Vulnerability Remediation Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Remediation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 - 176
Rank change year-on-year - - +54
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 8 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £56,500 - -
25th Percentile £60,758 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,684 - £47,000
75th Percentile £70,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £67,684 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +50.41% -28.00% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Vulnerability Remediation 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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,263 3,198 3,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.25% 91.37% 90.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 1,501 2,242
10th Percentile £29,875 £35,000 £31,763
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Vulnerability Remediation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the Thames Valley

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Berkshire - 4 £63,184 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 4 £70,000 - 3
Vulnerability Remediation
South East

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Humanities
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Information Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
4 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (12.50%) Application Security
6 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (12.50%) CISA
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CREST Certified
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (12.50%) OSCP
2 1 (12.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) NCSC
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
3 1 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Tenable
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft