Vulnerability Remediation Jobs in England

Vulnerability Remediation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 654 658
Rank change year-on-year +50 +4 +301
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 75 196 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.26% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 48 169 165
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,625 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £92,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £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 £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in England

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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 +66 33 £85,000 +13.33% 53
North of England -4 17 £60,000 +20.00% 23
South East +57 15 - - 9
Yorkshire +50 9 £52,500 +20.00% 8
North West -33 8 £62,500 +8.70% 12
Midlands +55 7 £40,000 -13.51% 12
West Midlands +51 4 £40,000 -50.00% 7
South West +114 3 £47,500 - 10
East Midlands +38 3 £59,500 +48.75% 5
Vulnerability Remediation
UK

Vulnerability Remediation
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 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) Azure
2 21 (28.00%) AWS
3 19 (25.33%) PaaS
4 17 (22.67%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.33%) IaaS
6 4 (5.33%) Rubrik
6 4 (5.33%) SaaS
7 3 (4.00%) GCP
7 3 (4.00%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.67%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.00%) Firewall
2 13 (17.33%) Network Security
3 8 (10.67%) VPN
4 6 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (6.67%) DHCP
5 5 (6.67%) DNS
6 4 (5.33%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.33%) ADSL
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.33%) Fast Ethernet
7 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Git
2 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.67%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.67%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (46.67%) Finance
2 9 (12.00%) Banking
3 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Legal
5 3 (4.00%) Law
5 3 (4.00%) Marketing
5 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Electronics
6 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (49.33%) Security Engineer
2 24 (32.00%) Lead
3 12 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Security Specialist
6 5 (6.67%) Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Security Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Resilience Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Information Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Information Security Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Network Security Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Network Specialist
9 2 (2.67%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) YAML
2 9 (12.00%) Middleware
3 7 (9.33%) GraphQL
3 7 (9.33%) REST
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (30.67%) Security Posture
2 8 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.33%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.67%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) PMI
6 1 (1.33%) Tandem
6 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.67%) Windows
2 18 (24.00%) Linux
3 16 (21.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.33%) VMS
6 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 31 (41.33%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (40.00%) DevOps
4 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
4 22 (29.33%) DevSecOps
5 20 (26.67%) Computer Science
6 19 (25.33%) Agile
6 19 (25.33%) Application Security
6 19 (25.33%) OWASP
6 19 (25.33%) SDLC
6 19 (25.33%) Security Testing
6 19 (25.33%) Test Automation
7 18 (24.00%) Threat Modelling
8 17 (22.67%) Backlog Management
8 17 (22.67%) Product Management
8 17 (22.67%) Product Strategy
9 16 (21.33%) Cloud Security
9 16 (21.33%) Coaching
9 16 (21.33%) Mentoring
10 15 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 44 (58.67%) PowerShell
2 22 (29.33%) Python
3 11 (14.67%) Bash
4 2 (2.67%) Groovy
4 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.67%) Ruby
4 2 (2.67%) SQL
5 1 (1.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Degree
2 19 (25.33%) Master's Degree
3 17 (22.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (9.33%) CCNA
5 7 (9.33%) CCNP
6 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
7 5 (6.67%) CISSP
7 5 (6.67%) MCSA
7 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
7 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (2.67%) CCSP
8 2 (2.67%) CISM
8 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.33%) CRISC
9 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (38.67%) NIST
2 28 (37.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (22.67%) NCSC
4 9 (12.00%) SLA
5 8 (10.67%) GDPR
6 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.67%) GRC
7 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.33%) SOC 1
8 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 4 (5.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.67%) DFS Replication
6 2 (2.67%) Firmware
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.33%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (18.67%) Ansible
2 9 (12.00%) Terraform
3 5 (6.67%) SCCM
4 4 (5.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.33%) SCOM
4 4 (5.33%) VxRail
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.67%) CASB
6 2 (2.67%) Grafana
6 2 (2.67%) Istio
6 2 (2.67%) linkerd
6 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.67%) WSUS
7 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.33%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (42.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.00%) VMware
3 11 (14.67%) ServiceNow
4 10 (13.33%) Cisco
5 5 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (5.33%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.33%) Sophos
6 4 (5.33%) Splunk
6 4 (5.33%) Zscaler
7 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.67%) F5
8 2 (2.67%) Google
8 2 (2.67%) Juniper
8 2 (2.67%) Oracle
8 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.67%) SAP
8 2 (2.67%) Tenable
8 2 (2.67%) Varonis
9 1 (1.33%) Datto