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

 6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 245 282
Rank change year-on-year +45 +37 +23
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 580 275 310
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.04% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.15% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 185 222
10th Percentile £355 £313 £391
25th Percentile £465 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.84% -3.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 6 1
10th Percentile £53.95 £28.52 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £29.79 £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £43.62 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% -24.14% +119.05%
75th Percentile £84.00 £90.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £84.60 £102.75 -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £43.62 £57.50
% change year-on-year +86.85% -24.14% +119.05%

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 37,549 23,970 31,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 91.01% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,634 15,421 20,733
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,193 2,304
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +21 240 £550 - 146
North of England +40 139 £540 -15.29% 60
South East -10 106 £525 +0.19% 106
Yorkshire +16 73 £550 - 20
North West +5 57 £540 -8.09% 27
South West -14 37 £561 +40.34% 51
Midlands -33 32 £525 -16.00% 38
West Midlands -46 26 £438 -33.96% 21
East of England -33 12 £513 +7.89% 38
North East -28 9 £375 -45.45% 13
East Midlands -11 5 £638 +112.50% 17
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 21 (3.62%) Confluence
2 16 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.24%) Apache
3 13 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.07%) Jupyter
5 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 172 (29.66%) Azure
2 148 (25.52%) AWS
3 62 (10.69%) Entra ID
4 53 (9.14%) GCP
5 51 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (4.83%) GitHub
6 28 (4.83%) SaaS
7 26 (4.48%) Azure Sentinel
8 18 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (2.41%) OCI
9 14 (2.41%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.24%) OpenShift
11 12 (2.07%) Serverless
12 9 (1.55%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (11.90%) Network Security
2 46 (7.93%) Firewall
3 21 (3.62%) DNS
4 13 (2.24%) DHCP
5 10 (1.72%) VPN
5 10 (1.72%) WAN
6 8 (1.38%) BGP
6 8 (1.38%) IPsec
6 8 (1.38%) LAN
6 8 (1.38%) MPLS
6 8 (1.38%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.03%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.03%) Wireless
8 5 (0.86%) Internet
8 5 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.69%) MQTT
9 4 (0.69%) NGFW
9 4 (0.69%) SSL
10 3 (0.52%) Broadband
11 2 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.07%) Power BI
2 6 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.86%) Big Data
3 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.17%) Redis
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (5.00%) GitLab
1 29 (5.00%) JIRA
2 18 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.90%) SonarQube
4 8 (1.38%) Git
4 8 (1.38%) Snyk
5 3 (0.52%) AdminStudio
5 3 (0.52%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.52%) git-flow
5 3 (0.52%) InstallShield
5 3 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.34%) Flyway
6 2 (0.34%) JUnit
6 2 (0.34%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.34%) Mockito
7 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.17%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.17%) TruffleHog
General
1 170 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 123 (21.21%) Finance
3 83 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.00%) Banking
6 24 (4.14%) Legal
7 21 (3.62%) Aerospace
8 19 (3.28%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.72%) Publishing
12 9 (1.55%) Local Government
13 8 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.03%) Military
15 5 (0.86%) Law
16 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.34%) Arabic Language
18 1 (0.17%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (13.10%) Analyst
2 63 (10.86%) Lead
3 58 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 56 (9.66%) Architect
5 54 (9.31%) Consultant
6 43 (7.41%) Senior
7 38 (6.55%) Security Architect
8 32 (5.52%) Security Consultant
9 31 (5.34%) Security Analyst
10 24 (4.14%) Security Manager
11 22 (3.79%) Security Specialist
12 19 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 19 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
12 19 (3.28%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 18 (3.10%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.10%) Developer
14 17 (2.93%) Vulnerability Analyst
15 16 (2.76%) DevSecOps Consultant
16 15 (2.59%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 15 (2.59%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (1.72%) SAP Basis
3 9 (1.55%) Loki
4 7 (1.21%) REST
4 7 (1.21%) RESTful
5 6 (1.03%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.03%) Kafka
5 6 (1.03%) LangChain
5 6 (1.03%) LDAP
5 6 (1.03%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.03%) scikit-learn
6 4 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.69%) gRPC
