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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 243 277
Rank change year-on-year +33 +34 +16
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 493 255 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.07% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.17% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 175 211
10th Percentile £357 £325 £380
25th Percentile £477 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.05% +0.92% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 0
10th Percentile £48.15 £27.93 -
25th Percentile £55.75 £28.52 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £31.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +114.35% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £48.36 -
90th Percentile £84.60 £57.29 -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £31.49 -
% change year-on-year +158.81% - -

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -15 187 £550 -0.90% 92
North of England +27 120 £525 -12.50% 65
South East -32 93 £525 -2.51% 85
Yorkshire +11 69 £525 - 18
North West +5 51 £533 +6.50% 27
South West -11 34 £554 +38.50% 53
Midlands -44 30 £500 -20.00% 30
West Midlands -48 24 £438 -33.96% 27
East of England -37 8 £513 -21.15% 32
East Midlands -25 5 £638 +112.50% 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 16 (3.25%) Confluence
2 7 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 158 (32.05%) Azure
2 116 (23.53%) AWS
3 54 (10.95%) Entra ID
4 49 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (9.13%) GCP
6 30 (6.09%) SaaS
7 20 (4.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 19 (3.85%) GitHub
9 15 (3.04%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (2.43%) Serverless
11 11 (2.23%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.83%) IaaS
13 9 (1.83%) PaaS
13 9 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 6 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (9.33%) Firewall
1 46 (9.33%) Network Security
2 23 (4.67%) DNS
3 14 (2.84%) DHCP
4 12 (2.43%) VPN
5 9 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.42%) WAN
7 6 (1.22%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.22%) LAN
7 6 (1.22%) Wireless
8 5 (1.01%) BGP
8 5 (1.01%) IPsec
8 5 (1.01%) MPLS
9 4 (0.81%) NGFW
9 4 (0.81%) SSL
10 3 (0.61%) Internet
10 3 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.61%) MQTT
11 2 (0.41%) SAN
11 2 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.03%) Power BI
2 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.61%) Big Data
4 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.20%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (5.27%) JIRA
2 14 (2.84%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.64%) GitLab
4 9 (1.83%) Snyk
5 8 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.42%) Git
7 3 (0.61%) AdminStudio
7 3 (0.61%) git-flow
7 3 (0.61%) InstallShield
7 3 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.41%) Flyway
8 2 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.41%) Mockito
9 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.20%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 143 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 98 (19.88%) Finance
3 77 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.68%) Banking
6 25 (5.07%) Legal
7 24 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (4.06%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.04%) Publishing
10 13 (2.64%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.62%) Local Government
13 6 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Law
15 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.41%) Arabic Language
16 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (13.39%) Analyst
2 61 (12.37%) Security Engineer
3 49 (9.94%) Architect
4 46 (9.33%) Lead
5 42 (8.52%) Senior
6 38 (7.71%) Consultant
7 33 (6.69%) Security Architect
8 26 (5.27%) Security Analyst
9 23 (4.67%) Security Consultant
9 23 (4.67%) Security Specialist
10 22 (4.46%) Security Manager
11 18 (3.65%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.04%) Administrator
12 15 (3.04%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 14 (2.84%) Senior Security Engineer
13 14 (2.84%) Vulnerability Analyst
14 13 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.64%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
15 12 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.43%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.25%) SAP Basis
2 13 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.22%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.22%) Kafka
3 6 (1.22%) LDAP
4 5 (1.01%) REST
4 5 (1.01%) RESTful
5 4 (0.81%) ADO
5 4 (0.81%) LangChain
5 4 (0.81%) PyTorch
5 4 (0.81%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.61%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.61%) gRPC
6 3 (0.61%) Keycloak
6 3 (0.61%) OAuth
6 3 (0.61%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.61%) SLSA
