Vulnerability Scanning Job Trends in the South East

Vulnerability Scanning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 288 253
Rank change year-on-year +18 -35 +109
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 6 19 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.058% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 12
10th Percentile £54,900 £55,000 £42,325
25th Percentile £58,500 £77,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +21.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £66,563 - £76,875
90th Percentile £71,625 £92,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,394 8,137 6,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 87.63% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,969 4,002 4,895
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £44,106 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,300
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in the South East

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the South East

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley +17 3 £61,000 -46.96% 2
Hampshire +28 2 - - 6
Oxfordshire - 2 £58,750 -
Berkshire +5 1 £61,000 -46.96% 1
West Sussex - 1 £75,000 -
Vulnerability Scanning
England

Vulnerability Scanning
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) TestRail
2 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 2 (33.33%) OWASP
2 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Server Building
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Management
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (33.33%) NIST
4 1 (16.67%) GDPR
4 1 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Nessus
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk