Vulnerability Management Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Vulnerability Management Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £641, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - +70
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Management Engineer 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% - 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £472 - £528
25th Percentile £579 - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 - £631
75th Percentile £647 - £711
90th Percentile £653 - £749
UK median daily rate £570 £525 £481
% change year-on-year +8.48% +9.09% +29.19%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,226 12,321 19,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.48% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,976 7,412 12,217
10th Percentile £222 £210 £213
25th Percentile £379 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,943 619 1,927
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.44 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.29 £20.97 £16.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £61.84 £65.00 £61.99
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -6.67%

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Vulnerability Management Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management Engineer in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 February 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
North West - 3 £643 -
North of England - 3 £643 -
Midlands - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Vulnerability Management Engineer
UK

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 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 UK excluding London region featuring Vulnerability Management Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (80.00%) Nessus
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) CASB
3 3 (60.00%) CISSP
3 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (60.00%) CyberArk
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) LDAP
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Log Correlation
3 3 (60.00%) MCSA
3 3 (60.00%) MCSE
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Remedy
3 3 (60.00%) Splunk
3 3 (60.00%) SSL
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (60.00%) Tenable
3 3 (60.00%) Ticket Management
3 3 (60.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) SSL
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Log Correlation
3 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Ticket Management
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (60.00%) MCSA
1 3 (60.00%) MCSE
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Nessus
2 3 (60.00%) CASB
3 1 (20.00%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
1 3 (60.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Rapid7