Vulnerability Management Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Vulnerability Management Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Vulnerability Management Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £648, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Management Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.15% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £641 - -
25th Percentile £644 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 - -
75th Percentile £653 - -
90th Percentile £656 - -
North West median daily rate £648 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,233 963 1,498
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 93.77% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 622 1,075
10th Percentile £313 £313 £306
25th Percentile £388 £395 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £661
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 32 82
10th Percentile £18.45 £15.92 £12.02
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.75 £13.36
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +44.44% -46.02%
75th Percentile £61.25 £34.56 £60.94
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £42.31 £29.52 £26.53
% change year-on-year +43.36% +11.27% -8.53%

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 14 February 2026, Vulnerability Management Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Vulnerability Management Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) CASB
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) MCSA
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable
1 2 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) MCSA
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CASB
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable