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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 278 265
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 +69
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 328 221 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 0.84% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.93% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 138 251
10th Percentile £358 £396 £406
25th Percentile £428 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £613 £673 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -9.57% -2.13% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 20
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.94 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +2.04% -24.90%
75th Percentile £57.25 - £67.50
90th Percentile £60.25 - £67.63
UK median hourly rate £55.75 £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +11.50% +2.04% -24.90%

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 28,832 23,662 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.43% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,449 14,467 21,997
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £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 1,786 760 1,829
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +10 133 £575 -4.17% 36
North of England +5 75 £450 -25.00% 31
Yorkshire -4 47 £494 - 12
South East -30 45 £475 -9.52% 45
North West -9 28 £450 -29.41% 14
South West -9 24 £520 +22.35% 12
Midlands -40 21 £500 +51.52% 15
West Midlands -29 17 £500 +51.52% 7
East of England -10 15 £465 +9.41% 14
East Midlands -30 4 £419 - 8
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 (7.62%) Confluence
2 8 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 116 (35.37%) Azure
2 97 (29.57%) AWS
3 39 (11.89%) GCP
4 37 (11.28%) Entra ID
5 35 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.18%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (4.88%) SaaS
8 15 (4.57%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (3.05%) Serverless
10 7 (2.13%) GitHub
10 7 (2.13%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.83%) IaaS
12 5 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.52%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.52%) PaaS
12 5 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.22%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 54 (16.46%) Firewall
2 42 (12.80%) Network Security
3 15 (4.57%) VPN
4 13 (3.96%) DNS
5 11 (3.35%) DHCP
6 9 (2.74%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.44%) Wireless
8 6 (1.83%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.83%) WAN
9 5 (1.52%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.52%) LAN
10 4 (1.22%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.61%) Internet
12 2 (0.61%) IPsec
12 2 (0.61%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.61%) SAN
12 2 (0.61%) SMTP
12 2 (0.61%) SSL
12 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.13%) Power BI
2 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.30%) DB2
4 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (9.45%) JIRA
2 7 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.22%) Snyk
4 3 (0.91%) GitLab
5 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.61%) Git
5 2 (0.61%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
General
1 91 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.68%) Finance
3 49 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.88%) Banking
7 14 (4.27%) Legal
8 8 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.44%) Publishing
9 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.22%) Military
10 4 (1.22%) Retail
11 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.61%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.61%) Local Government
12 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (14.94%) Architect
2 46 (14.02%) Analyst
3 42 (12.80%) Security Architect
4 39 (11.89%) Senior
5 38 (11.59%) Security Engineer
6 24 (7.32%) Security Analyst
7 20 (6.10%) Lead
8 17 (5.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 16 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.27%) Administrator
10 14 (4.27%) Security Manager
10 14 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.96%) Consultant
12 11 (3.35%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.35%) Security Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.05%) Security Officer
13 10 (3.05%) Tester
14 9 (2.74%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 8 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.18%) OAuth
2 16 (4.88%) SAML
3 9 (2.74%) SAP Basis
4 6 (1.83%) OpenID
5 5 (1.52%) .NET
5 5 (1.52%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.52%) JWT
6 4 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.91%) Kafka
7 3 (0.91%) Middleware
7 3 (0.91%) REST
8 2 (0.61%) ADO
8 2 (0.61%) CSS
8 2 (0.61%) HTML
8 2 (0.61%) Node.js
8 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.61%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.61%) SOAP
8 2 (0.61%) Web Services
8 2 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.20%) Security Posture
2 26 (7.93%) Cyber Threat
3 23 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.01%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.71%) Management Information System
5 17 (5.18%) Security Operations Centre
6 12 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (3.35%) Operational Technology
8 10 (3.05%) Taxonomies
9 8 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.44%) PKI
10 6 (1.83%) IoT
11 5 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.22%) BYOD
12 4 (1.22%) CSOC
12 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.85%) Windows
2 30 (9.15%) Linux
3 22 (6.71%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.35%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.05%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.83%) Unix
7 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.61%) Rocky
8 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (47.56%) Cybersecurity
2 119 (36.28%) Incident Response
3 84 (25.61%) Security Operations
4 79 (24.09%) Cloud Security
5 77 (23.48%) SIEM
6 58 (17.68%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 52 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (15.55%) Threat Intelligence
9 48 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
10 46 (14.02%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 45 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (13.41%) CI/CD
12 44 (13.41%) Risk Management
13 42 (12.80%) DevSecOps
14 41 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 37 (11.28%) Threat Modelling
16 35 (10.67%) Agile
17 34 (10.37%) Computer Science
17 34 (10.37%) Penetration Testing
17 34 (10.37%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.59%) Python
2 24 (7.32%) PowerShell
3 20 (6.10%) Bash
4 7 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.83%) Java
5 6 (1.83%) SQL
6 5 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.61%) Bicep
7 2 (0.61%) Go
8 1 (0.30%) Rust
8 1 (0.30%) Scala
8 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 95 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 73 (22.26%) CISSP
4 47 (14.33%) CISM
4 47 (14.33%) Degree
5 20 (6.10%) CompTIA Security+
6 18 (5.49%) CEH
7 16 (4.88%) Master's Degree
7 16 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 13 (3.96%) GIAC
9 12 (3.66%) DV Cleared
10 11 (3.35%) Azure Certification
10 11 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.35%) CREST Certified
10 11 (3.35%) GCIH
11 10 (3.05%) PhD
12 9 (2.74%) AWS Certification
12 9 (2.74%) CCSP
12 9 (2.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (20.73%) NIST
2 64 (19.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (6.10%) GDPR
4 19 (5.79%) NCSC
5 14 (4.27%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.66%) GRC
7 9 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.74%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.52%) COBIT
9 4 (1.22%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.22%) PMO
9 4 (1.22%) SLA
9 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.61%) GxP
11 2 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.61%) PSD2
11 2 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 22 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.49%) Docker
3 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.61%) GPFS
4 2 (0.61%) Lustre
4 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.61%) vSphere
5 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.01%) SCCM
3 20 (6.10%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (4.88%) Nessus
4 16 (4.88%) Terraform
5 13 (3.96%) Ansible
6 11 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.74%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.44%) Norton AntiVirus
9 5 (1.52%) WSUS
10 3 (0.91%) Grafana
10 3 (0.91%) Nexpose
10 3 (0.91%) QRadar
11 2 (0.61%) CASB
11 2 (0.61%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.61%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.61%) Podman
11 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.61%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.61%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 76 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.76%) Qualys
3 29 (8.84%) Tenable
4 24 (7.32%) Splunk
5 15 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.27%) Rapid7
7 13 (3.96%) CyberArk
8 11 (3.35%) Okta
8 11 (3.35%) SAP
9 10 (3.05%) BiZZdesign
9 10 (3.05%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (3.05%) Google
10 9 (2.74%) Centrify
10 9 (2.74%) VMware
11 8 (2.44%) McAfee
11 8 (2.44%) Symantec
12 7 (2.13%) Apple
12 7 (2.13%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.83%) Cisco
14 5 (1.52%) Oracle