Vulnerability Scanning Job Trends in Central London

Vulnerability Scanning
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Vulnerability Scanning 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 142 172 169
Rank change year-on-year +30 -3 +82
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 3 12 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.12% 0.37% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.39% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £61,125 £79,750 -
25th Percentile £68,438 £85,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £92,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +72.90% -17.69%
75th Percentile £100,938 £97,188 £55,250
90th Percentile £109,375 £104,500 -
London median annual salary £78,500 £91,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.97% +21.67% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Vulnerability Scanning 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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,233 3,083 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.26% 95.89% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,839 2,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Scanning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in Central London

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Vulnerability Scanning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in Central London

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +22 3 £83,750 -9.46% 3
Vulnerability Scanning
London

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Apigee
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Identity
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Aruba
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
1 1 (33.33%) ForgeRock
1 1 (33.33%) Rapid7
1 1 (33.33%) Stonesoft
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable