Vulnerability Management Engineer Contract Job Trends

Vulnerability Management Engineer
UK

The median Vulnerability Management Engineer daily rate in the UK is £570, 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 584 528 599
Rank change year-on-year -56 +71 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Vulnerability Management Engineer 8 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.003% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.004% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £450 - £405
25th Percentile £500 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +9.09% +29.19%
75th Percentile £642 £538 £711
90th Percentile £650 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £641 - £631

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 36,852 28,308 41,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.93% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,166 17,490 27,344
10th Percentile £304 £288 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.53% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 802 2,323
10th Percentile £14.59 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.57 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.92% -7.14% -

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management Engineer in the UK

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -70 8 £570 +8.48% 2
UK excluding London - 5 £641 - 2
North of England - 3 £643 -
North West - 3 £643 -
London -29 2 £500 -4.76%
Midlands - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £400 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Work from Home - 1 £400 -

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

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 featuring Vulnerability Management Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (50.00%) Nessus
3 4 (50.00%) Tenable
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (37.50%) CASB
4 3 (37.50%) CISSP
4 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
4 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) LDAP
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Log Correlation
4 3 (37.50%) MCSA
4 3 (37.50%) MCSE
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) Qualys
4 3 (37.50%) Remedy
4 3 (37.50%) Splunk
4 3 (37.50%) SSL
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (37.50%) Ticket Management

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Log Correlation
4 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Ticket Management
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Server Patching
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
6 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (37.50%) MCSA
1 3 (37.50%) MCSE
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Nessus
2 3 (37.50%) CASB
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Tenable
2 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
2 3 (37.50%) Qualys
2 3 (37.50%) Remedy
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Rapid7