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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 277 257
Rank change year-on-year +12 -20 +98
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 308 243 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 0.86% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.97% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 158 240
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £477 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £691
90th Percentile £775 £777 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 20
10th Percentile - £50.63 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £51.56 £42.25
Median hourly rate £49.73 £53.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +9.69% -24.90%
75th Percentile £57.25 £56.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £61.75 £57.88 £67.63
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £53.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year +0.47% +9.69% -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 28,064 24,952 32,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.52% 88.77% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,908 15,353 21,703
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,766 818 1,417
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

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 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 1 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 1 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 +8 131 £568 -1.30% 42
North of England -8 64 £501 -1.73% 24
South East -22 45 £488 -11.36% 34
Yorkshire -18 38 £509 -21.65% 10
North West -13 26 £501 -1.73% 11
South West -5 20 £550 +15.79% 18
Midlands -30 19 £500 +51.52% 12
East of England -16 15 £465 +9.41% 9
West Midlands -25 15 £525 +59.09% 7
East Midlands -17 4 £419 - 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 24 (7.79%) Confluence
2 8 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 111 (36.04%) Azure
2 93 (30.19%) AWS
3 39 (12.66%) GCP
4 35 (11.36%) Entra ID
5 33 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (6.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (4.55%) SaaS
8 9 (2.92%) Serverless
9 8 (2.60%) IaaS
10 7 (2.27%) PaaS
11 6 (1.95%) GitHub
12 5 (1.62%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.30%) Azure Storage
14 3 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.97%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.16%) Firewall
2 41 (13.31%) Network Security
3 17 (5.52%) DNS
4 14 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 14 (4.55%) VPN
5 7 (2.27%) SSL
5 7 (2.27%) WAN
6 6 (1.95%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.95%) LAN
7 5 (1.62%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.62%) Wireless
8 4 (1.30%) DHCP
9 3 (0.97%) HTTP
9 3 (0.97%) SMTP
9 3 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.65%) Internet
10 2 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.65%) IPsec
10 2 (0.65%) S/MIME
10 2 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.62%) Power BI
2 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.32%) DB2
3 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (10.39%) JIRA
2 6 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.97%) Snyk
4 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.65%) Git
4 2 (0.65%) GitLab
4 2 (0.65%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
General
1 86 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.75%) Finance
3 42 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.19%) Banking
6 14 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.55%) Legal
7 8 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.27%) Retail
9 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.30%) Military
9 4 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Publishing
10 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (16.56%) Architect
2 49 (15.91%) Analyst
3 42 (13.64%) Security Architect
4 41 (13.31%) Security Engineer
4 41 (13.31%) Senior
5 28 (9.09%) Security Analyst
6 19 (6.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 19 (6.17%) Lead
7 17 (5.52%) Consultant
8 16 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
9 15 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.57%) Security Manager
11 11 (3.57%) Security Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.25%) Administrator
12 10 (3.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 9 (2.92%) Security Officer
13 9 (2.92%) Tester
14 8 (2.60%) IT Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.52%) OAuth
2 16 (5.19%) SAML
3 6 (1.95%) OpenID
4 5 (1.62%) .NET
4 5 (1.62%) JWT
4 5 (1.62%) LDAP
4 5 (1.62%) SAP Basis
5 4 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.65%) ADO
6 2 (0.65%) Kafka
6 2 (0.65%) Middleware
6 2 (0.65%) Node.js
6 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.65%) REST
6 2 (0.65%) Spring
6 2 (0.65%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.65%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) JSSE
7 1 (0.32%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.34%) Security Posture
2 25 (8.12%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.79%) Cyber Threat
4 22 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 19 (6.17%) Onboarding
5 19 (6.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 13 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
8 11 (3.57%) Operational Technology
9 10 (3.25%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.60%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.95%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.95%) PKI
11 6 (1.95%) Taxonomies
12 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.30%) BYOD
13 4 (1.30%) CSOC
13 4 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.18%) Windows
2 31 (10.06%) Linux
3 21 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.57%) Mac OS
4 11 (3.57%) Unix
4 11 (3.57%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.65%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Android
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Rocky
7 1 (0.32%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (36.69%) Incident Response
3 84 (27.27%) Security Operations
4 83 (26.95%) Cloud Security
5 81 (26.30%) SIEM
6 53 (17.21%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 52 (16.88%) Identity Access Management
8 45 (14.61%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 44 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
10 42 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (13.31%) Risk Management
12 40 (12.99%) CI/CD
13 39 (12.66%) Threat Modelling
14 37 (12.01%) DevSecOps
15 36 (11.69%) Penetration Testing
16 34 (11.04%) Application Security
16 34 (11.04%) Information Security
16 34 (11.04%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 33 (10.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.66%) Python
2 26 (8.44%) PowerShell
3 22 (7.14%) Bash
4 8 (2.60%) SQL
5 7 (2.27%) Java
6 6 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.65%) Bicep
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
8 1 (0.32%) Rust
8 1 (0.32%) Scala
8 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 83 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 76 (24.68%) CISSP
3 75 (24.35%) SC Cleared
4 45 (14.61%) Degree
5 42 (13.64%) CISM
6 25 (8.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 20 (6.49%) CEH
8 16 (5.19%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (4.87%) Master's Degree
10 14 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (4.22%) Azure Certification
12 12 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (3.90%) CCSP
12 12 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (3.57%) AWS Certification
13 11 (3.57%) GCIH
14 10 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (3.25%) OSCP
14 10 (3.25%) PhD
15 8 (2.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (23.70%) NIST
2 64 (20.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.47%) GDPR
4 19 (6.17%) PCI DSS
5 15 (4.87%) NCSC
6 9 (2.92%) GRC
6 9 (2.92%) NIST 800
7 8 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (2.27%) COBIT
9 5 (1.62%) PSD2
9 5 (1.62%) SLA
10 4 (1.30%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.30%) PMO
11 3 (0.97%) ITGC
11 3 (0.97%) QA
11 3 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.17%) Docker
3 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.32%) GPFS
5 1 (0.32%) Lustre
5 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.47%) SCCM
3 19 (6.17%) Nessus
4 16 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (4.22%) Ansible
6 11 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.57%) Terraform
7 9 (2.92%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (2.27%) CASB
8 7 (2.27%) Norton AntiVirus
9 5 (1.62%) WSUS
10 3 (0.97%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.97%) Grafana
10 3 (0.97%) Nexpose
10 3 (0.97%) QRadar
11 2 (0.65%) Podman
11 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.65%) Puppet
11 2 (0.65%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.65%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 81 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.01%) Qualys
3 35 (11.36%) Tenable
4 28 (9.09%) Splunk
5 17 (5.52%) CyberArk
5 17 (5.52%) Rapid7
6 16 (5.19%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (4.55%) Google
8 12 (3.90%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.57%) Palo Alto
9 11 (3.57%) VMware
10 10 (3.25%) BiZZdesign
11 9 (2.92%) Centrify
11 9 (2.92%) McAfee
12 8 (2.60%) Cisco
13 7 (2.27%) Apple
13 7 (2.27%) Okta
13 7 (2.27%) Remedy
13 7 (2.27%) SAP
13 7 (2.27%) Symantec