Vulnerability Specialist Jobs in England

Vulnerability Specialist
UK > England

The median Vulnerability Specialist salary in England is £78,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 941 1126
Rank change year-on-year +122 +185 -280
Permanent jobs requiring a Vulnerability Specialist 14 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.003% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.004% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 11
10th Percentile £62,250 - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +150.00% -58.62%
75th Percentile £80,313 - £32,500
90th Percentile £82,000 - £80,000
UK median annual salary £78,750 £75,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +150.00% -57.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,360 84,735 126,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,202 53,671 75,665
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,160 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Vulnerability Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Vulnerability Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Specialist in England

Vulnerability Specialist
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Specialist in England

Vulnerability Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Specialist in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Specialist in England

Vulnerability Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 +139 13 £80,000 +6.67% 1
Vulnerability Specialist
UK

Vulnerability Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Vulnerability Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Vulnerability Specialist in the job title.

1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 11 (78.57%) Unix
2 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (78.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 11 (78.57%) Threat Management
3 9 (64.29%) Qualys
4 8 (57.14%) SCCM
5 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
6 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
6 6 (42.86%) Nessus
7 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
7 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 4 (28.57%) Nexpose
7 4 (28.57%) Snyk
7 4 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (21.43%) Banking
9 2 (14.29%) ITSM
9 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
9 2 (14.29%) SLA
9 2 (14.29%) OWASP
9 2 (14.29%) AWS
9 2 (14.29%) Application Security
9 2 (14.29%) ITIL
9 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
9 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Snyk
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
1 11 (78.57%) Unix
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Threat Management
1 11 (78.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 4 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (14.29%) Application Security
3 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
3 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) ITSM
3 2 (14.29%) OWASP
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Proactive Management
4 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
4 1 (7.14%) Security Operations
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) SCCM
2 6 (42.86%) Nessus
3 4 (28.57%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 9 (64.29%) Qualys
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype