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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 243 279
Rank change year-on-year +37 +36 +21
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 549 266 310
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 1.06% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.16% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 181 220
10th Percentile £360 £313 £389
25th Percentile £468 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £527 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £617 £648 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £766
UK median daily rate £538 £535 £545
% change year-on-year +0.51% -1.88% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 1
10th Percentile £48.84 £28.12 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £29.02 £56.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £43.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.56% -25.23% +119.05%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.05 £88.98 -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £43.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +89.56% -25.23% +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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +6 220 £550 -0.50% 95
North of England +41 141 £540 -15.29% 60
South East -23 101 £525 - 89
Yorkshire +17 75 £550 - 22
North West +7 58 £540 -8.09% 23
South West -29 34 £554 +38.50% 52
Midlands -37 32 £525 -16.00% 30
West Midlands -40 26 £438 -33.96% 19
North East -29 8 £375 -45.45% 16
East of England -32 7 £513 -8.89% 37
East Midlands -13 5 £638 +112.50% 11
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 16 (2.91%) Apache Spark
1 16 (2.91%) Confluence
2 13 (2.37%) Apache
2 13 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.19%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 162 (29.51%) Azure
2 134 (24.41%) AWS
3 60 (10.93%) Entra ID
4 50 (9.11%) GCP
5 49 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (5.10%) SaaS
7 25 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 20 (3.64%) GitHub
9 15 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.37%) OpenShift
10 13 (2.37%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.64%) Serverless
13 8 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.46%) IaaS
13 8 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (11.84%) Network Security
2 47 (8.56%) Firewall
3 21 (3.83%) DNS
4 13 (2.37%) DHCP
5 10 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.64%) VPN
7 8 (1.46%) WAN
8 7 (1.28%) BGP
8 7 (1.28%) IPsec
8 7 (1.28%) LAN
8 7 (1.28%) MPLS
9 6 (1.09%) HTTPS
9 6 (1.09%) Wireless
10 5 (0.91%) Internet
10 5 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.73%) MQTT
11 4 (0.73%) NGFW
11 4 (0.73%) SSL
12 2 (0.36%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.00%) Power BI
2 6 (1.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.73%) Big Data
5 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.18%) Redis
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (5.28%) GitLab
1 29 (5.28%) JIRA
2 18 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 8 (1.46%) Git
4 8 (1.46%) Snyk
5 3 (0.55%) AdminStudio
5 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.55%) git-flow
5 3 (0.55%) InstallShield
5 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.36%) Flyway
6 2 (0.36%) JUnit
6 2 (0.36%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.36%) Mockito
7 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.18%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.18%) TruffleHog
General
1 160 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 120 (21.86%) Finance
3 83 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.46%) Banking
6 24 (4.37%) Legal
7 20 (3.64%) Aerospace
7 20 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (3.46%) Financial Institution
9 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.19%) Publishing
11 9 (1.64%) Local Government
12 8 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.91%) Law
16 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.36%) Arabic Language
17 2 (0.36%) Military
18 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (13.48%) Analyst
2 56 (10.20%) Security Engineer
3 55 (10.02%) Architect
3 55 (10.02%) Consultant
4 53 (9.65%) Lead
5 42 (7.65%) Senior
6 38 (6.92%) Security Architect
7 33 (6.01%) Security Consultant
8 28 (5.10%) Security Analyst
9 23 (4.19%) Security Manager
10 22 (4.01%) Security Specialist
11 19 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.28%) Business Analyst
13 17 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 16 (2.91%) Developer
14 16 (2.91%) DevSecOps Consultant
14 16 (2.91%) Vulnerability Analyst
15 15 (2.73%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 15 (2.73%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 14 (2.55%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (2.19%) SAP Basis
3 7 (1.28%) RESTful
4 6 (1.09%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.09%) Kafka
4 6 (1.09%) LangChain
4 6 (1.09%) LDAP
4 6 (1.09%) PyTorch
4 6 (1.09%) REST
4 6 (1.09%) scikit-learn
5 4 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (0.73%) gRPC
5 4 (0.73%) Keycloak
5 4 (0.73%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (0.55%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.55%) OAuth
6 3 (0.55%) OpenAPI
6 3 (0.55%) SLSA
6 3 (0.55%) SOAP
6 3 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.03%) Security Posture
2 48 (8.74%) Operational Technology
3 41 (7.47%) Cloud Native
4 37 (6.74%) Onboarding
5 34 (6.19%) Management Information System
6 22 (4.01%) Cyber Threat
7 20 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
8 19 (3.46%) Virtual Team
9 18 (3.28%) Cyber Defence
10 15 (2.73%) Product Ownership
11 12 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
11 12 (2.19%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.19%) SCADA
11 12 (2.19%) Taxonomies
12 11 (2.00%) PKI
13 9 (1.64%) CMDB
13 9 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.64%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.28%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 77 (14.03%) Linux
1 77 (14.03%) Windows
2 24 (4.37%) Windows Server
3 20 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (3.64%) Unix
4 8 (1.46%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.09%) AIX
7 5 (0.91%) HPUX
7 5 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.91%) Solaris
7 5 (0.91%) SUSE
8 4 (0.73%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Android
10 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.18%) Rocky
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (45.36%) Cybersecurity
2 124 (22.59%) Incident Response
3 122 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 111 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 111 (20.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 109 (19.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 107 (19.49%) SIEM
7 104 (18.94%) Cloud Security
8 102 (18.58%) Risk Management
9 92 (16.76%) Security Operations
10 91 (16.58%) Threat Modelling
11 88 (16.03%) Security Architecture
12 76 (13.84%) DevOps
12 76 (13.84%) Roadmaps
12 76 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 69 (12.57%) DevSecOps
14 57 (10.38%) Application Security
15 56 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (8.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (14.39%) Python
2 45 (8.20%) PowerShell
3 22 (4.01%) Bash
4 13 (2.37%) SQL
5 10 (1.82%) Bicep
5 10 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.46%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.28%) Java
8 6 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.73%) Korn
9 4 (0.73%) Rust
10 3 (0.55%) Perl
11 2 (0.36%) Go
11 2 (0.36%) PromQL
11 2 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 177 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 111 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 108 (19.67%) CISSP
4 67 (12.20%) Degree
5 65 (11.84%) CISM
6 44 (8.01%) DV Cleared
7 37 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (6.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 28 (5.10%) CompTIA Security+
10 26 (4.74%) CCSP
11 20 (3.64%) GIAC
12 16 (2.91%) CRISC
13 15 (2.73%) AWS Certification
14 12 (2.19%) CISA
14 12 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (1.82%) PMP
17 9 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (1.64%) CEH
17 9 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (17.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 98 (17.85%) NIST
2 43 (7.83%) GRC
3 36 (6.56%) NCSC
4 32 (5.83%) GDPR
5 27 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (3.83%) SLA
7 14 (2.55%) NIST 800
7 14 (2.55%) SOC 2
8 13 (2.37%) PCI DSS
9 11 (2.00%) ISO 31000
9 11 (2.00%) QA
10 8 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.28%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.09%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 3 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 46 (8.38%) Active Directory
2 42 (7.65%) Docker
3 25 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) GPFS
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Lustre
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 52 (9.47%) Terraform
3 27 (4.92%) Ansible
4 21 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (3.83%) Nessus
5 20 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (2.73%) Grafana
6 15 (2.73%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.82%) SCCM
8 8 (1.46%) Puppet
9 5 (0.91%) CASB
9 5 (0.91%) vRealize
10 4 (0.73%) Podman
11 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.55%) OpenVAS
12 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.36%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.36%) OPNET
12 2 (0.36%) SELinux
12 2 (0.36%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 99 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.20%) Tenable
3 48 (8.74%) Qualys
4 42 (7.65%) Splunk
5 35 (6.38%) ServiceNow
6 21 (3.83%) Okta
6 21 (3.83%) Trend Micro
7 19 (3.46%) Rapid7
8 18 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
8 18 (3.28%) SAP
9 17 (3.10%) Oracle
10 15 (2.73%) Google
11 13 (2.37%) VMware
12 12 (2.19%) Red Hat
12 12 (2.19%) Remedy
13 10 (1.82%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.64%) IBM
14 9 (1.64%) Tanium
15 8 (1.46%) Cisco
15 8 (1.46%) Clearswift