Vulnerability Scanning Job Trends in England

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 529 473
Rank change year-on-year +86 -56 +232
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 157 143 227
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.30% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.33% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 62 97 194
10th Percentile £50,813 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,425 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +8.25% +3.77%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £82,500
90th Percentile - £120,000 £98,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,425 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.95% +14.50% -

All Process & 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 42,481 43,790 44,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.29% 90.69% 89.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,455 21,528 34,408
10th Percentile £28,560 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vulnerability Scanning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 2026. 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
South West +78 86 £37,000 -29.52% 2
London +23 50 £78,500 -12.78% 13
North of England +5 14 £58,250 +1.30% 11
North West +20 6 £51,750 -10.00% 5
South East +17 5 £62,500 -26.47% 11
Yorkshire -26 5 £59,500 +5.78% 3
North East +7 3 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands +31 1 £50,000 +25.00% 6
Midlands +11 1 £50,000 - 7
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 88 (56.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 125 (79.62%) Azure
2 92 (58.60%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (14.65%) AWS
4 13 (8.28%) Slack
5 12 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.73%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (5.73%) GitHub
7 8 (5.10%) GCP
7 8 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.18%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.55%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.55%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.91%) IBM Cloud
13 2 (1.27%) Datadog
13 2 (1.27%) Nutanix
13 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.64%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 88 (56.05%) DNS
2 84 (53.50%) DHCP
3 18 (11.46%) Firewall
4 8 (5.10%) VPN
5 6 (3.82%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.18%) HTTP
6 5 (3.18%) Network Security
7 3 (1.91%) VLAN
8 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.27%) WAN
9 1 (0.64%) Broadband
9 1 (0.64%) DMZ
9 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.64%) NAS
9 1 (0.64%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.64%) SAN
9 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (53.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (10.83%) JIRA
2 10 (6.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.73%) GitLab
4 3 (1.91%) Git
5 2 (1.27%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.27%) Selenium
5 2 (1.27%) TestRail
6 1 (0.64%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 109 (69.43%) Social Skills
2 92 (58.60%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.28%) Influencing Skills
3 13 (8.28%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (7.64%) Finance
5 9 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.10%) Banking
7 6 (3.82%) Law
8 4 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (54.14%) Systems Engineer
2 19 (12.10%) Security Engineer
3 13 (8.28%) Analyst
4 12 (7.64%) Security Analyst
5 11 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.10%) Senior
7 7 (4.46%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) Lead
9 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (2.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 4 (2.55%) Security Manager
10 3 (1.91%) Information Analyst
10 3 (1.91%) Information Security Analyst
10 3 (1.91%) Infrastructure Manager
10 3 (1.91%) Network Infrastructure Manager
10 3 (1.91%) Network Manager
10 3 (1.91%) Network Security Manager
10 3 (1.91%) Senior Security Engineer
10 3 (1.91%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.27%) JWT
2 2 (1.27%) OAuth
3 1 (0.64%) .NET
3 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.64%) Node.js
3 1 (0.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (53.50%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (12.74%) Management Information System
3 15 (9.55%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.55%) PKI
6 3 (1.91%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.27%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) SCADA
8 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 94 (59.87%) Windows
2 93 (59.24%) Windows Server
3 91 (57.96%) Linux
4 84 (53.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.64%) Android
5 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (66.24%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 94 (59.87%) Kalman Filter
3 92 (58.60%) Email Filtering
4 89 (56.69%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (54.14%) Customer Experience
5 85 (54.14%) Migration
5 85 (54.14%) Web Filtering
6 84 (53.50%) Customer Service
7 35 (22.29%) DevOps
8 34 (21.66%) CI/CD
8 34 (21.66%) Incident Response
9 31 (19.75%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (19.75%) Penetration Testing
10 29 (18.47%) Vulnerability Management
11 23 (14.65%) SIEM
12 18 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (8.28%) Cloud Security
14 13 (8.28%) Technology Transformation
14 13 (8.28%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.93%) Python
2 26 (16.56%) Bash
3 23 (14.65%) PowerShell
4 18 (11.46%) Go
5 4 (2.55%) Bicep
6 2 (1.27%) Java
6 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.64%) C#
7 1 (0.64%) Scala
7 1 (0.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (57.32%) Security Cleared
2 88 (56.05%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.38%) Degree
4 14 (8.92%) CISSP
5 9 (5.73%) CISM
6 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.18%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.18%) CISA
8 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.91%) MCP
8 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.91%) OSCP
8 3 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.27%) CEH
9 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.64%) GIAC
10 1 (0.64%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (63.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 88 (56.05%) PCI DSS
3 39 (24.84%) NIST
4 38 (24.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (8.28%) Accessibility
6 7 (4.46%) GDPR
7 6 (3.82%) SOC 2
8 4 (2.55%) GRC
9 3 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.27%) ISO 22301
10 2 (1.27%) QA
11 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.64%) NCSC
11 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
System Software
1 90 (57.32%) Active Directory
2 87 (55.41%) Hyper-V
3 84 (53.50%) Terminal Server
4 17 (10.83%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.18%) Docker
7 3 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (10.83%) Terraform
2 9 (5.73%) Grafana
3 8 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.10%) Nessus
3 8 (5.10%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.46%) Ansible
5 4 (2.55%) logstash
6 3 (1.91%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.64%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.64%) Nmap
8 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 103 (65.61%) Microsoft
2 92 (58.60%) VMware
3 87 (55.41%) Splunk
4 86 (54.78%) SolarWinds
5 85 (54.14%) Tanium
5 85 (54.14%) Veeam
6 84 (53.50%) Brocade
6 84 (53.50%) Nimble Storage
7 20 (12.74%) Tenable
8 13 (8.28%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.10%) Qualys
10 4 (2.55%) Carbon Black
10 4 (2.55%) Darktrace
11 3 (1.91%) IBM
12 2 (1.27%) Aruba
12 2 (1.27%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.27%) Commvault
12 2 (1.27%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (1.27%) Rapid7
13 1 (0.64%) Cribl.io