6 4 (0.69%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.69%) ModSecurity
6 4 (0.69%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (0.52%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.52%) OAuth
7 3 (0.52%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.55%) Security Posture
2 48 (8.28%) Operational Technology
3 43 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 43 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 34 (5.86%) Management Information System
5 29 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (3.62%) Security Operations Centre
6 21 (3.62%) Virtual Team
7 20 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
8 17 (2.93%) Cloud Security Posture
9 15 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.07%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.07%) SCADA
11 11 (1.90%) PKI
12 10 (1.72%) CMDB
12 10 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.72%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.55%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.21%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 78 (13.45%) Linux
2 77 (13.28%) Windows
3 23 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.28%) Unix
6 11 (1.90%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.03%) AIX
9 5 (0.86%) HPUX
9 5 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.86%) Solaris
9 5 (0.86%) SUSE
10 4 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.52%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.17%) Android
13 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.17%) CentOS
13 1 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (45.34%) Cybersecurity
2 137 (23.62%) Incident Response
3 132 (22.76%) CI/CD
4 127 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 115 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 114 (19.66%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 111 (19.14%) Cloud Security
8 109 (18.79%) Risk Management
9 108 (18.62%) SIEM
10 105 (18.10%) Security Operations
11 90 (15.52%) Threat Modelling
12 89 (15.34%) Security Architecture
13 85 (14.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 82 (14.14%) DevSecOps
15 76 (13.10%) DevOps
16 75 (12.93%) Roadmaps
17 59 (10.17%) Application Security
17 59 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
18 50 (8.62%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (15.34%) Python
2 47 (8.10%) PowerShell
3 32 (5.52%) Bash
4 15 (2.59%) SQL
5 11 (1.90%) Bicep
5 11 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (1.38%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.21%) Java
8 4 (0.69%) Korn
8 4 (0.69%) Rust
9 3 (0.52%) Perl
10 2 (0.34%) Go
10 2 (0.34%) PromQL
10 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 196 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 129 (22.24%) SC Cleared
3 109 (18.79%) CISSP
4 65 (11.21%) CISM
4 65 (11.21%) Degree
5 46 (7.93%) DV Cleared
6 39 (6.72%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (5.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 27 (4.66%) CompTIA Security+
9 26 (4.48%) CCSP
10 20 (3.45%) GIAC
11 16 (2.76%) CRISC
12 15 (2.59%) AWS Certification
13 12 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (2.07%) CISA
13 12 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (1.72%) CEH
15 10 (1.72%) CESG Certified Professional
15 10 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (18.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 100 (17.24%) NIST
3 44 (7.59%) GRC
4 40 (6.90%) GDPR
5 38 (6.55%) NCSC
6 29 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (3.97%) SLA
8 15 (2.59%) PCI DSS
9 14 (2.41%) NIST 800
9 14 (2.41%) SOC 2
10 12 (2.07%) QA
11 11 (1.90%) ISO 31000
12 10 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (1.21%) Data Quality
13 7 (1.21%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.52%) IFRS
15 3 (0.52%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 49 (8.45%) Docker
2 46 (7.93%) Active Directory
3 26 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) GPFS
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
6 1 (0.17%) Lustre
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (10.34%) Terraform
2 58 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 30 (5.17%) Ansible
4 26 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (3.79%) Grafana
6 21 (3.62%) Nessus
7 19 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (2.59%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.72%) SCCM
10 9 (1.55%) Argo
11 8 (1.38%) Puppet
12 5 (0.86%) CASB
12 5 (0.86%) vRealize
13 4 (0.69%) Podman
14 3 (0.52%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.52%) OpenVAS
14 3 (0.52%) OPNET
14 3 (0.52%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.34%) Nexpose
15 2 (0.34%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 114 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.34%) Tenable
3 50 (8.62%) Qualys
4 43 (7.41%) Splunk
5 39 (6.72%) ServiceNow
6 25 (4.31%) Oracle
7 21 (3.62%) CrowdStrike
7 21 (3.62%) Rapid7
7 21 (3.62%) Trend Micro
8 19 (3.28%) Okta
9 16 (2.76%) Google
9 16 (2.76%) SAP
10 13 (2.24%) VMware
11 12 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 12 (2.07%) Remedy
12 10 (1.72%) CyberArk
12 10 (1.72%) Databricks
12 10 (1.72%) Tanium
13 9 (1.55%) IBM
14 8 (1.38%) Cisco
400 Vulnerability Management jobs in England