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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 257 253
Rank change year-on-year +64 -4 +23
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 685 290 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.04% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.15% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 202 203
10th Percentile £393 £314 £413
25th Percentile £485 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £672
90th Percentile £735 £744 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 3
10th Percentile £51.03 £28.92 £51.25
25th Percentile £71.00 £30.34 £53.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £48.22 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.91% -16.14% +29.21%
75th Percentile £83.00 £72.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £102.60 £101.65 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £48.22 £57.50
% change year-on-year +65.91% -16.14% +29.21%

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 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +16 285 £565 +2.73% 367
South East +35 163 £550 +7.84% 185
North of England +30 131 £537 +2.78% 148
Yorkshire +25 68 £588 +9.30% 33
North West -20 51 £506 -1.79% 98
Midlands -22 33 £568 +8.19% 60
South West -27 33 £600 +33.33% 72
West Midlands -19 31 £577 -12.98% 45
East of England -23 30 £511 +13.61% 40
North East - 12 £375 - 17
East Midlands -20 1 - - 15
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 (3.36%) Confluence
2 22 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.63%) Apache
5 12 (1.75%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.73%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.73%) IIS
6 5 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 222 (32.41%) Azure
2 184 (26.86%) AWS
3 71 (10.36%) Entra ID
3 71 (10.36%) GCP
4 64 (9.34%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (8.18%) GitHub
6 32 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 26 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.07%) SaaS
10 20 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (2.77%) OCI
12 17 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (2.48%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.19%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.75%) Datadog
15 9 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.31%) OpenShift
15 9 (1.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 78 (11.39%) Network Security
2 51 (7.45%) Firewall
3 16 (2.34%) WAN
4 14 (2.04%) DNS
5 13 (1.90%) MPLS
6 12 (1.75%) BGP
6 12 (1.75%) IPsec
6 12 (1.75%) LAN
7 9 (1.31%) Broadband
7 9 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.31%) VPN
8 7 (1.02%) HTTP
9 6 (0.88%) Internet
10 5 (0.73%) Intranet
11 4 (0.58%) DHCP
11 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.58%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.58%) MQTT
12 3 (0.44%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.19%) Relational Database
2 12 (1.75%) Big Data
3 11 (1.61%) Power BI
4 9 (1.31%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.58%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.58%) Trino
6 3 (0.44%) Apache Hive
6 3 (0.44%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.44%) Power Query
7 2 (0.29%) Flink
7 2 (0.29%) Metadata
7 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.15%) Redis
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (6.13%) GitLab
2 27 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.65%) JIRA
4 22 (3.21%) Git
5 14 (2.04%) Selenium
6 11 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.31%) Snyk
8 4 (0.58%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.44%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.29%) Flyway
10 2 (0.29%) git-flow
10 2 (0.29%) JUnit
10 2 (0.29%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.29%) Mockito
10 2 (0.29%) MSI
10 2 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.29%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 235 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 130 (18.98%) Finance
3 88 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.13%) Banking
6 29 (4.23%) Aerospace
7 28 (4.09%) Legal
8 20 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.34%) Military
12 15 (2.19%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.61%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.31%) Local Government
15 7 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.88%) Law
17 4 (0.58%) Retail
18 3 (0.44%) Digital Health
18 3 (0.44%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 108 (15.77%) Analyst
2 79 (11.53%) Lead
3 75 (10.95%) Consultant
4 70 (10.22%) Architect
5 61 (8.91%) Senior
6 60 (8.76%) Security Engineer
7 55 (8.03%) Security Analyst
8 50 (7.30%) Security Consultant
9 46 (6.72%) Security Architect
10 32 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 29 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 29 (4.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 29 (4.23%) Security Manager
13 26 (3.80%) Security Specialist
14 23 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.07%) Developer
16 20 (2.92%) DevSecOps Consultant
16 20 (2.92%) Vulnerability Analyst
17 19 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (14.16%) Terraform
2 17 (2.48%) Kafka
2 17 (2.48%) REST
3 16 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (1.90%) Loki
5 7 (1.02%) ARM Templates
6 6 (0.88%) ModSecurity
6 6 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (0.88%) RESTful
7 5 (0.73%) SLSA
8 4 (0.58%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (0.58%) gRPC
8 4 (0.58%) JDBC
8 4 (0.58%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.58%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (0.44%) .NET
9 3 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.44%) JSON
9 3 (0.44%) OAuth
9 3 (0.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 114 (16.64%) Security Posture
2 71 (10.36%) Onboarding
3 61 (8.91%) Cyber Threat
4 56 (8.18%) Operational Technology
5 43 (6.28%) Management Information System
6 40 (5.84%) Cloud Native
7 34 (4.96%) Security Operations Centre
8 24 (3.50%) SCADA
9 22 (3.21%) Cyber Defence
10 21 (3.07%) Cloud Security Posture
11 20 (2.92%) Product Ownership
12 19 (2.77%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.90%) CMDB
13 13 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.75%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.61%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.46%) PKI
17 9 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
17 9 (1.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 98 (14.31%) Windows
2 94 (13.72%) Linux
3 30 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 23 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.48%) Unix
6 16 (2.34%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.02%) AIX
8 6 (0.88%) Solaris
9 5 (0.73%) HPUX
9 5 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.73%) SUSE
9 5 (0.73%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.73%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.29%) Android
12 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (56.35%) Cybersecurity
2 198 (28.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 187 (27.30%) Incident Response
4 178 (25.99%) CI/CD
5 168 (24.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 154 (22.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 151 (22.04%) Risk Management
8 149 (21.75%) Cloud Security
9 145 (21.17%) Security Operations
10 127 (18.54%) SIEM
11 120 (17.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 115 (16.79%) DevSecOps
13 107 (15.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 95 (13.87%) DevOps
14 95 (13.87%) Security Architecture
15 92 (13.43%) Application Security
16 87 (12.70%) Identity Access Management
17 86 (12.55%) Information Security
18 85 (12.41%) Threat Modelling
19 80 (11.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 121 (17.66%) Python
2 82 (11.97%) PowerShell
3 40 (5.84%) Bash
4 33 (4.82%) SQL
5 25 (3.65%) Bicep
6 13 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.46%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.02%) Java
9 6 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.73%) Go
11 4 (0.58%) C#
11 4 (0.58%) Perl
11 4 (0.58%) Rust
11 4 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.29%) PromQL
13 1 (0.15%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 256 (37.37%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 129 (18.83%) CISSP
4 90 (13.14%) CISM
5 69 (10.07%) Cisco Certification
6 67 (9.78%) DV Cleared
7 59 (8.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 53 (7.74%) Degree
9 37 (5.40%) CCSP
10 30 (4.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 20 (2.92%) AWS Certification
12 17 (2.48%) Azure Certification
12 17 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.48%) GIAC
13 16 (2.34%) CRISC
14 15 (2.19%) CISA
15 14 (2.04%) CEH
16 13 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
16 13 (1.90%) OSCP
17 12 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (21.61%) NIST
2 145 (21.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 72 (10.51%) NCSC
4 59 (8.61%) GRC
5 55 (8.03%) GDPR
6 51 (7.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (3.36%) SLA
8 22 (3.21%) NIST 800
9 20 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 19 (2.77%) PCI DSS
11 14 (2.04%) ISO 31000
12 13 (1.90%) QA
13 10 (1.46%) SOC 2
14 8 (1.17%) COBIT
14 8 (1.17%) Data Quality
14 8 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 7 (1.02%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.73%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.73%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (8.76%) Active Directory
2 57 (8.32%) Docker
3 23 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.58%) ISA Server
6 4 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.44%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.44%) Firmware
7 3 (0.44%) HDFS
7 3 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.29%) IAG
8 2 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (14.45%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.13%) Ansible
3 30 (4.38%) Grafana
3 30 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.19%) Argo
5 15 (2.19%) SCCM
6 13 (1.90%) Nessus
7 9 (1.31%) Puppet
8 6 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
9 5 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.73%) vRealize
9 5 (0.73%) VxRail
10 4 (0.58%) CASB
10 4 (0.58%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.58%) OPNET
10 4 (0.58%) Podman
10 4 (0.58%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.44%) QRadar
11 3 (0.44%) systemd
Vendors
1 173 (25.26%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.61%) Qualys
3 46 (6.72%) Tenable
4 39 (5.69%) Splunk
5 35 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 33 (4.82%) VMware
7 32 (4.67%) Oracle
8 29 (4.23%) CrowdStrike
9 22 (3.21%) Google
10 20 (2.92%) Trend Micro
11 19 (2.77%) Rapid7
12 15 (2.19%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.90%) Tanium
14 12 (1.75%) Cisco
15 11 (1.61%) Fortinet
16 10 (1.46%) Databricks
17 9 (1.31%) F5
18 8 (1.17%) Clearswift
19 7 (1.02%) Apple
19 7 (1.02%) Tripwire