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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 230 178
Rank change year-on-year +7 -52 +154
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 2 10 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.026% 0.15% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.16% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 30
10th Percentile £50,125 £19,950 £46,100
25th Percentile £50,313 £33,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £52,813 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £53,375 - £63,750
England median annual salary £63,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.93% +7.69% -3.70%

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 6,365 6,093 4,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.12% 89.41% 92.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 2,705 3,426
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,479 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 21 December 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 +30 2 £51,250 +2.50% 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler