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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 244 283
Rank change year-on-year +51 +39 +16
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 609 298 278
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.08% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.19% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 198 197
10th Percentile £363 £313 £380
25th Percentile £465 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +2.66% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 8 2
10th Percentile £66.25 £28.92 -
25th Percentile £80.00 £30.34 £56.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.54% -5.22% +119.05%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £101.65 -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +49.54% -5.22% +119.05%

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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +22 253 £550 +2.61% 129
South East -1 130 £525 - 98
North of England +31 129 £540 -1.82% 62
Yorkshire +17 65 £550 +2.33% 25
North West -10 55 £540 -10.52% 23
South West -23 35 £588 +46.88% 47
Midlands -38 31 £525 -16.00% 36
West Midlands -44 24 £500 -24.53% 24
East of England -18 18 £513 +7.89% 27
North East - 9 £375 - 14
East Midlands -7 6 £638 +112.50% 12
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 22 (3.61%) Confluence
2 18 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.30%) Apache
5 12 (1.97%) Jupyter
6 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 183 (30.05%) Azure
2 149 (24.47%) AWS
3 64 (10.51%) Entra ID
4 53 (8.70%) GCP
4 53 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (6.57%) GitHub
6 27 (4.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 26 (4.27%) SaaS
8 25 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (2.79%) OCI
11 12 (1.97%) Amazon S3
11 12 (1.97%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.81%) OpenShift
12 11 (1.81%) Serverless
13 10 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.00%) Network Security
2 43 (7.06%) Firewall
3 22 (3.61%) DNS
4 14 (2.30%) WAN
5 13 (2.13%) MPLS
6 12 (1.97%) BGP
6 12 (1.97%) IPsec
6 12 (1.97%) LAN
6 12 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.97%) VPN
7 7 (1.15%) Broadband
8 6 (0.99%) DHCP
9 5 (0.82%) Internet
10 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.66%) MQTT
10 4 (0.66%) SSL
11 3 (0.49%) NGFW
11 3 (0.49%) VLAN
12 2 (0.33%) Intranet
12 2 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.64%) Power BI
2 9 (1.48%) Big Data
2 9 (1.48%) Data Lake
3 6 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.49%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 35 (5.75%) GitLab
2 28 (4.60%) JIRA
3 23 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.81%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.31%) Git
5 8 (1.31%) Snyk
6 3 (0.49%) AdminStudio
6 3 (0.49%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.49%) git-flow
6 3 (0.49%) InstallShield
6 3 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.33%) Flyway
7 2 (0.33%) JUnit
7 2 (0.33%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.33%) Mockito
8 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.16%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.16%) TruffleHog
General
1 190 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 129 (21.18%) Finance
3 81 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (12.15%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.09%) Aerospace
5 31 (5.09%) Banking
6 23 (3.78%) Legal
7 19 (3.12%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.31%) Local Government
14 7 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.99%) Law
15 6 (0.99%) Military
15 6 (0.99%) Publishing
16 3 (0.49%) Retail
17 1 (0.16%) Billing
Job Titles
1 85 (13.96%) Analyst
2 71 (11.66%) Lead
3 61 (10.02%) Consultant
4 58 (9.52%) Security Engineer
5 54 (8.87%) Architect
6 48 (7.88%) Senior
7 38 (6.24%) Security Consultant
8 34 (5.58%) Security Analyst
8 34 (5.58%) Security Architect
9 28 (4.60%) Security Manager
10 22 (3.61%) Security Specialist
11 21 (3.45%) Developer
12 20 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 20 (3.28%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 19 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 17 (2.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 16 (2.63%) Business Analyst
15 16 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (2.63%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (1.81%) Loki
3 7 (1.15%) REST
3 7 (1.15%) RESTful
4 6 (0.99%) LangChain
4 6 (0.99%) LDAP
4 6 (0.99%) PyTorch
4 6 (0.99%) SAP Basis
4 6 (0.99%) scikit-learn
5 5 (0.82%) Kafka
5 5 (0.82%) ModSecurity
6 4 (0.66%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.66%) gRPC
6 4 (0.66%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.66%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (0.49%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.49%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.49%) SLSA
7 3 (0.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 98 (16.09%) Security Posture
2 52 (8.54%) Operational Technology
3 45 (7.39%) Cloud Native
4 41 (6.73%) Onboarding
5 37 (6.08%) Cyber Threat
5 37 (6.08%) Management Information System
6 28 (4.60%) Security Operations Centre
7 20 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
7 20 (3.28%) Cyber Defence
7 20 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 16 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.97%) CMDB
9 12 (1.97%) SCADA
10 11 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.48%) PKI
12 9 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.15%) Social Media
13 7 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 81 (13.30%) Linux
1 81 (13.30%) Windows
2 22 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.12%) Unix
5 12 (1.97%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.99%) AIX
6 6 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.82%) HPUX
7 5 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.82%) Solaris
7 5 (0.82%) SUSE
7 5 (0.82%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.16%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (47.95%) Cybersecurity
2 158 (25.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 151 (24.79%) Incident Response
4 139 (22.82%) CI/CD
5 126 (20.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 122 (20.03%) Cloud Security
6 122 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 121 (19.87%) Risk Management
8 117 (19.21%) Security Operations
9 113 (18.56%) SIEM
10 90 (14.78%) Threat Modelling
11 89 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 85 (13.96%) DevSecOps
12 85 (13.96%) Security Architecture
13 78 (12.81%) DevOps
14 74 (12.15%) Roadmaps
15 66 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
16 62 (10.18%) Information Security
17 61 (10.02%) Identity Access Management
18 59 (9.69%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 98 (16.09%) Python
2 59 (9.69%) PowerShell
3 37 (6.08%) Bash
4 19 (3.12%) SQL
5 17 (2.79%) Bicep
6 10 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.31%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.99%) Java
9 4 (0.66%) Korn
9 4 (0.66%) Rust
10 3 (0.49%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) Go
11 2 (0.33%) PromQL
11 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.16%) C#
12 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 212 (34.81%) Security Cleared
2 143 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 117 (19.21%) CISSP
4 76 (12.48%) CISM
5 61 (10.02%) Degree
6 50 (8.21%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (7.72%) DV Cleared
8 43 (7.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 30 (4.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 26 (4.27%) CCSP
11 18 (2.96%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.46%) CRISC
13 13 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (2.13%) CISA
13 13 (2.13%) GIAC
13 13 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (1.97%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.97%) PMP
15 11 (1.81%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (20.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (17.90%) NIST
3 49 (8.05%) GDPR
4 48 (7.88%) GRC
5 40 (6.57%) NCSC
6 36 (5.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (4.11%) SLA
8 20 (3.28%) NIST 800
9 16 (2.63%) QA
10 15 (2.46%) PCI DSS
11 13 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (1.97%) SOC 2
13 11 (1.81%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
15 7 (1.15%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.82%) COBIT
16 5 (0.82%) Def Stans
16 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 4 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (9.20%) Docker
2 51 (8.37%) Active Directory
3 26 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.33%) HDFS
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 72 (11.82%) Terraform
2 67 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 35 (5.75%) Ansible
4 28 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (4.27%) Grafana
6 19 (3.12%) Nessus
7 15 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (2.13%) Argo
9 11 (1.81%) SCCM
10 9 (1.48%) Puppet
11 5 (0.82%) CASB
11 5 (0.82%) vRealize
12 4 (0.66%) OPNET
12 4 (0.66%) Podman
12 4 (0.66%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.66%) QRadar
13 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.33%) Nexpose
14 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 133 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.85%) Tenable
3 49 (8.05%) Qualys
4 45 (7.39%) Splunk
5 39 (6.40%) ServiceNow
6 29 (4.76%) Oracle
7 24 (3.94%) CrowdStrike
8 21 (3.45%) Trend Micro
9 19 (3.12%) Google
9 19 (3.12%) Rapid7
10 15 (2.46%) Okta
11 14 (2.30%) VMware
12 12 (1.97%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.97%) Remedy
12 12 (1.97%) SAP
13 11 (1.81%) Databricks
13 11 (1.81%) Tanium
14 10 (1.64%) IBM
15 9 (1.48%) CyberArk
16 8 (1.31%) Clearswift