6 3 (0.61%) Spring
6 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.41%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 67 (13.59%) Security Posture
2 42 (8.52%) Operational Technology
3 32 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 30 (6.09%) Onboarding
5 27 (5.48%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.06%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.85%) Virtual Team
8 17 (3.45%) Taxonomies
9 16 (3.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 15 (3.04%) Cyber Defence
10 15 (3.04%) PKI
11 14 (2.84%) Product Ownership
12 13 (2.64%) Cloud Security Posture
13 12 (2.43%) Data Centre
14 10 (2.03%) SCADA
15 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.62%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.42%) IoT
17 6 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
17 6 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.39%) Linux
2 59 (11.97%) Windows
3 20 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.65%) Unix
5 14 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.01%) AIX
7 4 (0.81%) HPUX
7 4 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.81%) Solaris
7 4 (0.81%) SUSE
7 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.41%) Rocky
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (43.41%) Cybersecurity
2 115 (23.33%) Incident Response
3 98 (19.88%) CI/CD
4 94 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 93 (18.86%) SIEM
6 89 (18.05%) Cloud Security
7 88 (17.85%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 86 (17.44%) Risk Management
8 86 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 81 (16.43%) Threat Modelling
10 79 (16.02%) Security Architecture
11 75 (15.21%) Security Operations
12 62 (12.58%) Roadmaps
13 60 (12.17%) DevSecOps
13 60 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 54 (10.95%) DevOps
15 46 (9.33%) Validation
16 45 (9.13%) Application Security
17 44 (8.92%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 43 (8.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 57 (11.56%) Python
2 34 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 20 (4.06%) Bash
4 12 (2.43%) SQL
5 9 (1.83%) Java
6 6 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.01%) Bicep
7 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.81%) Korn
9 3 (0.61%) Rust
10 2 (0.41%) Go
10 2 (0.41%) PromQL
11 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.20%) C#
11 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 144 (29.21%) Security Cleared
2 96 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 95 (19.27%) CISSP
4 66 (13.39%) Degree
5 60 (12.17%) CISM
6 31 (6.29%) DV Cleared
7 29 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
8 28 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (5.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 21 (4.26%) CCSP
11 16 (3.25%) CRISC
11 16 (3.25%) GIAC
12 12 (2.43%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.03%) CEH
13 10 (2.03%) PMP
14 9 (1.83%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (1.83%) CISA
14 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.62%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (18.26%) NIST
2 82 (16.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (6.90%) GRC
4 28 (5.68%) GDPR
5 27 (5.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (5.07%) NCSC
7 18 (3.65%) SLA
8 14 (2.84%) NIST 800
9 12 (2.43%) SOC 2
10 11 (2.23%) ISO 31000
10 11 (2.23%) QA
11 10 (2.03%) PCI DSS
12 7 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (1.01%) COBIT
13 5 (1.01%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.81%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 28 (5.68%) Docker
3 20 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.41%) GPFS
6 2 (0.41%) Lustre
6 2 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.49%) Terraform
3 24 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (4.46%) Ansible
5 20 (4.06%) Nessus
6 13 (2.64%) Grafana
6 13 (2.64%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.42%) Puppet
8 7 (1.42%) SCCM
9 5 (1.01%) CASB
10 4 (0.81%) Podman
11 3 (0.61%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.61%) SELinux
11 3 (0.61%) vRealize
12 2 (0.41%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.41%) QRadar
12 2 (0.41%) SCOM
12 2 (0.41%) WSUS
12 2 (0.41%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 80 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.14%) Tenable
3 39 (7.91%) Qualys
3 39 (7.91%) Splunk
4 25 (5.07%) ServiceNow
5 23 (4.67%) SAP
6 22 (4.46%) Okta
7 13 (2.64%) VMware
8 12 (2.43%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (2.43%) Remedy
9 11 (2.23%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.23%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.23%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.62%) Databricks
10 8 (1.62%) Google
10 8 (1.62%) Oracle
11 7 (1.42%) IBM
12 6 (1.22%) Cisco
12 6 (1.22%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.22%) Trend Micro