Vulnerability Assessment Jobs in England

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 659 687
Rank change year-on-year +198 +28 +90
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 232 185 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 123 149 147
10th Percentile £41,750 £38,300 £37,223
25th Percentile £46,875 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £103,250 £96,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £56,250 £67,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.54% -8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in England

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in England.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in England

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in England

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
London +113 78 £70,000 -6.67% 45
South East +77 34 £67,500 -12.90% 153
North of England +60 25 £57,500 +35.29% 135
Midlands +91 24 £55,000 +25.71% 113
West Midlands +65 19 £55,000 +37.50% 58
East of England +51 13 £62,500 -13.79% 95
North West +10 10 £60,000 +56.86% 64
South West +101 8 £60,000 -4.00% 78
North East +50 8 £57,500 +35.29% 17
Yorkshire +64 7 £72,500 +20.83% 54
East Midlands +44 5 £37,500 -21.05% 47
Vulnerability Assessment
UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.59%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 108 (46.55%) AWS
2 82 (35.34%) AWS Lambda
2 82 (35.34%) Serverless
3 51 (21.98%) Azure
4 20 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.74%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (3.88%) GCP
7 5 (2.16%) SaaS
8 4 (1.72%) IaaS
8 4 (1.72%) PaaS
9 2 (0.86%) Asana
9 2 (0.86%) AWS KMS
9 2 (0.86%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.86%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.86%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 89 (38.36%) SSL
2 84 (36.21%) Firewall
3 83 (35.78%) SSH
4 82 (35.34%) Broadband
5 45 (19.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 39 (16.81%) Network Security
7 26 (11.21%) VPN
8 25 (10.78%) TCP/IP
9 15 (6.47%) BGP
9 15 (6.47%) DNS
9 15 (6.47%) OSPF
10 14 (6.03%) LAN
10 14 (6.03%) WAN
11 8 (3.45%) VLAN
12 7 (3.02%) MPLS
12 7 (3.02%) Spanning Tree
13 6 (2.59%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (2.59%) DWDM
13 6 (2.59%) SD-WAN
14 5 (2.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.43%) MySQL
1 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.72%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.29%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.86%) JIRA
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 133 (57.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (12.93%) Finance
4 10 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (3.88%) Banking
6 7 (3.02%) Mandarin Language
6 7 (3.02%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.16%) Law
8 5 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.29%) Legal
10 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (35.78%) Cloud Engineer
2 82 (35.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (20.26%) Analyst
4 41 (17.67%) Security Analyst
5 26 (11.21%) Lead
6 21 (9.05%) Network Engineer
7 17 (7.33%) Security Engineer
7 17 (7.33%) Senior
8 14 (6.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 9 (3.88%) IT Analyst
9 9 (3.88%) IT Security Analyst
10 8 (3.45%) Information Analyst
10 8 (3.45%) Information Security Analyst
11 7 (3.02%) Penetration Tester
11 7 (3.02%) Tester
12 6 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) IT Engineer
13 5 (2.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 5 (2.16%) Network Security Engineer
13 5 (2.16%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (35.34%) RESTful
1 82 (35.34%) Web Services
2 2 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.86%) PyTorch
2 2 (0.86%) scikit-learn
2 2 (0.86%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.43%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 121 (52.16%) Management Information System
2 95 (40.95%) Cyber Threat
3 89 (38.36%) PKI
4 85 (36.64%) Cyberattack
5 82 (35.34%) Onboarding
6 25 (10.78%) Security Posture
7 13 (5.60%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (4.31%) Private Cloud
9 7 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.59%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.16%) CESG
12 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.72%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
13 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.29%) SCADA
14 2 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 1 (0.43%) Fibre Optics
15 1 (0.43%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.40%) Windows
2 17 (7.33%) Linux
3 8 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (69.40%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (38.36%) DevOps
2 89 (38.36%) Roadmaps
3 86 (37.07%) Key Management
4 83 (35.78%) Deployment Automation
4 83 (35.78%) Use Case
5 82 (35.34%) Programme Delivery
6 74 (31.90%) Information Security
7 57 (24.57%) Incident Response
8 56 (24.14%) SIEM
9 54 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (18.10%) Security Operations
11 40 (17.24%) Penetration Testing
12 30 (12.93%) Computer Science
13 29 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
14 22 (9.48%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (9.05%) ITIL
16 20 (8.62%) CI/CD
16 20 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
17 19 (8.19%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 124 (53.45%) Python
2 18 (7.76%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.33%) Bash
4 12 (5.17%) C#
5 11 (4.74%) Java
6 6 (2.59%) Go
7 5 (2.16%) C++
7 5 (2.16%) SQL
8 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.29%) Rust
9 2 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.86%) Perl
9 2 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (19.40%) Degree
2 36 (15.52%) CISSP
3 24 (10.34%) CompTIA Security+
4 18 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.33%) CISM
6 16 (6.90%) Security Cleared
7 15 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (5.60%) CCNA
8 13 (5.60%) CCNP
9 12 (5.17%) SC Cleared
10 11 (4.74%) CEH
11 9 (3.88%) OSCP
12 8 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.59%) CESG Certified Professional
13 6 (2.59%) GIAC
13 6 (2.59%) JNCIA
13 6 (2.59%) JNCIS
14 5 (2.16%) CompTIA CySA+
14 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
14 5 (2.16%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (62.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 122 (52.59%) NIST
3 21 (9.05%) GDPR
4 12 (5.17%) COBIT
4 12 (5.17%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.59%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.59%) NCSC
6 5 (2.16%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.72%) SLA
7 4 (1.72%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.29%) GRC
8 3 (1.29%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 92 (39.66%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.02%) Hyper-V
2 7 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 90 (38.79%) Terraform
2 14 (6.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.31%) Ansible
4 5 (2.16%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.29%) Puppet
6 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.86%) Nessus
6 2 (0.86%) Nmap
6 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.86%) SCCM
6 2 (0.86%) SCOM
7 1 (0.43%) Grafana
7 1 (0.43%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (35.34%) Thales
2 53 (22.84%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.48%) Cisco
4 17 (7.33%) VMware
5 11 (4.74%) Tenable
6 7 (3.02%) Juniper
7 6 (2.59%) Arista
8 4 (1.72%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.29%) Alibaba
9 3 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.29%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.86%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.86%) Aruba
10 2 (0.86%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.86%) F5
10 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.86%) Splunk
11 1 (0.43%) Qualys
11 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds