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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 291 261
Rank change year-on-year +20 -30 +78
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 325 205 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.87% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 123 253
10th Percentile £350 £390 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £567 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% -1.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £602 £648 £675
90th Percentile £746 £745 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.57% - -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 20
10th Percentile - £46.18 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £46.81 £42.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +6.63% -24.90%
75th Percentile £57.25 £59.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.15 £61.93 £67.63
UK median hourly rate £55.75 £52.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +6.63% -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 29,172 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.59% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,676 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £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 1,836 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +19 130 £575 -4.17% 48
North of England +3 78 £450 -10.00% 31
Yorkshire -5 50 £481 - 15
South East -29 45 £467 -11.05% 44
North West -10 28 £450 - 13
South West -7 23 £516 +21.35% 9
Midlands -39 22 £500 -20.00% 17
West Midlands -34 18 £500 -20.00% 16
East of England -21 15 £465 +9.41% 13
East Midlands -26 4 £419 - 1
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) nginx
4 1 (0.31%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 117 (36.00%) Azure
2 96 (29.54%) AWS
3 40 (12.31%) GCP
4 36 (11.08%) Entra ID
4 36 (11.08%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 17 (5.23%) SaaS
7 16 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.38%) Serverless
9 7 (2.15%) GitHub
9 7 (2.15%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.85%) IaaS
10 6 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.54%) PaaS
12 4 (1.23%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 56 (17.23%) Firewall
2 42 (12.92%) Network Security
3 15 (4.62%) VPN
4 14 (4.31%) DNS
5 12 (3.69%) DHCP
6 9 (2.77%) Wireless
7 8 (2.46%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.85%) HTTPS
8 6 (1.85%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.85%) WAN
9 5 (1.54%) LAN
10 3 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.62%) Internet
11 2 (0.62%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.62%) SAN
11 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.62%) SSL
11 2 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.31%) Calico
12 1 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.15%) Power BI
2 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.62%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.31%) DB2
4 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (9.54%) JIRA
2 7 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.23%) Snyk
4 3 (0.92%) GitLab
5 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.62%) Git
5 2 (0.62%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
General
1 93 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.92%) Finance
3 51 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.62%) Banking
7 14 (4.31%) Legal
8 9 (2.77%) Publishing
9 8 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.23%) Military
11 4 (1.23%) Retail
12 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.62%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Local Government
12 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (14.15%) Architect
2 45 (13.85%) Analyst
3 40 (12.31%) Security Engineer
4 39 (12.00%) Security Architect
4 39 (12.00%) Senior
5 24 (7.38%) Security Analyst
6 20 (6.15%) Lead
7 17 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 16 (4.92%) Administrator
8 16 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.00%) Consultant
9 13 (4.00%) Security Manager
9 13 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (3.69%) Business Analyst
10 12 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.08%) Security Officer
11 10 (3.08%) Tester
12 9 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 9 (2.77%) Security Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.46%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.23%) OAuth
2 16 (4.92%) SAML
3 10 (3.08%) SAP Basis
4 6 (1.85%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.85%) OpenID
5 5 (1.54%) .NET
5 5 (1.54%) JWT
6 4 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.92%) Kafka
7 3 (0.92%) Middleware
7 3 (0.92%) REST
7 3 (0.92%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.62%) ADO
8 2 (0.62%) CSS
8 2 (0.62%) HTML
8 2 (0.62%) Node.js
8 2 (0.62%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.62%) SOAP
8 2 (0.62%) Web Services
8 2 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.31%) Security Posture
2 25 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.08%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.08%) Cyber Threat
4 22 (6.77%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.62%) Security Operations Centre
6 13 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (3.38%) Taxonomies
8 9 (2.77%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.46%) PKI
10 7 (2.15%) IoT
11 5 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.23%) BYOD
12 4 (1.23%) CMDB
12 4 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.23%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.08%) Windows
2 31 (9.54%) Linux
3 23 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.38%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.08%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.85%) Unix
7 2 (0.62%) Rocky
7 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (45.54%) Cybersecurity
2 119 (36.62%) Incident Response
3 81 (24.92%) Security Operations
4 75 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 71 (21.85%) SIEM
6 57 (17.54%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 53 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (16.00%) Threat Intelligence
9 47 (14.46%) Identity Access Management
9 47 (14.46%) Risk Management
10 46 (14.15%) CI/CD
11 44 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (12.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 41 (12.62%) DevSecOps
13 41 (12.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 36 (11.08%) Threat Modelling
15 35 (10.77%) Agile
16 34 (10.46%) Computer Science
17 33 (10.15%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 31 (9.54%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.69%) Python
2 23 (7.08%) PowerShell
3 19 (5.85%) Bash
4 7 (2.15%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.85%) Java
5 6 (1.85%) SQL
6 3 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.62%) Bicep
7 2 (0.62%) Go
8 1 (0.31%) Rust
8 1 (0.31%) Scala
8 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 93 (28.62%) Security Cleared
2 81 (24.92%) SC Cleared
3 68 (20.92%) CISSP
4 46 (14.15%) Degree
5 44 (13.54%) CISM
6 19 (5.85%) CompTIA Security+
7 16 (4.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 15 (4.62%) CEH
8 15 (4.62%) Master's Degree
9 13 (4.00%) GIAC
10 12 (3.69%) DV Cleared
11 11 (3.38%) Azure Certification
11 11 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.38%) CREST Certified
12 10 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (3.08%) PhD
13 9 (2.77%) GCIH
14 8 (2.46%) CCSP
14 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (2.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (18.77%) NIST
2 57 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.85%) NCSC
4 16 (4.92%) GDPR
5 13 (4.00%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.69%) GRC
7 11 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (2.77%) NIST 800
9 5 (1.54%) SLA
10 4 (1.23%) PMO
10 4 (1.23%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.92%) COBIT
11 3 (0.92%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.62%) GxP
12 2 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.62%) PSD2
12 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (5.85%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.54%) Docker
3 3 (0.92%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.62%) GPFS
4 2 (0.62%) Lustre
4 2 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.62%) vSphere
5 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (7.08%) Kubernetes
1 23 (7.08%) SCCM
2 21 (6.46%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (5.23%) Terraform
4 13 (4.00%) Ansible
5 12 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.38%) Nessus
7 9 (2.77%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.46%) Norton AntiVirus
9 5 (1.54%) WSUS
10 3 (0.92%) Grafana
10 3 (0.92%) Nexpose
10 3 (0.92%) QRadar
11 2 (0.62%) CASB
11 2 (0.62%) OpenVAS
11 2 (0.62%) Podman
11 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.62%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.62%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.62%) SELinux
Vendors
1 73 (22.46%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.23%) Tenable
3 25 (7.69%) Qualys
4 23 (7.08%) Splunk
5 16 (4.92%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.62%) Rapid7
7 14 (4.31%) CyberArk
8 13 (4.00%) Okta
9 12 (3.69%) SAP
10 10 (3.08%) BiZZdesign
10 10 (3.08%) VMware
11 9 (2.77%) Centrify
11 9 (2.77%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (2.46%) Cisco
12 8 (2.46%) McAfee
12 8 (2.46%) Symantec
13 7 (2.15%) Apple
13 7 (2.15%) Google
13 7 (2.15%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.85%) ForeScout