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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 266 266
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +81
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 302 224 329
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.84% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.95% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 143 247
10th Percentile £369 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 20
10th Percentile - £50.63 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £51.56 £42.25
Median hourly rate £49.73 £53.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +9.69% -24.90%
75th Percentile £57.25 £56.56 £67.50
90th Percentile - £57.88 £67.63
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year +2.33% +9.69% -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 27,653 23,679 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.08% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,613 14,524 21,598
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,731 761 1,481
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -12 124 £575 -4.17% 27
North of England -5 65 £500 -16.67% 30
South East -29 45 £475 -9.52% 31
Yorkshire -4 41 £500 - 10
North West -9 24 £475 -25.49% 17
South West -13 20 £550 +29.41% 12
Midlands -38 19 £500 +51.52% 14
West Midlands -30 15 £525 +59.09% 10
East of England -18 14 £465 +9.41% 14
East Midlands -17 4 £419 - 4
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 24 (7.95%) Confluence
2 8 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 114 (37.75%) Azure
2 91 (30.13%) AWS
3 39 (12.91%) Entra ID
4 37 (12.25%) GCP
5 34 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (6.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (5.30%) SaaS
8 14 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (2.98%) Serverless
10 7 (2.32%) IaaS
11 6 (1.99%) GitHub
11 6 (1.99%) PaaS
12 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Storage
13 3 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.99%) OCI
13 3 (0.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 56 (18.54%) Firewall
2 42 (13.91%) Network Security
3 14 (4.64%) VPN
4 13 (4.30%) DNS
5 11 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.32%) WAN
7 6 (1.99%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.99%) LAN
8 5 (1.66%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.32%) DHCP
9 4 (1.32%) SSL
9 4 (1.32%) Wireless
10 3 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.66%) HTTP
11 2 (0.66%) Internet
11 2 (0.66%) IPsec
11 2 (0.66%) S/MIME
11 2 (0.66%) SAN
11 2 (0.66%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.99%) Power BI
2 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.33%) DB2
3 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (9.93%) JIRA
2 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.99%) Snyk
4 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.66%) Git
4 2 (0.66%) GitLab
4 2 (0.66%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 87 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 59 (19.54%) Finance
3 45 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.97%) Banking
7 13 (4.30%) Legal
8 8 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.32%) Publishing
10 6 (1.99%) Retail
11 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.32%) Military
11 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.66%) Local Government
12 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.33%) Front Office
13 1 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (16.56%) Architect
2 47 (15.56%) Analyst
3 42 (13.91%) Security Architect
4 39 (12.91%) Senior
5 37 (12.25%) Security Engineer
6 26 (8.61%) Security Analyst
7 19 (6.29%) Lead
8 17 (5.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 15 (4.97%) Consultant
9 15 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.97%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.97%) Security Manager
12 11 (3.64%) Administrator
12 11 (3.64%) Security Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Security Officer
14 9 (2.98%) Tester
15 8 (2.65%) Business Analyst
15 8 (2.65%) IT Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.63%) OAuth
2 16 (5.30%) SAML
3 8 (2.65%) SAP Basis
4 6 (1.99%) OpenID
5 5 (1.66%) .NET
5 5 (1.66%) JWT
6 4 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.66%) ADO
7 2 (0.66%) Kafka
7 2 (0.66%) LDAP
7 2 (0.66%) Middleware
7 2 (0.66%) Node.js
7 2 (0.66%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.66%) REST
7 2 (0.66%) Spring
7 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.66%) Web Services
8 1 (0.33%) JSSE
8 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.92%) Security Posture
2 25 (8.28%) Cyber Threat
3 24 (7.95%) Cloud Native
4 22 (7.28%) Management Information System
5 21 (6.95%) Onboarding
6 19 (6.29%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.64%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.98%) Taxonomies
9 8 (2.65%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.32%) PKI
11 5 (1.66%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.32%) BYOD
12 4 (1.32%) CSOC
12 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.99%) CMDB
13 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.22%) Windows
2 28 (9.27%) Linux
3 21 (6.95%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.31%) Mac OS
6 8 (2.65%) Unix
7 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) Rocky
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (49.67%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (37.42%) Incident Response
3 83 (27.48%) Security Operations
4 81 (26.82%) SIEM
5 77 (25.50%) Cloud Security
6 53 (17.55%) Identity Access Management
7 52 (17.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 44 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (14.57%) Threat Intelligence
9 41 (13.58%) Risk Management
9 41 (13.58%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 39 (12.91%) CI/CD
10 39 (12.91%) DevSecOps
11 38 (12.58%) Threat Modelling
12 34 (11.26%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 34 (11.26%) Information Security
13 32 (10.60%) Agile
13 32 (10.60%) Computer Science
13 32 (10.60%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.92%) Python
2 23 (7.62%) PowerShell
3 20 (6.62%) Bash
4 7 (2.32%) SQL
5 6 (1.99%) Java
5 6 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.66%) Bicep
8 1 (0.33%) Go
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
8 1 (0.33%) Rust
8 1 (0.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 85 (28.15%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 73 (24.17%) CISSP
4 44 (14.57%) Degree
5 43 (14.24%) CISM
6 22 (7.28%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (6.29%) CEH
8 16 (5.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (4.97%) Master's Degree
10 13 (4.30%) Azure Certification
10 13 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (3.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 11 (3.64%) AWS Certification
11 11 (3.64%) CCSP
12 10 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (3.31%) CREST Certified
12 10 (3.31%) GCIH
12 10 (3.31%) PhD
13 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (2.98%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (23.18%) NIST
2 62 (20.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.62%) GDPR
4 17 (5.63%) PCI DSS
5 16 (5.30%) NCSC
6 9 (2.98%) GRC
6 9 (2.98%) NIST 800
7 8 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.99%) COBIT
9 5 (1.66%) PSD2
10 4 (1.32%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.32%) PMO
10 4 (1.32%) SLA
11 3 (0.99%) ITGC
11 3 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.66%) GxP
12 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.66%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (8.28%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.29%) Docker
3 3 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.33%) GPFS
5 1 (0.33%) Lustre
5 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.28%) SCCM
3 19 (6.29%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (4.97%) Nessus
5 12 (3.97%) Ansible
6 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.64%) Terraform
7 9 (2.98%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (2.32%) Norton AntiVirus
9 5 (1.66%) WSUS
10 4 (1.32%) CASB
11 3 (0.99%) Grafana
11 3 (0.99%) Nexpose
11 3 (0.99%) QRadar
12 2 (0.66%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.66%) Podman
12 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.66%) Puppet
12 2 (0.66%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.66%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 77 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.26%) Qualys
3 29 (9.60%) Tenable
4 23 (7.62%) Splunk
5 14 (4.64%) CyberArk
5 14 (4.64%) Rapid7
6 13 (4.30%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (3.64%) Google
7 11 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.64%) VMware
8 10 (3.31%) BiZZdesign
8 10 (3.31%) Okta
8 10 (3.31%) SAP
9 9 (2.98%) Centrify
9 9 (2.98%) McAfee
10 8 (2.65%) Cisco
10 8 (2.65%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.32%) Apple
11 7 (2.32%) Symantec
12 5 (1.66%) Citrix