Vulnerability Assessment Jobs in England

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 636 730 779
Rank change year-on-year +94 +49 -126
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 201 222 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 165 144 262
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,850 £39,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £46,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £57,251 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -4.58% -14.29%
75th Percentile £81,250 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £94,625 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,750 £61,500
% change year-on-year +7.00% -1.22% -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Assessment is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,981 89,600 124,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.92% 95.65% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53,915 52,820 73,594
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,306
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in England

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in England

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in England

Vulnerability Assessment
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 Assessment within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +117 84 £75,000 +4.17% 23
South East +1 51 £75,000 +50.00% 6
North of England +58 25 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Midlands -5 17 £40,000 -15.79% 3
South West -14 15 £62,500 +68.59% 5
North West +19 13 £37,500 -10.18% 1
West Midlands +18 10 £40,000 -45.21% 3
Yorkshire +92 7 £60,000 -15.79%
East of England +26 7 £72,500 +31.82% 5
East Midlands -26 7 £47,500 -
North East - 5 £42,500 -
Vulnerability Assessment
UK

Vulnerability Assessment
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 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) IIS
3 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 71 (35.32%) Azure
2 52 (25.87%) AWS
3 35 (17.41%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (6.97%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (6.97%) Datadog
4 14 (6.97%) Entra ID
5 13 (6.47%) GCP
6 9 (4.48%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (3.48%) PaaS
8 6 (2.99%) SaaS
9 5 (2.49%) IaaS
9 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.00%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.00%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 80 (39.80%) Firewall
2 23 (11.44%) Network Security
3 22 (10.95%) Intrusion Detection
4 16 (7.96%) TCP/IP
5 15 (7.46%) DNS
6 12 (5.97%) Wireless
7 6 (2.99%) DHCP
7 6 (2.99%) VPN
8 5 (2.49%) IPsec
8 5 (2.49%) LAN
8 5 (2.49%) SSL
9 4 (1.99%) Internet
9 4 (1.99%) SAN
9 4 (1.99%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.99%) Wireless Security
10 3 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.49%) VLAN
10 3 (1.49%) WAN
10 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.48%) Power BI
2 2 (1.00%) Big Data
2 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (11.94%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.97%) GitLab
3 5 (2.49%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.99%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.50%) MSI
5 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.50%) Snyk
5 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.39%) Finance
3 29 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.96%) Legal
5 12 (5.97%) Law
5 12 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.98%) Marketing
7 8 (3.98%) Banking
7 8 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.49%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.99%) Retail
12 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.50%) Games
14 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (29.35%) Analyst
2 45 (22.39%) Security Analyst
3 32 (15.92%) Senior
4 25 (12.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 25 (12.44%) Lead
4 25 (12.44%) Security Engineer
5 19 (9.45%) Security Manager
6 15 (7.46%) Architect
6 15 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Lead DevOps
7 14 (6.97%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Penetration Tester
7 14 (6.97%) Tester
8 12 (5.97%) Information Manager
8 12 (5.97%) Information Security Manager
9 11 (5.47%) SOC Analyst
10 9 (4.48%) Information Analyst
10 9 (4.48%) Information Security Analyst
10 9 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.97%) .NET
2 2 (1.00%) EDI
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.00%) REST
2 2 (1.00%) Sass
3 1 (0.50%) OAuth
3 1 (0.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.92%) Management Information System
2 32 (15.92%) Cyber Threat
3 23 (11.44%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.47%) PKI
4 11 (5.47%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (4.98%) Cyber Defence
5 10 (4.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 9 (4.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 9 (4.48%) IoT
6 9 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.48%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.99%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.99%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.49%) Cyberattack
9 5 (2.49%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.87%) Windows
2 28 (13.93%) Linux
3 17 (8.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.48%) Unix
5 6 (2.99%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.99%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (71.64%) Cybersecurity
2 88 (43.78%) Information Security
3 68 (33.83%) Incident Response
4 64 (31.84%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (29.35%) Penetration Testing
6 57 (28.36%) SIEM
7 38 (18.91%) Vulnerability Management
8 36 (17.91%) Cloud Security
9 34 (16.92%) Security Architecture
10 26 (12.94%) ITIL
10 26 (12.94%) Security Operations
10 26 (12.94%) Threat Intelligence
11 25 (12.44%) Business Continuity
12 24 (11.94%) CI/CD
12 24 (11.94%) DevOps
12 24 (11.94%) OWASP
13 22 (10.95%) Computer Science
13 22 (10.95%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 19 (9.45%) Risk Management
14 19 (9.45%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 30 (14.93%) Python
2 11 (5.47%) C#
3 7 (3.48%) C
3 7 (3.48%) C++
3 7 (3.48%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.99%) Bash
4 6 (2.99%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.50%) Java
5 1 (0.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (27.36%) Degree
2 53 (26.37%) CISSP
3 29 (14.43%) CISM
4 23 (11.44%) CISA
5 21 (10.45%) CompTIA Security+
5 21 (10.45%) Security Cleared
6 20 (9.95%) AWS Certification
7 18 (8.96%) CEH
8 16 (7.96%) OSCP
9 15 (7.46%) CompTIA CySA+
9 15 (7.46%) GIAC
9 15 (7.46%) Master's Degree
10 14 (6.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.97%) CREST Certified
11 13 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (5.97%) CRISC
12 12 (5.97%) SC Cleared
13 11 (5.47%) CHECK Team Member
14 9 (4.48%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (42.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (30.85%) NIST
3 39 (19.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 25 (12.44%) GRC
5 21 (10.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 19 (9.45%) NCSC
7 15 (7.46%) GDPR
8 14 (6.97%) NIST 800
9 11 (5.47%) PCI DSS
10 9 (4.48%) COBIT
11 7 (3.48%) ISO 13485
11 7 (3.48%) QA
12 6 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (1.99%) HIPAA
14 3 (1.49%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.50%) FISMA
15 1 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (11.44%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.46%) Docker
3 12 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.49%) KVM
6 2 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.96%) Terraform
3 14 (6.97%) Consul
3 14 (6.97%) Puppet
4 10 (4.98%) Ansible
5 6 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.49%) CSIRT
7 4 (1.99%) Nessus
7 4 (1.99%) Nmap
8 3 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.49%) CASB
8 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.00%) WSUS
10 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.50%) SCCM
10 1 (0.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 62 (30.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.47%) VMware
3 10 (4.98%) Google
4 9 (4.48%) Alibaba
4 9 (4.48%) Cisco
5 4 (1.99%) Intel
5 4 (1.99%) Qualys
5 4 (1.99%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.49%) Meraki
6 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.49%) Splunk
7 2 (1.00%) arcserve
7 2 (1.00%) CA
7 2 (1.00%) Veeam
8 1 (0.50%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.50%) Dell
8 1 (0.50%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) SonicWALL