Vulnerability Scanning Job Trends in Somerset

Vulnerability Scanning
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset 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 42 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 33 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 3.61% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% - 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61,375
25th Percentile £41,250 - £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £63,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile £45,625 - £66,563
90th Percentile £46,750 - £67,125
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +5.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 681 240 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 74.51% 92.66% 62.73%
Number of salaries quoted 380 152 448
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,204 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,360 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +6.02% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,357 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £66,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
% change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -4.63%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Scanning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in Somerset

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Vulnerability Scanning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the Somerset 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
Bath - 30 - -
Clevedon - 10 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 10 - -
Taunton - 3 £42,500 - 1
Vulnerability Scanning
South West

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (90.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 32 (96.97%) Azure
2 30 (90.91%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (90.91%) DHCP
1 30 (90.91%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (90.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
1 2 (6.06%) JMeter
1 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
1 2 (6.06%) Selenium
General
1 33 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (93.94%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (90.91%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (6.06%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) Analyst
3 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (3.03%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (90.91%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (90.91%) Linux
1 30 (90.91%) Windows
1 30 (90.91%) Windows Server
1 30 (90.91%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (93.94%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (90.91%) Customer Experience
2 30 (90.91%) Customer Service
2 30 (90.91%) Email Filtering
2 30 (90.91%) Kalman Filter
2 30 (90.91%) Migration
2 30 (90.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 30 (90.91%) Web Filtering
3 2 (6.06%) Agile
3 2 (6.06%) DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (6.06%) Exploratory Testing
3 2 (6.06%) Performance Testing
3 2 (6.06%) Regression Testing
3 2 (6.06%) SDLC
3 2 (6.06%) Software Testing
3 2 (6.06%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (6.06%) Test Automation
3 2 (6.06%) Test Strategy
3 2 (6.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 32 (96.97%) SC Cleared
1 32 (96.97%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (93.94%) Cyber Essentials
1 31 (93.94%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) WCAG
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (90.91%) Active Directory
1 30 (90.91%) Hyper-V
1 30 (90.91%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 30 (90.91%) Brocade
1 30 (90.91%) Microsoft
1 30 (90.91%) Nimble Storage
1 30 (90.91%) SolarWinds
1 30 (90.91%) Splunk
1 30 (90.91%) Tanium
1 30 (90.91%) Veeam
1 30 (90.91%) VMware