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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 290 286
Rank change year-on-year +57 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 416 202 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 0.82% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.90% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 124 233
10th Percentile £335 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £567 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +0.80% -2.17%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £675
90th Percentile £713 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £571 £563
% change year-on-year -8.06% +1.51% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 9
10th Percentile £41.94 - -
25th Percentile £55.19 £45.75 £42.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% +22.47% -31.54%
75th Percentile £84.00 £63.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year +23.85% +22.47% -31.54%

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 31,861 22,379 32,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.57% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,379 14,469 21,822
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 £614 £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 1,986 803 2,148
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +19 164 £585 -2.50% 48
North of England +21 109 £520 +4.00% 30
Yorkshire +6 68 £500 - 10
South East -41 65 £488 -11.36% 31
North West -2 41 £583 +29.44% 14
Midlands -36 31 £500 -24.53% 9
West Midlands -49 24 £469 -29.25% 7
South West -17 22 £520 +15.44% 12
East of England -23 11 £480 -31.43% 9
East Midlands -24 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 30 (7.21%) Confluence
2 8 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (4.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 143 (34.38%) Azure
2 116 (27.88%) AWS
3 48 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 42 (10.10%) GCP
5 39 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (5.29%) SaaS
7 19 (4.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (2.64%) Serverless
10 10 (2.40%) OpenShift
11 9 (2.16%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.92%) GitHub
12 8 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.44%) IaaS
14 6 (1.44%) PaaS
15 5 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 64 (15.38%) Firewall
2 49 (11.78%) Network Security
3 21 (5.05%) DNS
4 15 (3.61%) VPN
5 12 (2.88%) DHCP
6 11 (2.64%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.16%) Wireless
8 6 (1.44%) HTTPS
8 6 (1.44%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.44%) SSL
9 5 (1.20%) WAN
10 4 (0.96%) Internet
10 4 (0.96%) LAN
11 3 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.72%) SAN
12 2 (0.48%) NAS
12 2 (0.48%) S/MIME
12 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.24%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.16%) Power BI
2 4 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.24%) DB2
5 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (8.65%) JIRA
2 9 (2.16%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.16%) Snyk
3 4 (0.96%) GitLab
4 3 (0.72%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.48%) Git
6 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.24%) git-flow
6 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.24%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 114 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.07%) Finance
3 64 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.85%) Aerospace
7 15 (3.61%) Legal
8 13 (3.13%) Publishing
9 12 (2.88%) Banking
10 8 (1.92%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.96%) Military
11 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.96%) Retail
12 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Local Government
13 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (15.14%) Security Engineer
2 56 (13.46%) Architect
3 51 (12.26%) Analyst
4 44 (10.58%) Senior
5 42 (10.10%) Security Architect
6 35 (8.41%) Lead
7 23 (5.53%) Security Analyst
8 20 (4.81%) Consultant
9 19 (4.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 17 (4.09%) Administrator
10 17 (4.09%) Business Analyst
10 17 (4.09%) Security Manager
11 12 (2.88%) Security Consultant
11 12 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (2.88%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
12 11 (2.64%) Project Manager
12 11 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (2.40%) Senior Security Engineer
13 10 (2.40%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.33%) OAuth
2 17 (4.09%) SAML
3 14 (3.37%) SAP Basis
4 8 (1.92%) OpenID
5 6 (1.44%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.44%) LDAP
6 5 (1.20%) .NET
6 5 (1.20%) JWT
7 4 (0.96%) Kafka
7 4 (0.96%) LangChain
7 4 (0.96%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.96%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.96%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.72%) Middleware
8 3 (0.72%) REST
9 2 (0.48%) ADO
9 2 (0.48%) CSS
9 2 (0.48%) SOAP
9 2 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.22%) Security Posture
2 35 (8.41%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.73%) Onboarding
4 27 (6.49%) Management Information System
5 22 (5.29%) Operational Technology
6 19 (4.57%) Cyber Threat
7 15 (3.61%) PKI
7 15 (3.61%) Taxonomies
8 14 (3.37%) Cloud Security Posture
9 13 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
9 13 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (2.40%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.16%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.92%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.68%) IoT
14 6 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.20%) BYOD
15 5 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.34%) Windows
2 39 (9.38%) Linux
3 19 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.16%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.16%) Unix
5 5 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Rocky
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.24%) Android
8 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (43.99%) Cybersecurity
2 122 (29.33%) Incident Response
3 94 (22.60%) Cloud Security
4 83 (19.95%) SIEM
5 79 (18.99%) Security Operations
6 73 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (16.35%) CI/CD
8 61 (14.66%) Risk Management
9 60 (14.42%) Threat Modelling
10 57 (13.70%) Identity Access Management
11 56 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 55 (13.22%) DevSecOps
13 52 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
14 50 (12.02%) Security Architecture
15 47 (11.30%) Computer Science
15 47 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (11.30%) Roadmaps
15 47 (11.30%) Threat Intelligence
16 44 (10.58%) Agile
16 44 (10.58%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 57 (13.70%) Python
2 32 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 26 (6.25%) Bash
4 13 (3.13%) SQL
5 6 (1.44%) Java
5 6 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.96%) Bicep
6 4 (0.96%) Korn
7 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.48%) Go
9 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.24%) Rust
9 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 129 (31.01%) Security Cleared
2 103 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 83 (19.95%) CISSP
4 66 (15.87%) Degree
5 49 (11.78%) CISM
6 26 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (4.57%) Master's Degree
8 16 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (3.37%) CEH
10 14 (3.37%) GIAC
11 13 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 13 (3.13%) CCSP
11 13 (3.13%) CREST Certified
11 13 (3.13%) DV Cleared
12 12 (2.88%) PMP
13 10 (2.40%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.40%) PhD
13 10 (2.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (18.51%) NIST
2 67 (16.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (5.77%) GDPR
4 21 (5.05%) NCSC
5 18 (4.33%) GRC
6 15 (3.61%) NIST 800
6 15 (3.61%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.88%) SLA
8 10 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (2.16%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.68%) HIPAA
10 7 (1.68%) QA
11 6 (1.44%) PMO
12 5 (1.20%) COBIT
13 4 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.72%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.72%) GxP
15 2 (0.48%) ISO 31000
15 2 (0.48%) PSD2
15 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (7.21%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.53%) Docker
3 10 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.48%) GPFS
6 2 (0.48%) Lustre
6 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (7.45%) Single Sign-On
2 30 (7.21%) Kubernetes
3 22 (5.29%) Terraform
4 19 (4.57%) Nessus
5 14 (3.37%) Ansible
5 14 (3.37%) SCCM
6 11 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (1.68%) CASB
9 5 (1.20%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.72%) Grafana
10 3 (0.72%) OpenVAS
10 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.72%) QRadar
10 3 (0.72%) WSUS
11 2 (0.48%) Podman
11 2 (0.48%) Puppet
11 2 (0.48%) SCOM
11 2 (0.48%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.48%) SELinux
Vendors
1 80 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.54%) Tenable
3 41 (9.86%) Splunk
4 33 (7.93%) Qualys
5 24 (5.77%) ServiceNow
6 21 (5.05%) CyberArk
6 21 (5.05%) Okta
7 20 (4.81%) SAP
8 17 (4.09%) Rapid7
9 11 (2.64%) Cisco
9 11 (2.64%) Google
10 10 (2.40%) BiZZdesign
11 9 (2.16%) Centrify
11 9 (2.16%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (2.16%) VMware
12 7 (1.68%) Apple
12 7 (1.68%) IBM
12 7 (1.68%) Remedy
13 6 (1.44%) ForeScout
13 6 (1.44%) Oracle