Vulnerability Research Jobs in England

Vulnerability Research
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Research skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Research over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 822 889
Rank change year-on-year +147 +67 +201
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Research 14 19 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.028% 0.022% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.026% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 16
10th Percentile £89,500 £31,875 -
25th Percentile £96,250 £44,063 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £60,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -14.89% +20.51%
75th Percentile - £75,313 £91,250
90th Percentile - £86,250 -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £60,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.89% +2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Research 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 46,835 73,609 84,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.17% 85.09% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23,750 53,947 50,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,125
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 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Vulnerability Research
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Research in England

Vulnerability Research
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Research in England

Vulnerability Research
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 Research within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands +61 10 - - 3
Midlands +60 10 - - 3
South West +101 3 £100,000 +48.15% 1
London +117 1 £90,000 +35.85% 5
Vulnerability Research
UK

Vulnerability Research
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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) 3GPP
1 9 (64.29%) 5G
2 1 (7.14%) tcpdump
2 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GDB
1 1 (7.14%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (7.14%) WinDbg
General
1 10 (71.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Tester
2 6 (42.86%) Security Tester
3 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Researcher
4 3 (21.43%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) libvirt
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Clustering
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (7.14%) Cryptography
2 1 (7.14%) LLM
2 1 (7.14%) Manual Testing
2 1 (7.14%) Offensive Security
2 1 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.14%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) CodeQL
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PHP
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Xen