Vulnerability Assessment Jobs in the North of England

Vulnerability Assessment
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 370 420
Rank change year-on-year +60 +50 -27
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 26 18 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.10% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.12% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 9
10th Percentile £39,293 £36,250 £34,050
25th Percentile £41,810 £37,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -22.73% +7.32%
75th Percentile £62,813 £60,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £91,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Vulnerability Assessment 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,928 14,694 16,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.08% 82.96% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,472 11,264 7,883
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,342 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the North of England

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the North of England

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the North of England

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
North West +1 10 £60,000 +56.86% 72
Yorkshire +72 9 £37,935 -36.78% 64
North East +46 7 £57,500 +35.29% 21
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (23.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
3 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) IaaS
4 1 (3.85%) PaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) Firewall
2 11 (42.31%) Network Security
2 11 (42.31%) VPN
3 8 (30.77%) DNS
3 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 7 (26.92%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (23.08%) DWDM
5 6 (23.08%) LAN
5 6 (23.08%) WAN
6 2 (7.69%) HTTP
6 2 (7.69%) SMTP
7 1 (3.85%) Broadband
7 1 (3.85%) SSH
7 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
2 5 (19.23%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Legal
3 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Aviation
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Network Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Security Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Security Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) IT Technical Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) PyTorch
1 2 (7.69%) scikit-learn
1 2 (7.69%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 3 (11.54%) Cyberattack
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Mentoring
2 9 (34.62%) SIEM
2 9 (34.62%) Task Automation
3 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
4 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 6 (23.08%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) Network Architecture
4 6 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (23.08%) Runbook
4 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (19.23%) BCP
5 5 (19.23%) Business Continuity
5 5 (19.23%) Business Continuity Planning
5 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (19.23%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Degree
2 7 (26.92%) CCNA
2 7 (26.92%) CCNP
2 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (23.08%) JNCIA
3 6 (23.08%) JNCIS
4 3 (11.54%) CISSP
5 2 (7.69%) CEH
5 2 (7.69%) CISM
6 1 (3.85%) CCDA
6 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.85%) MCSD
6 1 (3.85%) MCSE
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (46.15%) NIST
3 9 (34.62%) GDPR
4 1 (3.85%) GRC
4 1 (3.85%) ISO 9001
4 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) Cisco
3 6 (23.08%) Arista
4 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.85%) Thales