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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 233 280
Rank change year-on-year +20 +47 +30
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 486 259 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.08% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.18% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 177 211
10th Percentile £356 £325 £380
25th Percentile £474 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.92% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 0
10th Percentile £48.15 £27.93 -
25th Percentile £55.75 £28.52 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £31.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +114.35% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £48.36 -
90th Percentile £84.60 £57.29 -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £31.49 -
% change year-on-year +158.81% - -

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 35,064 21,889 31,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.30% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,297 14,308 20,582
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 926 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.28 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
% change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -15 185 £550 -0.90% 91
North of England +17 117 £540 -10.00% 65
South East -30 92 £525 -2.51% 85
Yorkshire +4 69 £525 - 21
North West -4 48 £540 +8.00% 24
South West -12 34 £554 +34.30% 51
Midlands -44 30 £500 -20.00% 29
West Midlands -50 24 £438 -33.96% 27
East of England -34 7 £496 -23.65% 30
East Midlands -20 5 £638 +112.50% 2
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 (3.09%) Confluence
2 7 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 157 (32.30%) Azure
2 115 (23.66%) AWS
3 54 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 50 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (9.05%) GCP
6 31 (6.38%) SaaS
7 20 (4.12%) Azure Sentinel
8 19 (3.91%) GitHub
9 15 (3.09%) OpenShift
10 11 (2.26%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.26%) Serverless
11 10 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.85%) IaaS
12 9 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (1.85%) PaaS
12 9 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 6 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (9.47%) Firewall
2 45 (9.26%) Network Security
3 23 (4.73%) DNS
4 14 (2.88%) DHCP
5 12 (2.47%) VPN
6 9 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.44%) WAN
8 6 (1.23%) HTTPS
8 6 (1.23%) LAN
8 6 (1.23%) Wireless
9 5 (1.03%) BGP
9 5 (1.03%) IPsec
9 5 (1.03%) MPLS
10 4 (0.82%) NGFW
10 4 (0.82%) SSL
11 3 (0.62%) Internet
11 3 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.41%) SAN
12 2 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.06%) Power BI
2 5 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.62%) Big Data
4 3 (0.62%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.14%) JIRA
2 14 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.47%) GitLab
4 9 (1.85%) Snyk
5 7 (1.44%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.23%) Git
7 3 (0.62%) AdminStudio
7 3 (0.62%) git-flow
7 3 (0.62%) InstallShield
7 3 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.41%) Flyway
8 2 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.41%) Mockito
9 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.21%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 142 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 98 (20.16%) Finance
3 77 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.76%) Banking
6 25 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (5.14%) Legal
7 20 (4.12%) Aerospace
8 15 (3.09%) Publishing
9 13 (2.67%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.65%) Local Government
12 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.82%) Law
14 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.41%) Arabic Language
15 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (12.76%) Analyst
1 62 (12.76%) Security Engineer
2 50 (10.29%) Architect
3 46 (9.47%) Lead
4 41 (8.44%) Senior
5 35 (7.20%) Consultant
6 34 (7.00%) Security Architect
7 22 (4.53%) Security Analyst
7 22 (4.53%) Security Manager
7 22 (4.53%) Security Specialist
8 20 (4.12%) Security Consultant
9 18 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.09%) Administrator
11 14 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 14 (2.88%) Senior Security Engineer
11 14 (2.88%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 13 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (2.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
13 12 (2.47%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 12 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.29%) SAP Basis
2 13 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.23%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.23%) LDAP
4 5 (1.03%) Kafka
4 5 (1.03%) REST
5 4 (0.82%) ADO
5 4 (0.82%) LangChain
5 4 (0.82%) PyTorch
5 4 (0.82%) RESTful
