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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 226 322
Rank change year-on-year -17 +96 -53
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 8 5 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.064% 0.100% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile - - £51,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -38.46% +52.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £42,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £47,600 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +13.64%

All Process & 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 8,648 4,454 11,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.50% 88.85% 78.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,051 2,533 7,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the Midlands

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 17 June 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
West Midlands -12 7 £52,500 +31.25% 3
East Midlands -31 1 - - 4
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 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Sales Executive
1 3 (37.50%) Security Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Security Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) B2B
2 3 (37.50%) Business Development
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Argo
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Intel