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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 247 271
Rank change year-on-year +46 +24 +2
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 651 297 294
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.07% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.18% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 209 208
10th Percentile £363 £313 £385
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £631 £619 £675
90th Percentile £735 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 7 3
10th Percentile £64.75 £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% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83.25 £81.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £89.15 £102.20 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% -11.54%

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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +30 277 £563 +7.14% 169
South East +14 149 £550 +4.76% 87
North of England +24 122 £517 -3.81% 69
Yorkshire +13 62 £550 +2.33% 26
North West -17 50 £506 -2.71% 37
South West -20 40 £588 +46.88% 40
Midlands -32 28 £525 - 35
East of England -11 25 £511 +13.61% 24
West Midlands -27 25 £525 -20.75% 17
North East - 10 £375 - 6
East Midlands -14 2 £638 +37.84% 18
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 21 (3.23%) Confluence
2 20 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.61%) Apache
3 17 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.84%) Jupyter
5 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.61%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 216 (33.18%) Azure
2 169 (25.96%) AWS
3 72 (11.06%) Entra ID
4 66 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (9.98%) GCP
6 58 (8.91%) GitHub
7 35 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.84%) Azure Sentinel
10 23 (3.53%) SaaS
11 20 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (2.92%) OCI
13 18 (2.76%) Power Platform
14 16 (2.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (2.15%) Amazon S3
15 14 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.54%) Datadog
17 10 (1.54%) OpenShift
17 10 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (10.60%) Network Security
2 40 (6.14%) Firewall
3 17 (2.61%) DNS
4 15 (2.30%) WAN
5 13 (2.00%) MPLS
6 12 (1.84%) BGP
6 12 (1.84%) IPsec
6 12 (1.84%) LAN
7 11 (1.69%) VPN
8 9 (1.38%) Broadband
9 8 (1.23%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.77%) Intranet
11 4 (0.61%) DHCP
11 4 (0.61%) Internet
11 4 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.61%) MQTT
12 3 (0.46%) HTTP
12 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.46%) NGFW
12 3 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.15%) Power BI
2 10 (1.54%) Big Data
3 8 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.77%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.46%) Trino
9 2 (0.31%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.31%) Power Query
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.15%) Redis
10 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (6.61%) GitLab
2 29 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.99%) JIRA
4 14 (2.15%) Git
5 11 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.92%) Snyk
7 5 (0.77%) Selenium
8 4 (0.61%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.46%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.46%) InstallShield
9 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.31%) Flyway
10 2 (0.31%) git-flow
10 2 (0.31%) JUnit
10 2 (0.31%) Mockito
10 2 (0.31%) MSI
10 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.31%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 218 (33.49%) Social Skills
2 133 (20.43%) Finance
3 85 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.84%) Banking
6 34 (5.22%) Aerospace
7 26 (3.99%) Legal
8 21 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.61%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.84%) Military
11 11 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.54%) Local Government
13 6 (0.92%) Law
13 6 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.77%) Publishing
15 4 (0.61%) Retail
16 3 (0.46%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 103 (15.82%) Analyst
2 80 (12.29%) Lead
3 65 (9.98%) Consultant
4 55 (8.45%) Senior
5 53 (8.14%) Architect
5 53 (8.14%) Security Engineer
6 46 (7.07%) Security Analyst
7 42 (6.45%) Security Consultant
8 36 (5.53%) Security Architect
9 28 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (4.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 27 (4.15%) Security Manager
11 26 (3.99%) Security Specialist
12 23 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 22 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.38%) Vulnerability Analyst
14 21 (3.23%) Developer
15 19 (2.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 18 (2.76%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 18 (2.76%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (14.59%) Terraform
2 15 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (2.15%) REST
4 13 (2.00%) Loki
5 9 (1.38%) Kafka
6 8 (1.23%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.08%) RESTful
8 6 (0.92%) ModSecurity
9 5 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (0.77%) SLSA
10 4 (0.61%) .NET
10 4 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (0.61%) gRPC
10 4 (0.61%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.61%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (0.61%) SAP Basis
11 3 (0.46%) JDBC
11 3 (0.46%) JSON
11 3 (0.46%) OAuth
11 3 (0.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 104 (15.98%) Security Posture
2 55 (8.45%) Onboarding
3 53 (8.14%) Cyber Threat
4 49 (7.53%) Operational Technology
5 41 (6.30%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.53%) Security Operations Centre
7 33 (5.07%) Management Information System
8 21 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
9 20 (3.07%) Cyber Defence
10 17 (2.61%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.61%) Virtual Team
11 14 (2.15%) CMDB
11 14 (2.15%) SCADA
12 12 (1.84%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.38%) Social Media
15 8 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
15 8 (1.23%) NHS
16 7 (1.08%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 86 (13.21%) Windows
2 75 (11.52%) Linux
3 23 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.30%) Mac OS
5 15 (2.30%) Unix
6 6 (0.92%) AIX
7 5 (0.77%) HPUX
7 5 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.77%) Solaris
7 5 (0.77%) SUSE
7 5 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (53.15%) Cybersecurity
2 186 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 179 (27.50%) Incident Response
4 161 (24.73%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 160 (24.58%) CI/CD
6 140 (21.51%) Cloud Security
7 136 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 135 (20.74%) Risk Management
9 131 (20.12%) Security Operations
10 116 (17.82%) SIEM
11 108 (16.59%) DevSecOps
12 101 (15.51%) Infrastructure as Code
13 100 (15.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 90 (13.82%) DevOps
15 88 (13.52%) Security Architecture
16 85 (13.06%) Threat Modelling
17 77 (11.83%) Identity Access Management
18 76 (11.67%) Information Security
19 74 (11.37%) Application Security
20 69 (10.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 108 (16.59%) Python
2 82 (12.60%) PowerShell
3 40 (6.14%) Bash
4 26 (3.99%) Bicep
5 21 (3.23%) SQL
6 12 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.08%) Java
8 7 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.61%) C#
9 4 (0.61%) Go
9 4 (0.61%) Rust
10 3 (0.46%) Korn
10 3 (0.46%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.31%) PromQL
12 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 241 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 171 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 117 (17.97%) CISSP
4 82 (12.60%) CISM
5 57 (8.76%) Cisco Certification
6 56 (8.60%) DV Cleared
7 52 (7.99%) Degree
8 49 (7.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 28 (4.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 27 (4.15%) CCSP
11 20 (3.07%) AWS Certification
12 18 (2.76%) Azure Certification
13 17 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (2.46%) CEH
15 14 (2.15%) CRISC
15 14 (2.15%) GIAC
15 14 (2.15%) PMP
16 12 (1.84%) CISA
16 12 (1.84%) PMI Certification
17 11 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (20.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 126 (19.35%) NIST
3 60 (9.22%) NCSC
4 52 (7.99%) GDPR
5 46 (7.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 45 (6.91%) GRC
7 27 (4.15%) SLA
8 21 (3.23%) NIST 800
9 19 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 15 (2.30%) PCI DSS
10 15 (2.30%) QA
11 10 (1.54%) SOC 2
12 9 (1.38%) COBIT
12 9 (1.38%) Data Quality
12 9 (1.38%) ISO 31000
13 6 (0.92%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.77%) Def Stans
14 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 59 (9.06%) Docker
2 56 (8.60%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.46%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.31%) Firmware
7 2 (0.31%) HDFS
8 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 90 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.45%) Ansible
3 32 (4.92%) Grafana
4 29 (4.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.46%) Argo
7 15 (2.30%) SCCM
8 11 (1.69%) Nessus
9 9 (1.38%) Puppet
9 9 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.77%) vRealize
11 4 (0.61%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.61%) OPNET
11 4 (0.61%) Podman
11 4 (0.61%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.61%) QRadar
12 2 (0.31%) Cilium
12 2 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.31%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.31%) systemd
Vendors
1 156 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.83%) Qualys
3 50 (7.68%) Tenable
4 37 (5.68%) Splunk
5 35 (5.38%) ServiceNow
6 32 (4.92%) Oracle
7 24 (3.69%) CrowdStrike
8 20 (3.07%) Trend Micro
9 19 (2.92%) VMware
10 18 (2.76%) Google
11 16 (2.46%) Rapid7
12 13 (2.00%) Tanium
13 12 (1.84%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.69%) Databricks
15 9 (1.38%) Okta
16 8 (1.23%) Clearswift
16 8 (1.23%) Remedy
17 7 (1.08%) Apple
17 7 (1.08%) Veracode
18 6 (0.92%) Fortinet