Vulnerability Management Job Trends in the East of England

Vulnerability Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 137 187
Rank change year-on-year -31 +50 +37
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 16 14 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.26% 0.54% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.59% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 10
10th Percentile £39,025 £22,500 £38,625
25th Percentile £41,313 £41,280 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £43,542 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -37.80% +27.27%
75th Percentile £67,625 £47,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,000 £66,375 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% +3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Vulnerability Management 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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,353 2,393 4,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.65% 92.50% 81.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 1,396 3,681
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,350 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Vulnerability Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management in the East of England

Vulnerability Management
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Hertfordshire -22 7 £61,500 +46.13% 4
Suffolk +5 4 - -
Cambridgeshire -22 4 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 £82,500 - 6
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
2 3 (18.75%) Back Office
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Email Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Security Incident Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) SIEM Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Compliance Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Operations Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Security Compliance Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (43.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 7 (43.75%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (43.75%) Operational Technology
3 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) ITIL
2 8 (50.00%) Coaching
2 8 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 8 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 8 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 8 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (43.75%) Business Strategy
3 7 (43.75%) Change Advisory Board
3 7 (43.75%) Cyber Intelligence
3 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
3 7 (43.75%) Risk Management
3 7 (43.75%) Roadmaps
3 7 (43.75%) SABSA
3 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (43.75%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
5 3 (18.75%) People Management
5 3 (18.75%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CompTIA CySA+
1 3 (18.75%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) CISM
2 2 (12.50%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) GSEC
3 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (6.25%) CCSP
3 1 (6.25%) CISA
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CRISC
3 1 (6.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (56.25%) NIST
2 7 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.25%) GRC
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 31000
3 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
3 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Check_MK
2 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.25%) Okta