Vulnerability Management Job Trends in the South East

Vulnerability Management
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 229 173
Rank change year-on-year +6 -56 +138
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 48 66 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.46% 0.72% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.82% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28 47 85
10th Percentile £47,050 £42,000 £43,550
25th Percentile £50,750 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +36.00% +5.49%
75th Percentile £78,500 £92,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,250 £70,600
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Vulnerability Management 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,326 8,020 7,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.48% 87.89% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,927 3,878 5,081
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Vulnerability Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in the South East over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management in the South East

Vulnerability Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Hampshire +46 21 £54,000 -24.48%
Thames Valley -8 17 £70,000 -20.45% 10
Buckinghamshire -11 7 £70,000 -20.45% 2
Berkshire -7 6 £85,000 +41.67% 6
Middlesex - 5 - -
Oxfordshire - 4 £86,500 - 2
Surrey -5 3 £37,750 -31.36% 1
West Sussex -3 1 £50,000 +17.65%
Kent - 1 - - 1
Vulnerability Management
England

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 21 (43.75%) Azure
2 11 (22.92%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (18.75%) AWS
4 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) PaaS
6 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.25%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) Firewall
2 7 (14.58%) Network Security
3 6 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (4.17%) BGP
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (4.17%) LAN
4 2 (4.17%) OSPF
4 2 (4.17%) WAN
4 2 (4.17%) WLAN
5 1 (2.08%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.08%) IKE
5 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.08%) IPsec
5 1 (2.08%) RIP
5 1 (2.08%) SSL
General
1 9 (18.75%) Finance
1 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.17%) Games
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 14 (29.17%) Senior
3 13 (27.08%) Analyst
3 13 (27.08%) Lead
4 10 (20.83%) Security Analyst
5 8 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (16.67%) Senior Security Analyst
6 6 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Risk Analyst
9 3 (6.25%) Security Risk Analyst
9 3 (6.25%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 3 (6.25%) Senior Risk Analyst
9 3 (6.25%) Service Analyst
9 3 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) YAML
2 4 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 15 (31.25%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (20.83%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 8 (16.67%) Operational Technology
5 4 (8.33%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Security Operations
2 19 (39.58%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 15 (31.25%) Incident Response
4 15 (31.25%) Mentoring
5 14 (29.17%) SIEM
6 13 (27.08%) Cloud Security
6 13 (27.08%) Coaching
6 13 (27.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 13 (27.08%) ITIL
7 12 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 12 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
8 11 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (22.92%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (20.83%) Roadmaps
10 8 (16.67%) Application Security
10 8 (16.67%) Business Strategy
10 8 (16.67%) Change Advisory Board
10 8 (16.67%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.92%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (8.33%) Bicep
3 4 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) CISSP
3 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.42%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) CGEIT
5 3 (6.25%) CRISC
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.17%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (4.17%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.17%) OSCP
7 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CCSP
7 1 (2.08%) CISA
7 1 (2.08%) CISM
7 1 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (47.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (41.67%) NIST
3 8 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 7 (14.58%) GDPR
5 6 (12.50%) GRC
5 6 (12.50%) NCSC
6 3 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
8 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Terraform
2 4 (8.33%) Nessus
3 3 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.58%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.42%) Splunk
3 5 (10.42%) Tenable
4 4 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (6.25%) SAP
6 2 (4.17%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.17%) Cisco
6 2 (4.17%) HP
6 2 (4.17%) Qualys
6 2 (4.17%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.08%) Citrix
7 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.08%) Imperva
7 1 (2.08%) Okta
7 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.08%) Thales
7 1 (2.08%) Trend Micro