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 3 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 240 207
Rank change year-on-year +54 -33 +19
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 360 130 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 0.89% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 0.99% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 88 129
10th Percentile £363 £371 £448
25th Percentile £445 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £740 £741 £780
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £569
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.69% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 5 3
10th Percentile £68.36 £36.67 £51.25
25th Percentile - £45.75 £53.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% - -11.54%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £103.30 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +39.13% - -11.54%

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 19,910 13,166 14,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 90.25% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,109 8,363 8,706
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,358 858 553
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.58 £18.47 £17.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -32.93% -11.12%
75th Percentile £67.17 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.00 £74.69
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +53.96% -28.14% -14.35%

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 3 months to 28 August 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 3 months to 28 August 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 3 months to 28 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 154 £563 +7.14% 322
South East +19 86 £550 +4.76% 144
North of England -8 65 £540 +0.47% 100
Yorkshire +3 28 £550 +2.33% 35
North West -26 28 £572 +8.86% 48
East of England +4 23 £510 +45.92% 44
South West -23 18 £588 - 73
Midlands -20 13 £568 -5.33% 50
West Midlands -17 12 £568 -21.66% 32
North East - 9 £375 - 17
East Midlands -8 1 - - 18
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 20 (3.09%) Apache Spark
1 20 (3.09%) Confluence
2 17 (2.62%) Apache
2 17 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.85%) Jupyter
4 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.62%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 215 (33.18%) Azure
2 164 (25.31%) AWS
3 71 (10.96%) Entra ID
4 66 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (10.03%) GCP
6 56 (8.64%) GitHub
7 34 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.86%) Azure Sentinel
10 23 (3.55%) SaaS
11 20 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (2.93%) OCI
13 17 (2.62%) Power Platform
14 16 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (2.16%) Amazon S3
16 13 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
17 12 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (1.54%) Datadog
18 10 (1.54%) OpenShift
18 10 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.11%) Network Security
2 40 (6.17%) Firewall
3 17 (2.62%) DNS
4 15 (2.31%) WAN
5 13 (2.01%) MPLS
6 12 (1.85%) BGP
6 12 (1.85%) IPsec
6 12 (1.85%) LAN
7 11 (1.70%) VPN
8 9 (1.39%) Broadband
9 8 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.77%) Intranet
11 4 (0.62%) DHCP
11 4 (0.62%) Internet
11 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.62%) MQTT
12 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.46%) NGFW
12 3 (0.46%) VLAN
13 2 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.01%) Power BI
2 10 (1.54%) Big Data
3 8 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.77%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.46%) Trino
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.31%) Power Query
8 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (6.64%) GitLab
2 29 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.86%) JIRA
4 11 (1.70%) SonarQube
5 10 (1.54%) Git
6 6 (0.93%) Snyk
7 4 (0.62%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.46%) AdminStudio
8 3 (0.46%) InstallShield
8 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.31%) Flyway
9 2 (0.31%) git-flow
9 2 (0.31%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.31%) Mockito
9 2 (0.31%) MSI
9 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.31%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 211 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 133 (20.52%) Finance
3 83 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (11.88%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.86%) Banking
6 34 (5.25%) Aerospace
7 25 (3.86%) Legal
8 21 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.62%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.70%) Military
11 11 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.39%) Local Government
13 6 (0.93%) Law
13 6 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.77%) Publishing
15 4 (0.62%) Retail
16 3 (0.46%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 101 (15.59%) Analyst
2 83 (12.81%) Lead
3 66 (10.19%) Consultant
4 54 (8.33%) Senior
5 53 (8.18%) Architect
6 52 (8.02%) Security Engineer
7 45 (6.94%) Security Analyst
8 42 (6.48%) Security Consultant
9 36 (5.56%) Security Architect
10 27 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 27 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 27 (4.17%) Security Manager
11 26 (4.01%) Security Specialist
12 23 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 22 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.40%) Vulnerability Analyst
14 21 (3.24%) Developer
15 18 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 18 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 18 (2.78%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (14.35%) Terraform
2 15 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (2.01%) Loki
3 13 (2.01%) REST
4 9 (1.39%) Kafka
5 8 (1.23%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.08%) RESTful
7 6 (0.93%) ModSecurity
8 5 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.77%) SLSA
9 4 (0.62%) .NET
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.62%) gRPC
9 4 (0.62%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.62%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (0.62%) SAP Basis
10 3 (0.46%) JDBC
10 3 (0.46%) JSON
10 3 (0.46%) OAuth
10 3 (0.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 103 (15.90%) Security Posture
2 54 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 53 (8.18%) Cyber Threat
4 50 (7.72%) Operational Technology
5 41 (6.33%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 33 (5.09%) Management Information System
8 20 (3.09%) Cloud Security Posture
8 20 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
9 17 (2.62%) Virtual Team
10 16 (2.47%) Product Ownership
11 14 (2.16%) CMDB
11 14 (2.16%) SCADA
12 12 (1.85%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.39%) Social Media
15 8 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
15 8 (1.23%) NHS
15 8 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (13.12%) Windows
2 75 (11.57%) Linux
3 22 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.31%) Mac OS
4 15 (2.31%) Unix
5 6 (0.93%) AIX
6 5 (0.77%) HPUX
6 5 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (0.77%) Solaris
6 5 (0.77%) SUSE
6 5 (0.77%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.31%) Android
8 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (53.40%) Cybersecurity
2 188 (29.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 179 (27.62%) Incident Response
4 156 (24.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 155 (23.92%) CI/CD
6 138 (21.30%) Cloud Security
7 134 (20.68%) Security Operations
8 133 (20.52%) Risk Management
9 131 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 116 (17.90%) SIEM
11 107 (16.51%) DevSecOps
12 100 (15.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 95 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 89 (13.73%) DevOps
15 88 (13.58%) Security Architecture
16 85 (13.12%) Threat Modelling
17 75 (11.57%) Identity Access Management
17 75 (11.57%) Information Security
18 69 (10.65%) Application Security
18 69 (10.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 103 (15.90%) Python
2 80 (12.35%) PowerShell
3 40 (6.17%) Bash
4 25 (3.86%) Bicep
5 17 (2.62%) SQL
6 12 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.08%) Java
8 7 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.62%) C#
9 4 (0.62%) Go
9 4 (0.62%) Rust
10 3 (0.46%) Korn
10 3 (0.46%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.31%) PromQL
12 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 235 (36.27%) Security Cleared
2 169 (26.08%) SC Cleared
3 116 (17.90%) CISSP
4 81 (12.50%) CISM
5 57 (8.80%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (8.02%) Degree
6 52 (8.02%) DV Cleared
7 49 (7.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 28 (4.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 27 (4.17%) CCSP
10 19 (2.93%) AWS Certification
11 18 (2.78%) Azure Certification
12 17 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (2.47%) CEH
14 14 (2.16%) GIAC
14 14 (2.16%) PMP
15 13 (2.01%) CRISC
16 12 (1.85%) PMI Certification
17 11 (1.70%) CISA
17 11 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (20.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 126 (19.44%) NIST
3 59 (9.10%) NCSC
4 52 (8.02%) GDPR
5 46 (7.10%) GRC
6 45 (6.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (4.32%) SLA
8 21 (3.24%) NIST 800
9 19 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 18 (2.78%) QA
11 15 (2.31%) PCI DSS
12 9 (1.39%) COBIT
12 9 (1.39%) Data Quality
12 9 (1.39%) ISO 31000
12 9 (1.39%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.93%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.77%) Def Stans
14 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.62%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (8.95%) Active Directory
1 58 (8.95%) Docker
2 21 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.46%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.31%) Firmware
6 2 (0.31%) HDFS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 89 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.48%) Ansible
3 32 (4.94%) Grafana
4 28 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.47%) Argo
7 14 (2.16%) SCCM
8 12 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.70%) Nessus
10 9 (1.39%) Puppet
11 5 (0.77%) vRealize
12 4 (0.62%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.62%) OPNET
12 4 (0.62%) Podman
12 4 (0.62%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.62%) QRadar
13 2 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.31%) Nexpose
13 2 (0.31%) systemd
13 2 (0.31%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 156 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.87%) Qualys
2 51 (7.87%) Tenable
3 38 (5.86%) Splunk
4 36 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 32 (4.94%) Oracle
6 24 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
7 20 (3.09%) Trend Micro
8 19 (2.93%) VMware
9 18 (2.78%) Google
10 16 (2.47%) Rapid7
11 13 (2.01%) Tanium
12 12 (1.85%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.70%) Databricks
14 9 (1.39%) Okta
14 9 (1.39%) SAP
15 8 (1.23%) Clearswift
15 8 (1.23%) Remedy
16 7 (1.08%) Apple
16 7 (1.08%) Fortinet