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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 232 265
Rank change year-on-year +35 +33 +16
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 645 312 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.12% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.24% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 214 206
10th Percentile £363 £325 £378
25th Percentile £463 £457 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £675
90th Percentile £732 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 7 3
10th Percentile £66.25 £28.72 £51.25
25th Percentile £71.00 £30.06 £53.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% +109.09%
75th Percentile £84.00 £81.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £102.20 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% +109.09%

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 39,024 25,239 28,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,245 16,077 18,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,443 1,638
10th Percentile £14.42 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.17% +3.59%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.50% -38.57% -1.35%

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 6 months to 16 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 6 months to 16 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 6 months to 16 August 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 +9 263 £550 +2.61% 223
South East +1 146 £550 +4.76% 135
North of England +25 131 £543 +2.12% 92
Yorkshire +20 68 £550 +2.33% 29
North West -8 53 £519 -0.26% 50
South West -29 38 £600 +50.00% 67
Midlands -25 30 £525 -16.00% 38
East of England -17 24 £510 +10.27% 37
West Midlands -36 23 £475 -34.48% 28
North East - 10 £375 - 13
East Midlands -12 6 £638 +112.50% 10
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 25 (3.88%) Confluence
2 20 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.48%) Apache
5 12 (1.86%) Jupyter
6 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.47%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 214 (33.18%) Azure
2 164 (25.43%) AWS
3 73 (11.32%) Entra ID
4 61 (9.46%) GCP
4 61 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (8.06%) GitHub
6 31 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (4.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 26 (4.03%) SaaS
9 19 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (2.79%) OCI
11 16 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.17%) Power Platform
13 13 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.02%) OpenShift
14 12 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.71%) Serverless
16 10 (1.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (11.01%) Network Security
2 39 (6.05%) Firewall
3 20 (3.10%) DNS
4 14 (2.17%) WAN
5 13 (2.02%) MPLS
6 12 (1.86%) BGP
6 12 (1.86%) IPsec
6 12 (1.86%) LAN
7 11 (1.71%) VPN
8 10 (1.55%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.24%) Broadband
10 5 (0.78%) DHCP
11 4 (0.62%) Internet
11 4 (0.62%) Intranet
11 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.62%) MQTT
12 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.47%) NGFW
12 3 (0.47%) VLAN
13 2 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.71%) Power BI
2 10 (1.55%) Big Data
3 9 (1.40%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.93%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.47%) Trino
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.31%) Power Query
8 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (6.36%) GitLab
2 30 (4.65%) JIRA
3 28 (4.34%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.86%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.40%) Git
5 9 (1.40%) Snyk
6 4 (0.62%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.47%) AdminStudio
7 3 (0.47%) git-flow
7 3 (0.47%) InstallShield
7 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.47%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.31%) Flyway
8 2 (0.31%) JUnit
8 2 (0.31%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.31%) Mockito
8 2 (0.31%) MSI
8 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 201 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 133 (20.62%) Finance
3 81 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.89%) Aerospace
6 35 (5.43%) Banking
7 23 (3.57%) Legal
8 20 (3.10%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.24%) Local Government
13 8 (1.24%) Military
14 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.93%) Law
15 6 (0.93%) Publishing
16 4 (0.62%) Retail
17 2 (0.31%) Billing
Job Titles
1 100 (15.50%) Analyst
2 77 (11.94%) Lead
3 59 (9.15%) Architect
4 58 (8.99%) Consultant
4 58 (8.99%) Security Engineer
5 51 (7.91%) Senior
6 41 (6.36%) Security Analyst
7 39 (6.05%) Security Architect
8 37 (5.74%) Security Consultant
9 30 (4.65%) Security Manager
10 25 (3.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 23 (3.57%) Security Specialist
11 23 (3.57%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 22 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.26%) Developer
14 19 (2.95%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 17 (2.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 17 (2.64%) DevSecOps Consultant
