Vulnerability Remediation Job Trends in Edinburgh

Vulnerability Remediation
Scotland > Edinburgh

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.29% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £48,507
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £49,784
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 - £48,507
% change year-on-year - - -25.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Vulnerability Remediation 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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 715 832 1,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.97% 95.41% 84.58%
Number of salaries quoted 480 375 924
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,522 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,951 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £70,313 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,095 £91,121
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) BCP
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Economics
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Pega