Vulnerability Scanning Job Trends in South Wales

Vulnerability Scanning
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 11 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £52,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £46,250 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,255 536 728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 69.22% 84.81% 64.48%
Number of salaries quoted 931 405 569
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in South Wales

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Vulnerability Scanning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Newport - 10 - -
Caerphilly - 1 £50,000 -
Vulnerability Scanning
Wales

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) DHCP
1 10 (90.91%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (90.91%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) IT Security Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) Windows Server
2 10 (90.91%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Customer Experience
1 10 (90.91%) Customer Service
1 10 (90.91%) Email Filtering
1 10 (90.91%) Kalman Filter
1 10 (90.91%) Migration
1 10 (90.91%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (90.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 10 (90.91%) Web Filtering
2 1 (9.09%) Due Diligence
2 1 (9.09%) Information Security
2 1 (9.09%) SIEM
2 1 (9.09%) Validation
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (90.91%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
1 10 (90.91%) Hyper-V
1 10 (90.91%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (90.91%) Brocade
2 10 (90.91%) Nimble Storage
2 10 (90.91%) SolarWinds
2 10 (90.91%) Splunk
2 10 (90.91%) Tanium
2 10 (90.91%) Veeam
2 10 (90.91%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco