Vulnerability Remediation Job Trends in the North of England

Vulnerability Remediation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 240 253
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +142
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 16 45 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.54% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10 33 25
10th Percentile £40,375 - £35,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.26% -27.69%
75th Percentile £54,688 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,625 £60,000 £63,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Vulnerability Remediation 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 8,559 8,368 7,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.49% 90.10% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,765 5,537
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -1.87%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the North of England

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Yorkshire -22 9 £50,500 +12.22% 4
North West +18 6 £43,750 -8.25% 2
North East +7 1 - -
Vulnerability Remediation
England

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Relationships Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Relationships Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Supplier Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Supplier Relationship Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Information Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) VMS
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) CentOS
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (56.25%) Incident Response
2 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL
4 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
5 4 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 4 (25.00%) Information Security
5 4 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 4 (25.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
5 4 (25.00%) Vendor Relationship Management
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) Server Management
6 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (12.50%) Project Management
7 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) SLA
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (6.25%) GRC
4 1 (6.25%) NIST
4 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Nagios
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Dell Compellent
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat