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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 248 286
Rank change year-on-year +45 +38 +23
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 588 276 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.04% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.14% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 186 213
10th Percentile £356 £313 £382
25th Percentile £463 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +2.66% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 6 1
10th Percentile £54.85 £28.52 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £29.79 £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £43.62 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% -24.14% +119.05%
75th Percentile £84.00 £90.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £102.75 -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £43.62 £57.50
% change year-on-year +86.85% -24.14% +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 37,874 24,162 31,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.93% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,840 15,529 20,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,216 2,288
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +4 243 £550 - 151
North of England +43 140 £540 -15.29% 54
South East -15 109 £525 +0.19% 99
Yorkshire +23 74 £550 - 17
North West +3 57 £540 -8.09% 26
South West -15 37 £561 +40.34% 50
Midlands -35 32 £525 -16.00% 35
West Midlands -43 26 £438 -33.96% 19
East of England -31 13 £513 +7.89% 36
North East -30 9 £375 -45.45% 11
East Midlands -11 5 £638 +112.50% 16
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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 17 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.38%) Apache
3 14 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.04%) Jupyter
5 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 175 (29.76%) Azure
2 150 (25.51%) AWS
3 62 (10.54%) Entra ID
4 54 (9.18%) GCP
5 52 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (4.93%) GitHub
7 28 (4.76%) SaaS
8 26 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 15 (2.55%) OCI
12 14 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (2.38%) Power Platform
13 13 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.21%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.04%) Serverless
15 10 (1.70%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 70 (11.90%) Network Security
2 46 (7.82%) Firewall
3 21 (3.57%) DNS
4 13 (2.21%) DHCP
5 11 (1.87%) WAN
6 10 (1.70%) VPN
7 9 (1.53%) BGP
7 9 (1.53%) IPsec
7 9 (1.53%) LAN
7 9 (1.53%) MPLS
8 8 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.02%) HTTPS
9 6 (1.02%) Wireless
10 5 (0.85%) Internet
10 5 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.68%) MQTT
11 4 (0.68%) NGFW
11 4 (0.68%) SSL
12 3 (0.51%) Broadband
13 2 (0.34%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.04%) Power BI
2 6 (1.02%) Big Data
2 6 (1.02%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (4.93%) GitLab
1 29 (4.93%) JIRA
2 18 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.87%) SonarQube
4 8 (1.36%) Git
4 8 (1.36%) Snyk
5 3 (0.51%) AdminStudio
5 3 (0.51%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.51%) git-flow
5 3 (0.51%) InstallShield
5 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.34%) Flyway
6 2 (0.34%) JUnit
6 2 (0.34%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.34%) Mockito
7 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.17%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.17%) TruffleHog
General
1 174 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 124 (21.09%) Finance
3 83 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.93%) Banking
6 24 (4.08%) Legal
7 23 (3.91%) Aerospace
8 19 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.70%) Publishing
13 9 (1.53%) Local Government
14 8 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.02%) Military
16 5 (0.85%) Law
16 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.34%) Arabic Language
18 1 (0.17%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (13.10%) Analyst
2 64 (10.88%) Lead
3 58 (9.86%) Security Engineer
4 57 (9.69%) Architect
5 56 (9.52%) Consultant
6 44 (7.48%) Senior
7 38 (6.46%) Security Architect
8 34 (5.78%) Security Consultant
9 31 (5.27%) Security Analyst
10 25 (4.25%) Security Manager
11 22 (3.74%) Security Specialist
12 19 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 19 (3.23%) Developer
12 19 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 19 (3.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 18 (3.06%) Business Analyst
14 17 (2.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 17 (2.89%) Vulnerability Analyst
15 16 (2.72%) DevSecOps Consultant
16 15 (2.55%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (1.70%) Loki
2 10 (1.70%) SAP Basis
3 7 (1.19%) REST
3 7 (1.19%) RESTful
4 6 (1.02%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.02%) Kafka
4 6 (1.02%) LangChain
4 6 (1.02%) LDAP
4 6 (1.02%) PyTorch
4 6 (1.02%) scikit-learn
5 5 (0.85%) ModSecurity
6 4 (0.68%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.68%) gRPC
6 4 (0.68%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.68%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (0.51%) OAuth
7 3 (0.51%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.51%) SOAP
7 3 (0.51%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.33%) Security Posture
2 48 (8.16%) Operational Technology
3 43 (7.31%) Cloud Native
3 43 (7.31%) Onboarding
4 35 (5.95%) Management Information System
5 30 (5.10%) Cyber Threat
6 22 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 21 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 20 (3.40%) Cyber Defence
9 17 (2.89%) Cloud Security Posture
10 15 (2.55%) Product Ownership
11 12 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.04%) SCADA
12 11 (1.87%) PKI
13 10 (1.70%) CMDB
13 10 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.70%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.53%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.19%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 78 (13.27%) Linux
2 77 (13.10%) Windows
3 23 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.23%) Unix
6 11 (1.87%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.02%) AIX
9 5 (0.85%) HPUX
9 5 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.85%) Solaris
9 5 (0.85%) SUSE
10 4 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.17%) Android
13 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.17%) CentOS
13 1 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (45.58%) Cybersecurity
2 140 (23.81%) Incident Response
3 133 (22.62%) CI/CD
4 130 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 116 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 114 (19.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 112 (19.05%) Cloud Security
7 112 (19.05%) Risk Management
8 109 (18.54%) SIEM
9 107 (18.20%) Security Operations
10 91 (15.48%) Threat Modelling
11 89 (15.14%) Security Architecture
12 87 (14.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 83 (14.12%) DevSecOps
14 76 (12.93%) DevOps
15 75 (12.76%) Roadmaps
16 60 (10.20%) Application Security
16 60 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
18 53 (9.01%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (15.31%) Python
2 47 (7.99%) PowerShell
3 33 (5.61%) Bash
4 15 (2.55%) SQL
5 11 (1.87%) Bicep
5 11 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (1.36%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.19%) Java
8 4 (0.68%) Korn
8 4 (0.68%) Rust
9 3 (0.51%) Perl
10 2 (0.34%) Go
10 2 (0.34%) PromQL
10 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.17%) C#
11 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 201 (34.18%) Security Cleared
2 133 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 110 (18.71%) CISSP
4 66 (11.22%) CISM
5 65 (11.05%) Degree
6 47 (7.99%) DV Cleared
7 40 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (5.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 27 (4.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 26 (4.42%) CCSP
11 20 (3.40%) GIAC
12 16 (2.72%) CRISC
13 15 (2.55%) AWS Certification
14 13 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (2.04%) CISA
15 12 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (1.70%) CEH
17 10 (1.70%) CESG Certified Professional
17 10 (1.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (18.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 101 (17.18%) NIST
3 45 (7.65%) GRC
4 41 (6.97%) GDPR
5 39 (6.63%) NCSC
6 29 (4.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (3.91%) SLA
8 15 (2.55%) NIST 800
8 15 (2.55%) PCI DSS
9 14 (2.38%) SOC 2
10 12 (2.04%) QA
11 11 (1.87%) ISO 31000
12 10 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (1.19%) Data Quality
13 7 (1.19%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.51%) IFRS
15 3 (0.51%) IFRS 9
15 3 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (8.50%) Docker
2 46 (7.82%) Active Directory
3 26 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.34%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) GPFS
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
6 1 (0.17%) Lustre
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (10.37%) Terraform
2 58 (9.86%) Kubernetes
3 30 (5.10%) Ansible
4 26 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (3.91%) Grafana
6 21 (3.57%) Nessus
7 19 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (2.55%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.70%) Argo
9 10 (1.70%) SCCM
10 8 (1.36%) Puppet
11 5 (0.85%) CASB
11 5 (0.85%) vRealize
12 4 (0.68%) Podman
13 3 (0.51%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.51%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.51%) OPNET
13 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.34%) Nexpose
14 2 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 116 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.20%) Tenable
3 50 (8.50%) Qualys
4 43 (7.31%) Splunk
5 39 (6.63%) ServiceNow
6 26 (4.42%) Oracle
7 21 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
7 21 (3.57%) Rapid7
7 21 (3.57%) Trend Micro
8 19 (3.23%) Okta
9 16 (2.72%) Google
9 16 (2.72%) SAP
10 13 (2.21%) VMware
11 12 (2.04%) Red Hat
11 12 (2.04%) Remedy
12 11 (1.87%) Databricks
13 10 (1.70%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.70%) Tanium
14 9 (1.53%) IBM
15 8 (1.36%) Clearswift