Vulnerability Assessment Job Trends in the North West

Vulnerability Assessment
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 192 172
Rank change year-on-year +11 -20 +123
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 3 16 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.049% 0.31% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.34% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 17
10th Percentile £38,000 - £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,716 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,935 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -41.64% +23.81%
75th Percentile £46,250 £38,154 £80,000
90th Percentile £47,000 £71,512 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,139 4,691 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.37% 90.16% 89.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,475 2,330 2,672
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,176
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in the North West

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Manchester +22 1 £40,000 +5.44% 7
Cheshire -19 1 - - 7
Merseyside - 1 £45,000 - 3
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Fluentd
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cribl.io
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk