Vulnerability Assessment Jobs in the North West

Vulnerability Assessment
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 287 295
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -17
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 10 9 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.12% 0.090% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.11% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 5
10th Percentile £37,716 - £28,650
25th Percentile £39,293 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.79% -15.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £58,688 £59,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £59,600
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 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 7,723 8,221 7,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.81% 82.40% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,001 6,231 3,872
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,064
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,475
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the North West

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the North West

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the North West over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the North West

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 19 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
Manchester +54 7 £78,750 +110.00% 3
Lancashire - 2 £40,160 - 3
Merseyside +33 1 £55,000 +41.03% 1
Vulnerability Assessment
England

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (20.00%) SMTP
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Aviation
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Information Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Information Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Information Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Coaching
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Information Security
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
5 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CEH
1 2 (20.00%) CISM
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (60.00%) NIST
2 4 (40.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Rapid7