Vulnerability Assessment Job Trends in Bristol

Vulnerability Assessment
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 98 124
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 +30
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 8 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.39% 0.58% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.65% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £38,750 £44,750 -
25th Percentile £45,313 £59,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +16.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £71,875 £91,875 -
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,250 -
South West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,307 1,234 1,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 64.01% 88.84% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 990 668 1,356
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,034 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,025 £85,000 £88,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +3.35%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in Bristol

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in Bristol

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (25.00%) Metasploit
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) YubiKey
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Malware Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Red Team
4 2 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (12.50%) Forensic Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CCSP
3 1 (12.50%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (62.50%) NIST
4 1 (12.50%) GDPR
4 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
4 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) Nmap
1 2 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) Tenable
2 2 (25.00%) Qualys
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) VMware