Vulnerability Scanning Job Trends in the Midlands

Vulnerability Scanning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 258 195
Rank change year-on-year +45 -63 +130
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 3 10 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.054% 0.11% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.14% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 29
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,750 £44,050
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £51,875 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £53,000 - £63,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -3.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,777 7,199 4,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.24% 81.08% 93.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,984 3,252 3,601
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,125 £38,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +4.80% -0.10%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £64,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £79,960 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Vulnerability Scanning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 November 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 +50 2 £51,250 +2.50% 3
East Midlands +9 1 £40,000 -30.43% 5
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Tanium
2 1 (33.33%) Tenable
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler