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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 274 283
Rank change year-on-year +46 +9 +36
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 431 211 288
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 0.86% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.95% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 137 222
10th Percentile £335 £400 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £675
90th Percentile £713 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% +0.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 2
10th Percentile £41.94 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £45.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% -16.15% -
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £84.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £54.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.70% -16.15% -

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 32,374 22,226 32,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.74% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,766 14,506 21,651
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £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 1,980 825 2,147
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.83
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.81 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +23 168 £575 -2.95% 46
North of England +25 114 £519 +15.22% 37
Yorkshire +8 70 £500 - 15
South East -51 68 £500 -7.15% 30
North West +6 44 £575 +43.75% 16
Midlands -40 32 £500 -24.53% 9
South West -14 25 £513 +20.59% 17
West Midlands -47 25 £438 -33.96% 7
East of England -16 10 £480 -38.06% 12
East Midlands - 7 £638 - 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 29 (6.73%) Confluence
2 8 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (4.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 147 (34.11%) Azure
2 117 (27.15%) AWS
3 48 (11.14%) Entra ID
4 43 (9.98%) GCP
5 40 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (5.34%) SaaS
7 18 (4.18%) Azure Sentinel
8 16 (3.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (2.55%) GitHub
9 11 (2.55%) Serverless
10 10 (2.32%) OpenShift
11 9 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.09%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.39%) IaaS
13 6 (1.39%) PaaS
14 5 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.69%) Firewall
2 49 (11.37%) Network Security
3 22 (5.10%) DNS
4 16 (3.71%) VPN
5 12 (2.78%) DHCP
6 10 (2.32%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.09%) Wireless
8 6 (1.39%) HTTPS
8 6 (1.39%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.39%) SSL
9 5 (1.16%) WAN
10 4 (0.93%) Internet
10 4 (0.93%) LAN
11 3 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.70%) SAN
12 2 (0.46%) NAS
12 2 (0.46%) NGFW
12 2 (0.46%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.09%) Power BI
2 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.70%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.23%) DB2
5 1 (0.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (8.82%) JIRA
2 12 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.09%) Snyk
4 7 (1.62%) GitLab
5 3 (0.70%) Git
5 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.46%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.46%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.23%) git-flow
7 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.23%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 124 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.40%) Finance
3 65 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.94%) Aerospace
7 16 (3.71%) Legal
8 14 (3.25%) Publishing
9 13 (3.02%) Banking
10 9 (2.09%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.93%) Military
12 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.93%) Retail
13 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.70%) Local Government
13 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 64 (14.85%) Security Engineer
2 56 (12.99%) Architect
3 51 (11.83%) Analyst
4 46 (10.67%) Senior
5 41 (9.51%) Security Architect
6 36 (8.35%) Lead
7 22 (5.10%) Consultant
7 22 (5.10%) Security Analyst
8 19 (4.41%) Security Manager
9 18 (4.18%) Administrator
9 18 (4.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 17 (3.94%) Business Analyst
11 14 (3.25%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
12 13 (3.02%) Security Consultant
13 12 (2.78%) Project Manager
13 12 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (2.78%) Senior Security Engineer
14 11 (2.55%) Security Officer
14 11 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.55%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.18%) OAuth
2 17 (3.94%) SAML
3 15 (3.48%) SAP Basis
4 8 (1.86%) OpenID
5 6 (1.39%) .NET
5 6 (1.39%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.39%) LDAP
6 5 (1.16%) JWT
7 4 (0.93%) Kafka
7 4 (0.93%) LangChain
7 4 (0.93%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.93%) REST
7 4 (0.93%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.93%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.70%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.70%) Middleware
8 3 (0.70%) Node.js
9 2 (0.46%) ADO
9 2 (0.46%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.23%) Security Posture
2 37 (8.58%) Cloud Native
3 29 (6.73%) Onboarding
4 28 (6.50%) Management Information System
5 23 (5.34%) Operational Technology
6 19 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
7 16 (3.71%) Taxonomies
8 15 (3.48%) PKI
9 14 (3.25%) Cloud Security Posture
9 14 (3.25%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (2.55%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
10 11 (2.55%) Virtual Team
11 10 (2.32%) Product Ownership
12 9 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.62%) IoT
15 6 (1.39%) Data Centre
15 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (1.16%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.74%) Windows
2 38 (8.82%) Linux
3 18 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.09%) Unix
5 7 (1.62%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.16%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) Rocky
8 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.23%) Android
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (43.62%) Cybersecurity
2 120 (27.84%) Incident Response
3 94 (21.81%) Cloud Security
4 79 (18.33%) Security Operations
5 77 (17.87%) SIEM
6 76 (17.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (16.71%) CI/CD
8 63 (14.62%) Risk Management
8 63 (14.62%) Threat Modelling
9 59 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 57 (13.23%) DevSecOps
10 57 (13.23%) Identity Access Management
11 52 (12.06%) Security Architecture
11 52 (12.06%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
12 51 (11.83%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 50 (11.60%) Computer Science
14 49 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (11.14%) Roadmaps
16 46 (10.67%) Agile
17 44 (10.21%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 57 (13.23%) Python
2 34 (7.89%) PowerShell
3 26 (6.03%) Bash
4 13 (3.02%) SQL
5 7 (1.62%) Java
5 7 (1.62%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.16%) Bicep
7 4 (0.93%) Korn
8 3 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.46%) Go
10 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.23%) C#
10 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.23%) Rust
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 135 (31.32%) Security Cleared
2 108 (25.06%) SC Cleared
3 83 (19.26%) CISSP
4 68 (15.78%) Degree
5 49 (11.37%) CISM
6 26 (6.03%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (4.41%) Master's Degree
8 16 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (3.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (3.48%) CEH
9 15 (3.48%) GIAC
9 15 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (3.25%) PMP
11 13 (3.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (3.02%) CCSP
11 13 (3.02%) CREST Certified
11 13 (3.02%) DV Cleared
12 12 (2.78%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.78%) PMI Certification
13 11 (2.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (19.49%) NIST
2 72 (16.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (5.10%) GDPR
3 22 (5.10%) NCSC
4 20 (4.64%) GRC
5 15 (3.48%) NIST 800
6 14 (3.25%) PCI DSS
7 13 (3.02%) SLA
8 10 (2.32%) SOC 2
9 9 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.62%) HIPAA
10 7 (1.62%) QA
11 6 (1.39%) COBIT
11 6 (1.39%) PMO
12 4 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.70%) GxP
14 2 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.46%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 28 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 27 (6.26%) Docker
3 10 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.46%) GPFS
6 2 (0.46%) Lustre
6 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.46%) vSphere
7 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.42%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (5.80%) Terraform
4 20 (4.64%) Nessus
5 16 (3.71%) Ansible
6 15 (3.48%) SCCM
7 12 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.62%) CASB
8 7 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.16%) Grafana
9 5 (1.16%) Norton AntiVirus
9 5 (1.16%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.70%) OpenVAS
10 3 (0.70%) Puppet
10 3 (0.70%) QRadar
10 3 (0.70%) WSUS
11 2 (0.46%) Podman
11 2 (0.46%) SCOM
11 2 (0.46%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.46%) SELinux
Vendors
1 77 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 53 (12.30%) Tenable
3 39 (9.05%) Splunk
4 34 (7.89%) Qualys
5 26 (6.03%) ServiceNow
6 22 (5.10%) Okta
7 21 (4.87%) SAP
8 20 (4.64%) CyberArk
9 17 (3.94%) Rapid7
10 11 (2.55%) Cisco
10 11 (2.55%) Google
11 10 (2.32%) BiZZdesign
12 9 (2.09%) Centrify
12 9 (2.09%) Remedy
12 9 (2.09%) VMware
13 8 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (1.62%) IBM
15 6 (1.39%) Apple
15 6 (1.39%) ForeScout
15 6 (1.39%) Oracle