Vulnerability Assessment Jobs in the South West

Vulnerability Assessment
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 271 265
Rank change year-on-year +100 -6 +32
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 9 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £48,750 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £24,146
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £37,073
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +68.59% -42.96%
75th Percentile £71,563 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £73,750 - £54,000
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
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,345 7,776 6,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.18% 82.91% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 5,600 3,523
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £39,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £78,900 £80,000 £81,250
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the South West

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the South West

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the South West

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Bristol +59 4 £61,250 - 9
Gloucestershire +61 2 - - 10
Wiltshire +41 1 £65,000 - 1
Devon - 1 - - 1
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (22.22%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) Broadband
3 2 (22.22%) Internet
3 2 (22.22%) SSH
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
4 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Burp Suite
1 2 (22.22%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Penetration Tester
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Tester
1 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (55.56%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (22.22%) Cyberattack
4 2 (22.22%) PKI
5 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (11.11%) Insider Threat
5 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
5 1 (11.11%) SCADA
5 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Cryptography
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) Key Management
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Red Team
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CHECK Team Member
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) CREST Certified
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CEH
2 1 (11.11%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (11.11%) GCFE
2 1 (11.11%) GIAC
2 1 (11.11%) GISP
2 1 (11.11%) GSEC
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) GRC
3 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 1 (11.11%) JSP 440
3 1 (11.11%) NCSC
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Nmap
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Thales
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Intel
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds