Vulnerability Assessment Job Trends in Birmingham

Vulnerability Assessment
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 126 97
Rank change year-on-year +22 -29 +45
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 4 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.23% 0.22% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.24% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 12
10th Percentile £50,725 £41,776 £45,250
25th Percentile £51,063 £47,867 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £54,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -27.00% +30.43%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,250 £77,188
90th Percentile - £61,600 £89,375
West Midlands median annual salary £54,250 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.36% -26.67% +73.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Vulnerability Assessment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,381 1,683 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.37% 93.29% 88.05%
Number of salaries quoted 979 784 1,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft