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

 6 months to
1 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 254 280
Rank change year-on-year +20 +26 +36
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 446 246 289
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.01% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.11% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 164 213
10th Percentile £338 £358 £388
25th Percentile £469 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.79% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 -
90th Percentile £84.75 - -
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 34,314 22,202 32,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.20% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,947 14,537 21,107
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 918 2,248
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.69 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -3 162 £550 -5.17% 82
North of England +26 115 £540 +8.00% 66
South East -44 79 £525 -4.55% 89
Yorkshire +10 67 £520 - 22
North West -3 48 £540 +8.00% 28
Midlands -54 35 £500 -13.04% 26
South West -19 29 £535 +25.88% 48
West Midlands -45 29 £500 -20.00% 22
East of England -25 7 £480 -35.57% 42
East Midlands -26 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 (3.36%) Confluence
2 9 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 149 (33.41%) Azure
2 113 (25.34%) AWS
3 47 (10.54%) Entra ID
4 46 (10.31%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (9.19%) GCP
6 27 (6.05%) SaaS
7 15 (3.36%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (2.91%) GitHub
9 11 (2.47%) OpenShift
10 10 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.24%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.24%) Serverless
11 8 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.35%) IaaS
12 6 (1.35%) PaaS
13 5 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (10.54%) Firewall
2 45 (10.09%) Network Security
3 23 (5.16%) DNS
4 13 (2.91%) DHCP
4 13 (2.91%) VPN
5 8 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.35%) HTTPS
6 6 (1.35%) Wireless
7 4 (0.90%) Internet
7 4 (0.90%) SSL
8 3 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.67%) SAN
8 3 (0.67%) WAN
9 2 (0.45%) LAN
9 2 (0.45%) NGFW
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.22%) DKIM
10 1 (0.22%) DMARC
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.24%) Power BI
2 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.90%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.67%) Big Data
3 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.61%) JIRA
2 9 (2.02%) Snyk
3 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.57%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) Git
5 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.45%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.45%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.22%) git-flow
7 1 (0.22%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 133 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 82 (18.39%) Finance
3 69 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.05%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (5.61%) Banking
7 23 (5.16%) Legal
8 19 (4.26%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.36%) Publishing
10 10 (2.24%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.35%) Local Government
13 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Military
15 3 (0.67%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.67%) Retail
16 2 (0.45%) Arabic Language
16 2 (0.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 59 (13.23%) Security Engineer
2 57 (12.78%) Analyst
3 51 (11.43%) Architect
4 44 (9.87%) Lead
5 40 (8.97%) Senior
6 34 (7.62%) Security Architect
7 27 (6.05%) Consultant
8 23 (5.16%) Security Manager
9 19 (4.26%) Security Analyst
10 18 (4.04%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.59%) Administrator
11 16 (3.59%) Security Consultant
12 15 (3.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 14 (3.14%) Security Specialist
14 13 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.91%) Project Manager
14 13 (2.91%) Senior Security Engineer
14 13 (2.91%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
15 12 (2.69%) Security Officer
15 12 (2.69%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.59%) SAP Basis
2 9 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.35%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.35%) LDAP
4 4 (0.90%) .NET
4 4 (0.90%) ADO
4 4 (0.90%) Kafka
4 4 (0.90%) LangChain
4 4 (0.90%) PyTorch
4 4 (0.90%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.67%) OAuth
5 3 (0.67%) OpenID
5 3 (0.67%) REST
5 3 (0.67%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.45%) Middleware
6 2 (0.45%) Node.js
6 2 (0.45%) SAML
6 2 (0.45%) SLSA
6 2 (0.45%) SOAP
6 2 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (13.90%) Security Posture
2 37 (8.30%) Operational Technology
3 31 (6.95%) Cloud Native
4 30 (6.73%) Management Information System
5 27 (6.05%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.04%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.81%) Taxonomies
8 16 (3.59%) Cyber Defence
9 15 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
9 15 (3.36%) PKI
10 13 (2.91%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (2.47%) Product Ownership
12 10 (2.24%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.79%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.57%) IoT
15 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (1.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 50 (11.21%) Linux
2 45 (10.09%) Windows
3 18 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.36%) Unix
5 12 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.90%) AIX
6 4 (0.90%) HPUX
6 4 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (0.90%) Solaris
6 4 (0.90%) SUSE
6 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.45%) Rocky
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (43.27%) Cybersecurity
2 103 (23.09%) Incident Response
3 86 (19.28%) Cloud Security
4 84 (18.83%) SIEM
5 80 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (17.49%) CI/CD
7 76 (17.04%) Threat Modelling
8 74 (16.59%) Risk Management
9 71 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 68 (15.25%) Security Architecture
11 65 (14.57%) Security Operations
12 62 (13.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 55 (12.33%) Roadmaps
14 53 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 50 (11.21%) DevSecOps
16 44 (9.87%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
17 43 (9.64%) Agile
17 43 (9.64%) Identity Access Management
18 42 (9.42%) Computer Science
18 42 (9.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 50 (11.21%) Python
2 26 (5.83%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.26%) Bash
4 11 (2.47%) SQL
5 7 (1.57%) Java
6 4 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.90%) Korn
6 4 (0.90%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.67%) Bicep
8 2 (0.45%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.22%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Rust
9 1 (0.22%) Scala
9 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 130 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 90 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 86 (19.28%) CISSP
4 59 (13.23%) Degree
5 54 (12.11%) CISM
6 27 (6.05%) CompTIA Security+
7 21 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (4.71%) DV Cleared
8 20 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (3.81%) CCSP
10 16 (3.59%) GIAC
11 13 (2.91%) CRISC
11 13 (2.91%) PMP
12 11 (2.47%) AWS Certification
12 11 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (2.47%) CREST Certified
12 11 (2.47%) PMI Certification
13 10 (2.24%) CEH
13 10 (2.24%) CISA
13 10 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (18.61%) NIST
2 73 (16.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (6.73%) GRC
4 21 (4.71%) NCSC
5 18 (4.04%) GDPR
6 16 (3.59%) NIST 800
6 16 (3.59%) SLA
7 15 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (2.24%) SOC 2
9 9 (2.02%) PCI DSS
9 9 (2.02%) QA
10 6 (1.35%) ISO 31000
11 5 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (1.12%) COBIT
11 5 (1.12%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.67%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.67%) IFRS
12 3 (0.67%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 35 (7.85%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.71%) Docker
3 18 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.45%) GPFS
6 2 (0.45%) Lustre
6 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.38%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (5.38%) Terraform
3 18 (4.04%) Nessus
4 12 (2.69%) Ansible
5 11 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.35%) SCCM
7 5 (1.12%) CASB
7 5 (1.12%) Grafana
7 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.67%) OpenVAS
8 3 (0.67%) Puppet
8 3 (0.67%) SELinux
9 2 (0.45%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.45%) Podman
9 2 (0.45%) QRadar
9 2 (0.45%) WSUS
10 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.54%) Tenable
3 37 (8.30%) Splunk
4 35 (7.85%) Qualys
5 26 (5.83%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.16%) SAP
7 22 (4.93%) Okta
8 15 (3.36%) Rapid7
9 14 (3.14%) CyberArk
10 12 (2.69%) Remedy
11 10 (2.24%) Oracle
11 10 (2.24%) VMware
12 8 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.79%) Databricks
12 8 (1.79%) Google
13 7 (1.57%) IBM
14 6 (1.35%) Cisco
14 6 (1.35%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.35%) Tanium
14 6 (1.35%) Trend Micro
311 Vulnerability Management jobs in England