%) RESTful
9 5 (0.68%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (0.68%) SLSA
10 4 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (0.54%) gRPC
10 4 (0.54%) JDBC
10 4 (0.54%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.54%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (0.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 117 (15.85%) Security Posture
2 74 (10.03%) Onboarding
3 66 (8.94%) Cyber Threat
4 55 (7.45%) Operational Technology
5 46 (6.23%) Cloud Native
6 45 (6.10%) Management Information System
7 38 (5.15%) Security Operations Centre
8 23 (3.12%) SCADA
9 22 (2.98%) Cloud Security Posture
9 22 (2.98%) Cyber Defence
10 20 (2.71%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.57%) Data Centre
12 15 (2.03%) CMDB
12 15 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.63%) Private Cloud
15 10 (1.36%) Social Media
16 9 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
16 9 (1.22%) NHS
17 8 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 117 (15.85%) Windows
2 94 (12.74%) Linux
3 38 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.30%) macOS
6 14 (1.90%) Unix
7 8 (1.08%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.54%) AIX
11 3 (0.41%) Solaris
12 2 (0.27%) Android
12 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.27%) HPUX
12 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.27%) SUSE
12 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (55.69%) Cybersecurity
2 207 (28.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 204 (27.64%) Incident Response
4 191 (25.88%) CI/CD
5 186 (25.20%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 165 (22.36%) Security Operations
7 164 (22.22%) Cloud Security
8 161 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (21.00%) Risk Management
10 137 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 129 (17.48%) SIEM
12 124 (16.80%) DevSecOps
13 109 (14.77%) DevOps
14 103 (13.96%) Identity Access Management
14 103 (13.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 99 (13.41%) Security Architecture
16 98 (13.28%) Information Security
17 97 (13.14%) Application Security
18 89 (12.06%) Threat Intelligence
19 85 (11.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 133 (18.02%) Python
2 105 (14.23%) PowerShell
3 48 (6.50%) Bash
4 39 (5.28%) SQL
5 28 (3.79%) Bicep
6 15 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.08%) C#
9 7 (0.95%) Go
9 7 (0.95%) Java
9 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.54%) Perl
10 4 (0.54%) Rust
10 4 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.41%) CodeQL
12 2 (0.27%) PromQL
13 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 264 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 198 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 135 (18.29%) CISSP
4 96 (13.01%) CISM
5 70 (9.49%) Cisco Certification
6 64 (8.67%) DV Cleared
7 60 (8.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 54 (7.32%) Degree
9 38 (5.15%) CCSP
10 28 (3.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 22 (2.98%) AWS Certification
11 22 (2.98%) CRISC
12 21 (2.85%) CISA
13 19 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (2.44%) GIAC
15 17 (2.30%) Azure Certification
16 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (1.76%) CEH
17 13 (1.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 12 (1.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (21.41%) NIST
2 157 (21.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 72 (9.76%) NCSC
4 59 (7.99%) GDPR
4 59 (7.99%) GRC
5 54 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (3.79%) PCI DSS
7 24 (3.25%) SLA
8 22 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 19 (2.57%) NIST 800
10 15 (2.03%) ISO 31000
10 15 (2.03%) QA
11 13 (1.76%) Data Quality
12 12 (1.63%) COBIT
12 12 (1.63%) SOC 2
13 8 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 7 (0.95%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.81%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.81%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (9.62%) Docker
2 70 (9.49%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.95%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.68%) Firmware
7 5 (0.68%) ISA Server
8 4 (0.54%) HDFS
8 4 (0.54%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.41%) vSphere
10 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.27%) IAG
Systems Management
1 110 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 46 (6.23%) Ansible
3 39 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (4.61%) Grafana
5 18 (2.44%) Argo
6 17 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.30%) SCCM
7 12 (1.63%) Nessus
8 10 (1.36%) Puppet
9 7 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.81%) vRealize
11 5 (0.68%) CASB
11 5 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (0.68%) VxRail
12 4 (0.54%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.54%) OPNET
12 4 (0.54%) Podman
12 4 (0.54%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.41%) QRadar
14 2 (0.27%) Consul
Vendors
1 206 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.81%) Qualys
3 51 (6.91%) Tenable
4 46 (6.23%) ServiceNow
5 44 (5.96%) Splunk
6 37 (5.01%) VMware
7 34 (4.61%) CrowdStrike
8 33 (4.47%) Rapid7
9 31 (4.20%) Oracle
10 26 (3.52%) Google
11 18 (2.44%) Cisco
12 16 (2.17%) Trend Micro
13 12 (1.63%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.49%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.49%) Palo Alto
15 10 (1.36%) F5
15 10 (1.36%) Tanium
16 8 (1.08%) Citrix
16 8 (1.08%) SolarWinds
16 8 (1.08%) Tripwire
165 Vulnerability Management jobs in England