16 16 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (1.86%) Loki
3 11 (1.71%) REST
4 8 (1.24%) Kafka
5 7 (1.09%) ARM Templates
5 7 (1.09%) RESTful
6 6 (0.93%) LangChain
6 6 (0.93%) PyTorch
6 6 (0.93%) SAP Basis
6 6 (0.93%) scikit-learn
7 5 (0.78%) ModSecurity
7 5 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (0.62%) .NET
8 4 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (0.62%) gRPC
8 4 (0.62%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.62%) OAuth
8 4 (0.62%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (0.62%) SLSA
9 3 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 109 (16.90%) Security Posture
2 53 (8.22%) Operational Technology
3 49 (7.60%) Cloud Native
3 49 (7.60%) Cyber Threat
4 46 (7.13%) Onboarding
5 37 (5.74%) Management Information System
6 34 (5.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 22 (3.41%) Cloud Security Posture
8 20 (3.10%) Cyber Defence
9 19 (2.95%) Product Ownership
9 19 (2.95%) Virtual Team
10 15 (2.33%) CMDB
11 14 (2.17%) SCADA
12 12 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.71%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.40%) Public Cloud
16 8 (1.24%) Cyber Security Posture
16 8 (1.24%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.87%) Windows
2 81 (12.56%) Linux
3 22 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.64%) Unix
6 13 (2.02%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.93%) AIX
8 5 (0.78%) HPUX
8 5 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.78%) Solaris
8 5 (0.78%) SUSE
8 5 (0.78%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.31%) Android
10 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (50.08%) Cybersecurity
2 182 (28.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 164 (25.43%) Incident Response
4 153 (23.72%) CI/CD
5 141 (21.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 140 (21.71%) Cloud Security
7 131 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 129 (20.00%) Security Operations
9 128 (19.84%) Risk Management
10 122 (18.91%) SIEM
11 105 (16.28%) DevSecOps
12 96 (14.88%) Security Architecture
13 95 (14.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 94 (14.57%) Threat Modelling
15 91 (14.11%) DevOps
16 85 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
17 83 (12.87%) Roadmaps
18 72 (11.16%) Identity Access Management
19 68 (10.54%) Information Security
20 65 (10.08%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 108 (16.74%) Python
2 76 (11.78%) PowerShell
3 40 (6.20%) Bash
4 24 (3.72%) Bicep
5 21 (3.26%) SQL
6 11 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.24%) Java
8 8 (1.24%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.62%) C#
9 4 (0.62%) Go
9 4 (0.62%) Korn
9 4 (0.62%) Rust
10 3 (0.47%) Perl
11 2 (0.31%) PromQL
11 2 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 224 (34.73%) Security Cleared
2 153 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 117 (18.14%) CISSP
4 79 (12.25%) CISM
5 59 (9.15%) Degree
6 54 (8.37%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (7.75%) DV Cleared
8 47 (7.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 29 (4.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 27 (4.19%) CCSP
11 20 (3.10%) AWS Certification
12 16 (2.48%) Azure Certification
12 16 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (2.17%) CRISC
14 13 (2.02%) CEH
14 13 (2.02%) GIAC
14 13 (2.02%) PMP
15 12 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (1.71%) CISA
16 11 (1.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 124 (19.22%) NIST
3 54 (8.37%) GDPR
4 52 (8.06%) NCSC
5 47 (7.29%) GRC
6 42 (6.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (3.41%) SLA
8 21 (3.26%) NIST 800
9 19 (2.95%) QA
10 17 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (2.17%) PCI DSS
12 10 (1.55%) SOC 2
13 9 (1.40%) ISO 31000
14 8 (1.24%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.93%) Data Quality
16 5 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.78%) Def Stans
16 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 5 (0.78%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.62%) COBIT
System Software
1 61 (9.46%) Docker
2 58 (8.99%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.47%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.31%) HDFS
7 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 87 (13.49%) Terraform
2 83 (12.87%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.05%) Ansible
4 29 (4.50%) Grafana
4 29 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (2.17%) Argo
7 14 (2.17%) SCCM
8 13 (2.02%) Nessus
9 9 (1.40%) Puppet
10 5 (0.78%) vRealize
11 4 (0.62%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.62%) OPNET
11 4 (0.62%) Podman
11 4 (0.62%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.62%) QRadar
12 2 (0.31%) Cilium
12 2 (0.31%) Consul
12 2 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 150 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.84%) Tenable
3 52 (8.06%) Qualys
4 41 (6.36%) ServiceNow
5 40 (6.20%) Splunk
6 31 (4.81%) Oracle
7 24 (3.72%) CrowdStrike
8 22 (3.41%) Google
9 20 (3.10%) Trend Micro
10 19 (2.95%) Rapid7
11 18 (2.79%) VMware
12 14 (2.17%) Okta
13 13 (2.02%) Tanium
14 12 (1.86%) SAP
15 11 (1.71%) Databricks
15 11 (1.71%) Red Hat
16 9 (1.40%) IBM
16 9 (1.40%) Remedy
17 8 (1.24%) Clearswift
17 8 (1.24%) Fortinet