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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 244 269
Rank change year-on-year +43 +25 +35
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 599 284 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.04% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.15% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 190 217
10th Percentile £357 £313 £400
25th Percentile £474 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £768 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 7 1
10th Percentile £63.25 £28.72 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £30.06 £56.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% -5.22% +119.05%
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% +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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +21 248 £550 +2.33% 118
North of England +38 138 £540 -11.76% 61
South East -19 113 £525 +0.38% 101
Yorkshire +17 72 £550 - 23
North West -10 57 £540 -11.76% 24
South West -13 38 £554 +38.50% 55
Midlands -26 33 £525 -16.00% 37
West Midlands -48 26 £438 -33.96% 20
East of England -22 16 £513 +7.89% 32
North East - 9 £375 - 15
East Midlands -9 6 £638 +112.50% 17
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 (3.67%) Confluence
2 18 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.34%) Apache
5 12 (2.00%) Jupyter
6 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 174 (29.05%) Azure
2 150 (25.04%) AWS
3 61 (10.18%) Entra ID
4 54 (9.02%) GCP
5 51 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (5.01%) GitHub
7 26 (4.34%) SaaS
8 25 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
11 15 (2.50%) OCI
11 15 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 14 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.17%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.00%) Serverless
15 10 (1.67%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 70 (11.69%) Network Security
2 47 (7.85%) Firewall
3 22 (3.67%) DNS
4 13 (2.17%) DHCP
5 12 (2.00%) WAN
6 11 (1.84%) VPN
7 10 (1.67%) BGP
7 10 (1.67%) IPsec
7 10 (1.67%) LAN
7 10 (1.67%) MPLS
8 9 (1.50%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.00%) HTTPS
9 6 (1.00%) Wireless
10 5 (0.83%) Internet
11 4 (0.67%) Broadband
11 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.67%) MQTT
11 4 (0.67%) NGFW
11 4 (0.67%) SSL
12 2 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.17%) Power BI
2 8 (1.34%) Big Data
3 6 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.17%) Trino
Development Applications
1 30 (5.01%) GitLab
2 29 (4.84%) JIRA
3 19 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.84%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.34%) Git
5 8 (1.34%) Snyk
6 3 (0.50%) AdminStudio
6 3 (0.50%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.50%) git-flow
6 3 (0.50%) InstallShield
6 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.33%) Flyway
7 2 (0.33%) JUnit
7 2 (0.33%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.33%) Mockito
8 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.17%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.17%) TruffleHog
General
1 176 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 125 (20.87%) Finance
3 85 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.84%) Banking
6 26 (4.34%) Aerospace
7 24 (4.01%) Legal
8 19 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.34%) Local Government
12 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.34%) Publishing
13 7 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.00%) Law
14 6 (1.00%) Military
15 5 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.33%) Arabic Language
17 1 (0.17%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 82 (13.69%) Analyst
2 65 (10.85%) Lead
3 59 (9.85%) Security Engineer
4 57 (9.52%) Architect
5 56 (9.35%) Consultant
6 45 (7.51%) Senior
7 38 (6.34%) Security Architect
8 34 (5.68%) Security Consultant
9 32 (5.34%) Security Analyst
10 24 (4.01%) Security Manager
11 22 (3.67%) Security Specialist
12 21 (3.51%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 20 (3.34%) Developer
14 19 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 19 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 18 (3.01%) Business Analyst
16 17 (2.84%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 16 (2.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
18 15 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (1.67%) Loki
3 8 (1.34%) SAP Basis
4 7 (1.17%) REST
4 7 (1.17%) RESTful
5 6 (1.00%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.00%) Kafka
5 6 (1.00%) LangChain
5 6 (1.00%) LDAP
5 6 (1.00%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.00%) scikit-learn
6 5 (0.83%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (0.67%) gRPC
7 4 (0.67%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.67%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (0.50%) OAuth
8 3 (0.50%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.50%) SOAP
8 3 (0.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 97 (16.19%) Security Posture
2 48 (8.01%) Operational Technology
3 44 (7.35%) Cloud Native
4 42 (7.01%) Onboarding
5 36 (6.01%) Management Information System
6 31 (5.18%) Cyber Threat
7 22 (3.67%) Security Operations Centre
8 21 (3.51%) Virtual Team
9 19 (3.17%) Cyber Defence
10 18 (3.01%) Cloud Security Posture
11 15 (2.50%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.00%) Data Centre
12 12 (2.00%) SCADA
13 11 (1.84%) CMDB
13 11 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.67%) PKI
15 9 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.50%) Public Cloud
16 8 (1.34%) Taxonomies
17 7 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.36%) Linux
2 79 (13.19%) Windows
3 23 (3.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (3.34%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.17%) Unix
6 11 (1.84%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.00%) AIX
9 5 (0.83%) HPUX
9 5 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.83%) Solaris
9 5 (0.83%) SUSE
10 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.33%) 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%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (45.74%) Cybersecurity
2 143 (23.87%) Incident Response
3 134 (22.37%) CI/CD
3 134 (22.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 118 (19.70%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 115 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 115 (19.20%) Risk Management
6 113 (18.86%) Cloud Security
7 109 (18.20%) Security Operations
8 108 (18.03%) SIEM
9 91 (15.19%) Threat Modelling
10 88 (14.69%) Security Architecture
10 88 (14.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 82 (13.69%) DevSecOps
12 77 (12.85%) DevOps
13 74 (12.35%) Roadmaps
14 60 (10.02%) Application Security
14 60 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 59 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (9.02%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (15.53%) Python
2 50 (8.35%) PowerShell
3 34 (5.68%) Bash
4 16 (2.67%) SQL
5 12 (2.00%) Bicep
6 11 (1.84%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.34%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.17%) Java
9 4 (0.67%) Korn
9 4 (0.67%) Rust
10 3 (0.50%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) Go
11 2 (0.33%) PromQL
11 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 204 (34.06%) Security Cleared
2 135 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 111 (18.53%) CISSP
4 68 (11.35%) CISM
5 64 (10.68%) Degree
6 49 (8.18%) DV Cleared
7 42 (7.01%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (6.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 28 (4.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 26 (4.34%) CCSP
11 19 (3.17%) GIAC
12 16 (2.67%) CRISC
13 15 (2.50%) AWS Certification
14 14 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (2.00%) CISA
15 12 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (1.67%) CEH
17 10 (1.67%) CESG Certified Professional
17 10 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (19.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 101 (16.86%) NIST
3 45 (7.51%) GRC
4 43 (7.18%) GDPR
5 39 (6.51%) NCSC
6 31 (5.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (4.01%) SLA
8 15 (2.50%) NIST 800
8 15 (2.50%) PCI DSS
9 14 (2.34%) SOC 2
10 12 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (2.00%) QA
11 11 (1.84%) ISO 31000
12 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
12 7 (1.17%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.50%) COBIT
15 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 51 (8.51%) Docker
2 47 (7.85%) Active Directory
3 27 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.33%) HDFS
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) GPFS
6 1 (0.17%) Lustre
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (10.35%) Terraform
2 60 (10.02%) Kubernetes
3 31 (5.18%) Ansible
4 26 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (3.84%) Grafana
6 21 (3.51%) Nessus
7 17 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (2.50%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.67%) Argo
9 10 (1.67%) SCCM
10 9 (1.50%) Puppet
11 5 (0.83%) CASB
11 5 (0.83%) vRealize
12 4 (0.67%) OPNET
12 4 (0.67%) Podman
12 4 (0.67%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.50%) OpenVAS
14 2 (0.33%) Nexpose
14 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 118 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.02%) Tenable
3 51 (8.51%) Qualys
4 43 (7.18%) Splunk
5 39 (6.51%) ServiceNow
6 27 (4.51%) Oracle
7 21 (3.51%) CrowdStrike
7 21 (3.51%) Rapid7
7 21 (3.51%) Trend Micro
8 17 (2.84%) Okta
9 16 (2.67%) Google
10 14 (2.34%) SAP
11 13 (2.17%) VMware
12 12 (2.00%) Databricks
12 12 (2.00%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.00%) Remedy
13 10 (1.67%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.67%) Tanium
14 9 (1.50%) IBM
15 8 (1.34%) Cisco