Vulnerability Scanning Jobs in England

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 625 623
Rank change year-on-year +33 -2 +292
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 91 221 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.30% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 66 185 186
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £55,527
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +8.06% -14.57%
75th Percentile £99,063 £80,000 £78,938
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Scanning 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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
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 £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 +60 46 £95,000 +27.95% 45
South East +84 18 £60,000 -20.00% 13
North of England +12 18 £60,000 +23.08% 14
Yorkshire +58 17 £70,000 +40.00% 11
South West +97 4 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands +48 4 £40,000 -38.46% 6
West Midlands +64 2 £40,000 -38.46% 5
East Midlands +27 2 £44,500 -31.54% 1
North West -14 1 £41,831 -7.04% 3
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
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 (2.20%) TPMS
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.15%) Azure
2 23 (25.27%) AWS
2 23 (25.27%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (21.98%) GCP
4 9 (9.89%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.49%) SaaS
6 4 (4.40%) IaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Cloudflare
7 3 (3.30%) Datadog
8 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.20%) GitHub
8 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.20%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.20%) PaaS
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.10%) Serverless
9 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (43.96%) Firewall
2 32 (35.16%) Network Security
3 8 (8.79%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.59%) DNS
4 6 (6.59%) VPN
5 2 (2.20%) HTTP
5 2 (2.20%) VLAN
6 1 (1.10%) 4G
6 1 (1.10%) 5G
6 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.10%) DHCP
6 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.10%) IPsec
6 1 (1.10%) SSL
6 1 (1.10%) VoIP
6 1 (1.10%) Wireless
6 1 (1.10%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) Git
2 3 (3.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.10%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) Metasploit
General
1 19 (20.88%) Legal
2 16 (17.58%) Retail
3 15 (16.48%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.19%) Finance
5 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.79%) Law
7 6 (6.59%) Aviation
8 4 (4.40%) Banking
9 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.10%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Security Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) Analyst
3 13 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 11 (12.09%) Lead
5 9 (9.89%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 9 (9.89%) Security Specialist
6 7 (7.69%) Consultant
6 7 (7.69%) Information Security Consultant
6 7 (7.69%) Security Consultant
6 7 (7.69%) Security Manager
7 6 (6.59%) Head of Information
7 6 (6.59%) Head of Information Security
7 6 (6.59%) Head of Security
8 5 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior
9 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) IT Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (2.20%) GraphQL
1 2 (2.20%) Middleware
1 2 (2.20%) REST
2 1 (1.10%) EDI
2 1 (1.10%) Kafka
2 1 (1.10%) pytest
2 1 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 23 (25.27%) Security Posture
3 9 (9.89%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (7.69%) Cyberattack
5 6 (6.59%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (6.59%) Robotics
6 4 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.30%) PKI
8 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.10%) IoT
9 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.37%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Android
2 6 (6.59%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.59%) Linux
3 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.20%) VMS
5 1 (1.10%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (73.63%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 42 (46.15%) Information Security
3 42 (46.15%) Vulnerability Management
4 40 (43.96%) SIEM
5 32 (35.16%) Incident Management
6 27 (29.67%) Penetration Testing
7 24 (26.37%) Security Operations
8 22 (24.18%) Security Testing
9 21 (23.08%) Data Protection
10 20 (21.98%) Data Loss Prevention
11 19 (20.88%) Risk Management
11 19 (20.88%) Security Management
12 18 (19.78%) Data Security
12 18 (19.78%) Identity Access Management
12 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (17.58%) Cloud Security
14 15 (16.48%) Data Privacy
15 14 (15.38%) Internal Audit
15 14 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.47%) Python
2 19 (20.88%) PowerShell
3 8 (8.79%) Perl
4 6 (6.59%) Bash
5 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.20%) Go
6 2 (2.20%) Java
6 2 (2.20%) Ruby
6 2 (2.20%) SQL
7 1 (1.10%) C#
7 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) CISSP
2 14 (15.38%) Degree
3 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
4 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.69%) CISM
6 6 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (4.40%) OSCP
9 3 (3.30%) CCNA
9 3 (3.30%) CCNP
9 3 (3.30%) CEH
10 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.20%) CCSP
10 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.10%) CISA
11 1 (1.10%) GIAC
11 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (47.25%) NIST
2 41 (45.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (31.87%) GDPR
4 25 (27.47%) PCI DSS
5 13 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (8.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
9 3 (3.30%) SOC 2
10 2 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.20%) SLA
11 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.40%) Firmware
3 3 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.20%) Docker
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.69%) Terraform
2 6 (6.59%) ArcSight ESM
2 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) QRadar
3 5 (5.49%) Ansible
4 2 (2.20%) CASB
4 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.20%) Istio
4 2 (2.20%) linkerd
5 1 (1.10%) Mesos
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.10%) Nessus
5 1 (1.10%) OpenVAS
5 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (37.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Cisco
2 7 (7.69%) Splunk
3 6 (6.59%) ArcSight
3 6 (6.59%) LogLogic
3 6 (6.59%) McAfee
4 5 (5.49%) Qualys
4 5 (5.49%) Tenable
5 4 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.40%) Okta
5 4 (4.40%) VMware
6 3 (3.30%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.30%) Google
6 3 (3.30%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.20%) F5
7 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.20%) Varonis
8 1 (1.10%) Meraki
8 1 (1.10%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.10%) Sophos