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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 292 276
Rank change year-on-year +49 -16 +39
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 396 196 299
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 0.78% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.86% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 118 226
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £442 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -4.53%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 11
10th Percentile £41.94 - -
25th Percentile £47.10 £45.75 £42.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £54.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% +22.47% -31.80%
75th Percentile £82.25 £63.25 £57.13
90th Percentile £84.75 - £67.50
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year +23.85% +22.47% -31.80%

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 31,295 22,746 32,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.36% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,032 14,434 21,722
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £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 1,939 776 2,084
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.38 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +24 154 £579 -7.36% 58
North of England +25 107 £516 +3.10% 44
Yorkshire +1 66 £494 - 20
South East -22 58 £475 -11.63% 64
North West -6 41 £575 +27.78% 20
Midlands -44 28 £500 -24.53% 30
South West -18 23 £516 +14.61% 18
West Midlands -41 22 £500 -24.53% 17
East of England -19 14 £480 -14.67% 28
East Midlands -27 6 £638 - 12
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 31 (7.83%) Confluence
2 8 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 136 (34.34%) Azure
2 112 (28.28%) AWS
3 44 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 40 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (9.85%) GCP
6 20 (5.05%) SaaS
7 19 (4.80%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (2.53%) OpenShift
9 10 (2.53%) Serverless
10 8 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (1.77%) GitHub
11 7 (1.77%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.52%) IaaS
12 6 (1.52%) PaaS
13 5 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 66 (16.67%) Firewall
2 48 (12.12%) Network Security
3 19 (4.80%) DNS
4 15 (3.79%) VPN
5 13 (3.28%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.03%) DHCP
7 9 (2.27%) Wireless
8 6 (1.52%) HTTPS
8 6 (1.52%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.52%) SSL
9 5 (1.26%) Internet
9 5 (1.26%) WAN
10 4 (1.01%) LAN
11 3 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.76%) SAN
12 2 (0.51%) NAS
12 2 (0.51%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.25%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.77%) Power BI
2 4 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.76%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.25%) DB2
5 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (9.34%) JIRA
2 8 (2.02%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.02%) Snyk
3 3 (0.76%) GitLab
3 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.51%) Git
4 2 (0.51%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.25%) git-flow
5 1 (0.25%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 108 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.93%) Finance
3 64 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.04%) Legal
7 15 (3.79%) Banking
8 11 (2.78%) Publishing
9 10 (2.53%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.01%) Military
13 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Retail
14 3 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Local Government
15 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (14.14%) Security Engineer
2 55 (13.89%) Architect
3 53 (13.38%) Analyst
4 44 (11.11%) Senior
5 42 (10.61%) Security Architect
6 29 (7.32%) Lead
7 24 (6.06%) Security Analyst
8 20 (5.05%) Consultant
9 19 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 18 (4.55%) Administrator
11 16 (4.04%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.79%) Security Manager
13 13 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 10 (2.53%) Security Consultant
15 10 (2.53%) Security Officer
15 10 (2.53%) Tester
15 10 (2.53%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
16 9 (2.27%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.55%) OAuth
2 17 (4.29%) SAML
3 12 (3.03%) SAP Basis
4 8 (2.02%) OpenID
5 6 (1.52%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.52%) LDAP
6 5 (1.26%) .NET
6 5 (1.26%) JWT
7 4 (1.01%) Kafka
7 4 (1.01%) LangChain
7 4 (1.01%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.01%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.01%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.76%) Middleware
8 3 (0.76%) REST
8 3 (0.76%) Web Services
9 2 (0.51%) ADO
9 2 (0.51%) CSS
9 2 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.65%) Security Posture
2 35 (8.84%) Cloud Native
3 30 (7.58%) Onboarding
4 28 (7.07%) Management Information System
5 21 (5.30%) Cyber Threat
6 17 (4.29%) Operational Technology
7 14 (3.54%) Cloud Security Posture
7 14 (3.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 13 (3.28%) Cyber Defence
8 13 (3.28%) Taxonomies
9 12 (3.03%) PKI
10 9 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.02%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.77%) IoT
13 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.52%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.26%) BYOD
14 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.37%) Windows
2 42 (10.61%) Linux
3 20 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.53%) Unix
5 9 (2.27%) Mac OS
5 9 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.02%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.51%) Rocky
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (43.43%) Cybersecurity
2 125 (31.57%) Incident Response
3 94 (23.74%) Cloud Security
4 85 (21.46%) Security Operations
5 84 (21.21%) SIEM
6 69 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (15.40%) CI/CD
7 61 (15.40%) Risk Management
8 57 (14.39%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
9 55 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
10 51 (12.88%) Threat Intelligence
11 50 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (12.37%) DevSecOps
12 49 (12.37%) Threat Modelling
13 45 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (10.61%) Roadmaps
14 42 (10.61%) Security Architecture
15 41 (10.35%) Computer Science
15 41 (10.35%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 41 (10.35%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 54 (13.64%) Python
2 29 (7.32%) PowerShell
3 25 (6.31%) Bash
4 13 (3.28%) SQL
5 7 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.52%) Java
7 3 (0.76%) Bicep
7 3 (0.76%) Go
7 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.25%) Korn
8 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.25%) Rust
8 1 (0.25%) Scala
8 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 115 (29.04%) Security Cleared
2 94 (23.74%) SC Cleared
3 81 (20.45%) CISSP
4 60 (15.15%) Degree
5 49 (12.37%) CISM
6 26 (6.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (4.80%) Master's Degree
8 16 (4.04%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (3.79%) CEH
9 15 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (3.28%) GIAC
11 12 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (3.03%) CCSP
12 11 (2.78%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.78%) CREST Certified
12 11 (2.78%) DV Cleared
13 10 (2.53%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (18.69%) NIST
2 66 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.81%) GDPR
4 21 (5.30%) NCSC
5 20 (5.05%) GRC
6 16 (4.04%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.78%) NIST 800
8 10 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (2.02%) SLA
10 7 (1.77%) HIPAA
10 7 (1.77%) SOC 2
11 6 (1.52%) PMO
11 6 (1.52%) QA
12 5 (1.26%) COBIT
13 4 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.76%) GxP
14 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.51%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.51%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.30%) Docker
3 9 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.51%) GPFS
5 2 (0.51%) Lustre
5 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (4.55%) Nessus
3 18 (4.55%) SCCM
3 18 (4.55%) Terraform
4 14 (3.54%) Ansible
5 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (2.02%) Norton AntiVirus
7 7 (1.77%) CASB
8 4 (1.01%) Grafana
8 4 (1.01%) WSUS
9 3 (0.76%) OpenVAS
9 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.76%) QRadar
10 2 (0.51%) Argo
10 2 (0.51%) Istio
10 2 (0.51%) Podman
10 2 (0.51%) SCOM
10 2 (0.51%) SELinux
Vendors
1 84 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.86%) Tenable
3 37 (9.34%) Splunk
4 34 (8.59%) Qualys
5 27 (6.82%) ServiceNow
6 21 (5.30%) CyberArk
7 18 (4.55%) Okta
8 17 (4.29%) Rapid7
8 17 (4.29%) SAP
9 11 (2.78%) Cisco
9 11 (2.78%) Google
10 10 (2.53%) BiZZdesign
11 9 (2.27%) Centrify
11 9 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (2.02%) McAfee
12 8 (2.02%) Symantec
12 8 (2.02%) VMware
13 7 (1.77%) Apple
13 7 (1.77%) IBM
13 7 (1.77%) Remedy