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

 6 months to
29 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 256 280
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 +36
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 434 244 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.00% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.10% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 166 211
10th Percentile £335 £359 £388
25th Percentile £474 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% -3.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 0
10th Percentile £53.20 - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £81.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.54% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 -
90th Percentile £84.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £54.50 -
% change year-on-year +49.54% - -

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 34,200 22,151 32,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.97% 91.14% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,858 14,510 20,977
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 918 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -21 160 £550 -4.35% 66
North of England +20 113 £540 +8.00% 61
South East -58 71 £525 -4.55% 76
Yorkshire +1 65 £533 - 20
North West +5 48 £540 +20.00% 25
Midlands -41 35 £500 -13.04% 21
South West -22 29 £535 +29.70% 39
West Midlands -41 29 £500 -20.00% 17
East of England -34 7 £480 -35.57% 35
East Midlands -34 5 £638 +112.50% 4
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 15 (3.46%) Confluence
2 9 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 142 (32.72%) Azure
2 111 (25.58%) AWS
3 42 (9.68%) Entra ID
4 40 (9.22%) GCP
4 40 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (5.76%) SaaS
6 15 (3.46%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (3.00%) GitHub
8 11 (2.53%) OpenShift
9 10 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.30%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.30%) Serverless
10 8 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.06%) Firewall
2 44 (10.14%) Network Security
3 23 (5.30%) DNS
4 14 (3.23%) VPN
5 13 (3.00%) DHCP
6 8 (1.84%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.38%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.38%) Wireless
8 4 (0.92%) Internet
8 4 (0.92%) SSL
9 3 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.69%) SAN
9 3 (0.69%) WAN
10 2 (0.46%) LAN
10 2 (0.46%) NGFW
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.23%) DKIM
11 1 (0.23%) DMARC
11 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.30%) Power BI
2 4 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.69%) Big Data
3 3 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.76%) JIRA
2 9 (2.07%) Snyk
3 8 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.61%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) Git
5 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.46%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.46%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.23%) git-flow
7 1 (0.23%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 127 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 81 (18.66%) Finance
3 70 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.22%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (5.30%) Banking
6 23 (5.30%) Legal
7 19 (4.38%) Aerospace
8 15 (3.46%) Publishing
9 8 (1.84%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.38%) Local Government
12 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.69%) Military
14 3 (0.69%) Retail
15 2 (0.46%) Arabic Language
15 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 59 (13.59%) Security Engineer
2 57 (13.13%) Analyst
3 50 (11.52%) Architect
4 41 (9.45%) Lead
5 40 (9.22%) Senior
6 34 (7.83%) Security Architect
7 25 (5.76%) Consultant
8 23 (5.30%) Security Manager
9 19 (4.38%) Security Analyst
10 18 (4.15%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.69%) Administrator
12 15 (3.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 14 (3.23%) Security Consultant
14 13 (3.00%) Project Manager
14 13 (3.00%) Senior Security Engineer
14 13 (3.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
15 12 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (2.76%) Security Officer
15 12 (2.76%) Vulnerability Analyst
16 11 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.69%) SAP Basis
2 9 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.38%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.38%) LDAP
4 4 (0.92%) .NET
4 4 (0.92%) ADO
4 4 (0.92%) Kafka
4 4 (0.92%) LangChain
4 4 (0.92%) PyTorch
4 4 (0.92%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.69%) OAuth
5 3 (0.69%) OpenID
5 3 (0.69%) REST
5 3 (0.69%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.46%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.46%) Middleware
6 2 (0.46%) Node.js
6 2 (0.46%) SAML
6 2 (0.46%) SOAP
6 2 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 32 (7.37%) Cloud Native
3 29 (6.68%) Management Information System
4 28 (6.45%) Operational Technology
5 26 (5.99%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.15%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.92%) Taxonomies
8 15 (3.46%) Cyber Threat
8 15 (3.46%) PKI
9 14 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 12 (2.76%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (2.53%) Product Ownership
13 9 (2.07%) Data Centre
13 9 (2.07%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.61%) IoT
16 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
17 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.37%) Linux
2 42 (9.68%) Windows
3 19 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.53%) Unix
6 4 (0.92%) AIX
6 4 (0.92%) HPUX
6 4 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (0.92%) Solaris
6 4 (0.92%) SUSE
6 4 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.46%) Rocky
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (41.71%) Cybersecurity
2 101 (23.27%) Incident Response
3 85 (19.59%) Cloud Security
4 79 (18.20%) SIEM
5 76 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (16.59%) CI/CD
7 71 (16.36%) Threat Modelling
8 67 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 66 (15.21%) Risk Management
10 64 (14.75%) Security Operations
11 62 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 60 (13.82%) Security Architecture
13 54 (12.44%) Roadmaps
14 49 (11.29%) DevSecOps
15 47 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 43 (9.91%) Agile
16 43 (9.91%) Identity Access Management
17 42 (9.68%) DevOps
17 42 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (9.68%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (11.52%) Python
2 26 (5.99%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.38%) Bash
4 11 (2.53%) SQL
5 7 (1.61%) Java
6 4 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.92%) Korn
6 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.69%) Bicep
8 2 (0.46%) Go
9 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.23%) C#
9 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) Rust
9 1 (0.23%) Scala
9 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 123 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 80 (18.43%) CISSP
4 54 (12.44%) Degree
5 49 (11.29%) CISM
6 27 (6.22%) CompTIA Security+
7 21 (4.84%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (3.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 14 (3.23%) CCSP
11 13 (3.00%) GIAC
11 13 (3.00%) PMP
12 12 (2.76%) AWS Certification
13 11 (2.53%) CREST Certified
13 11 (2.53%) PMI Certification
14 10 (2.30%) Azure Certification
14 10 (2.30%) CEH
14 10 (2.30%) CISA
14 10 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (17.74%) NIST
2 66 (15.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (6.91%) GRC
4 19 (4.38%) GDPR
4 19 (4.38%) NCSC
5 16 (3.69%) NIST 800
6 15 (3.46%) SLA
7 10 (2.30%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.30%) SOC 2
8 9 (2.07%) QA
9 8 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.15%) COBIT
10 5 (1.15%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.69%) IFRS
11 3 (0.69%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 32 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.07%) Docker
3 17 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.46%) GPFS
6 2 (0.46%) Lustre
6 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.53%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (5.53%) Terraform
3 18 (4.15%) Nessus
4 12 (2.76%) Ansible
4 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.38%) SCCM
6 5 (1.15%) CASB
6 5 (1.15%) Grafana
6 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.69%) OpenVAS
7 3 (0.69%) Puppet
7 3 (0.69%) SELinux
8 2 (0.46%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.46%) Podman
8 2 (0.46%) QRadar
8 2 (0.46%) WSUS
9 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 68 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.83%) Tenable
3 37 (8.53%) Splunk
4 35 (8.06%) Qualys
5 26 (5.99%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.30%) SAP
7 22 (5.07%) Okta
8 15 (3.46%) Rapid7
9 14 (3.23%) CyberArk
10 12 (2.76%) Remedy
11 10 (2.30%) Oracle
11 10 (2.30%) VMware
12 8 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.84%) Databricks
12 8 (1.84%) Google
13 7 (1.61%) IBM
14 6 (1.38%) Cisco
14 6 (1.38%) ForeScout
14 6 (1.38%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.38%) Trend Micro
260 Vulnerability Management jobs in England