5 4 (0.82%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.62%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.62%) OAuth
6 3 (0.62%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.62%) SLSA
6 3 (0.62%) Spring
6 3 (0.62%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.41%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.41%) Jasypt
7 2 (0.41%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.58%) Security Posture
2 43 (8.85%) Operational Technology
3 32 (6.58%) Cloud Native
4 31 (6.38%) Onboarding
5 27 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.12%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.91%) Virtual Team
8 17 (3.50%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (3.50%) Taxonomies
9 15 (3.09%) PKI
10 14 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (2.67%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.47%) Data Centre
13 10 (2.06%) SCADA
14 8 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.65%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.44%) IoT
16 6 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
16 6 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (12.76%) Linux
2 56 (11.52%) Windows
3 20 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.70%) Unix
5 14 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.03%) AIX
7 4 (0.82%) HPUX
7 4 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.82%) Solaris
7 4 (0.82%) SUSE
7 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.41%) Rocky
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (43.21%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (23.05%) Incident Response
3 95 (19.55%) CI/CD
4 92 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (18.72%) SIEM
6 89 (18.31%) Cloud Security
7 86 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 84 (17.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 83 (17.08%) Risk Management
10 81 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
11 77 (15.84%) Security Architecture
12 73 (15.02%) Security Operations
13 63 (12.96%) Roadmaps
14 60 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (11.73%) DevSecOps
16 54 (11.11%) DevOps
17 46 (9.47%) Validation
18 44 (9.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
19 42 (8.64%) Application Security
20 41 (8.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 56 (11.52%) Python
2 34 (7.00%) PowerShell
3 20 (4.12%) Bash
4 12 (2.47%) SQL
5 9 (1.85%) Java
6 6 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.03%) Bicep
8 4 (0.82%) Korn
8 4 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.41%) Go
9 2 (0.41%) PromQL
9 2 (0.41%) Rust
10 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.21%) C#
10 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 144 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 96 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 92 (18.93%) CISSP
4 64 (13.17%) Degree
5 59 (12.14%) CISM
6 30 (6.17%) DV Cleared
7 28 (5.76%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 27 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (4.32%) CCSP
10 16 (3.29%) CRISC
10 16 (3.29%) GIAC
11 12 (2.47%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (2.06%) PMP
13 9 (1.85%) CEH
13 9 (1.85%) CESG Certified Professional
13 9 (1.85%) CISA
13 9 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (18.72%) NIST
2 82 (16.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (7.00%) GRC
4 27 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 26 (5.35%) GDPR
6 25 (5.14%) NCSC
7 18 (3.70%) SLA
8 14 (2.88%) NIST 800
9 12 (2.47%) SOC 2
10 11 (2.26%) ISO 31000
10 11 (2.26%) QA
11 10 (2.06%) PCI DSS
12 7 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (1.03%) COBIT
13 5 (1.03%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.82%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (8.23%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.56%) Docker
3 20 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.41%) GPFS
6 2 (0.41%) Lustre
6 2 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.38%) Terraform
3 24 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (4.32%) Ansible
5 20 (4.12%) Nessus
6 12 (2.47%) Grafana
6 12 (2.47%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.44%) SCCM
9 6 (1.23%) Puppet
10 5 (1.03%) CASB
11 3 (0.62%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.62%) Podman
11 3 (0.62%) SELinux
11 3 (0.62%) vRealize
12 2 (0.41%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.41%) QRadar
12 2 (0.41%) SCOM
12 2 (0.41%) WSUS
12 2 (0.41%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 79 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.29%) Tenable
3 39 (8.02%) Qualys
3 39 (8.02%) Splunk
4 26 (5.35%) ServiceNow
5 23 (4.73%) SAP
6 22 (4.53%) Okta
7 13 (2.67%) VMware
8 12 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (2.47%) Remedy
9 11 (2.26%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.26%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.26%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.65%) Databricks
10 8 (1.65%) Google
10 8 (1.65%) Oracle
11 7 (1.44%) IBM
12 6 (1.23%) Cisco
12 6 (1.23%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.23%) Trend Micro