Vulnerability Assessment Jobs in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 628 619 618
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -94
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 133 136 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 101 74 198
10th Percentile £37,500 £24,146 £37,535
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -20.50% +8.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,750 £83,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £56,000 £63,187
% change year-on-year +20.54% -11.37% -4.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 57,513 66,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.96% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,236 29,661 40,975
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
South East -17 48 £80,000 +60.00% 5
North of England +64 21 £46,500 +0.54% 3
Midlands -15 19 £43,750 -7.89% 3
Scotland -42 13 £60,000 +41.18% 1
West Midlands +25 12 £40,000 -45.21% 3
South West -21 12 £62,500 +25.00% 5
North West +9 10 £39,000 +1.30% 2
East of England +14 9 £72,500 +31.82% 7
East Midlands -21 7 £47,500 -
Yorkshire +84 6 £60,000 -33.33%
North East - 5 £42,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £57,500 - 2
Wales +16 3 - - 2
Vulnerability Assessment
UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.82%) Azure
2 33 (24.81%) AWS
3 13 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.02%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (9.02%) Datadog
5 9 (6.77%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (6.02%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.26%) GCP
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.26%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.26%) Route 53
9 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.50%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 41 (30.83%) Firewall
2 21 (15.79%) Network Security
3 14 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (3.76%) VPN
5 4 (3.01%) SAN
5 4 (3.01%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.26%) Wireless
7 2 (1.50%) Internet
7 2 (1.50%) NAS
7 2 (1.50%) Wireless Security
8 1 (0.75%) DHCP
8 1 (0.75%) DNS
8 1 (0.75%) LAN
8 1 (0.75%) OSPF
8 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.50%) Big Data
3 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (9.02%) GitLab
1 12 (9.02%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.01%) Burp Suite
3 3 (2.26%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.75%) AppScan
4 1 (0.75%) MSI
4 1 (0.75%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.54%) Finance
3 16 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.26%) Legal
6 6 (4.51%) Law
6 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.51%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.76%) Banking
8 4 (3.01%) Marketing
8 4 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (30.83%) Analyst
2 27 (20.30%) Security Analyst
3 19 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 18 (13.53%) Security Manager
5 17 (12.78%) Lead
6 13 (9.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Lead DevOps
7 12 (9.02%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Information Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Information Security Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Security Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Architect
9 7 (5.26%) IoT Architect
9 7 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Systems Architect
10 6 (4.51%) Head of Compliance
10 6 (4.51%) Head of Information
10 6 (4.51%) Head of Information Assurance
10 6 (4.51%) Penetration Tester
11 5 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) .NET
2 3 (2.26%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.56%) Management Information System
2 25 (18.80%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.77%) IoT
5 8 (6.02%) Operational Technology
6 7 (5.26%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.51%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (3.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (3.01%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (3.01%) SCADA
10 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.26%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.31%) Windows
2 21 (15.79%) Linux
3 10 (7.52%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.02%) Unix
5 4 (3.01%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.26%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (37.59%) Incident Response
3 38 (28.57%) Information Security
4 36 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (26.32%) SIEM
6 32 (24.06%) Penetration Testing
7 23 (17.29%) Cloud Security
7 23 (17.29%) DevOps
7 23 (17.29%) Risk Management
8 21 (15.79%) Computer Science
9 20 (15.04%) CI/CD
9 20 (15.04%) Security Operations
9 20 (15.04%) Vulnerability Management
10 18 (13.53%) Threat Intelligence
11 16 (12.03%) Containerisation
11 16 (12.03%) Deployment Automation
12 15 (11.28%) Agile
12 15 (11.28%) Microservices
12 15 (11.28%) Server Management
13 14 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.28%) Python
2 9 (6.77%) C#
3 7 (5.26%) C
3 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.51%) Bash
5 4 (3.01%) C++
6 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (24.81%) Degree
2 25 (18.80%) CISSP
3 20 (15.04%) AWS Certification
4 19 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 18 (13.53%) CISM
6 12 (9.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (6.77%) Master's Degree
8 9 (6.77%) SC Cleared
9 8 (6.02%) CISA
10 7 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (4.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.76%) CCNA
12 5 (3.76%) CEH
12 5 (3.76%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (3.76%) OSCP
13 4 (3.01%) CRISC
14 3 (2.26%) CHECK Team Member
14 3 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (34.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (29.32%) NIST
3 15 (11.28%) NIST 800
4 14 (10.53%) GRC
5 12 (9.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (7.52%) NCSC
7 7 (5.26%) ISO 13485
7 7 (5.26%) QA
8 6 (4.51%) GDPR
9 5 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (2.26%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.75%) FISMA
11 1 (0.75%) HITRUST
11 1 (0.75%) IASME
11 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.75%) SLA
11 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (11.28%) Docker
2 11 (8.27%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.76%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.26%) KVM
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (12.03%) Kubernetes
1 16 (12.03%) Terraform
2 12 (9.02%) Consul
2 12 (9.02%) Puppet
3 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.26%) CSIRT
4 3 (2.26%) Nessus
5 2 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.50%) Nmap
5 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.75%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (0.75%) QRadar
6 1 (0.75%) SCCM
6 1 (0.75%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 29 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.02%) VMware
3 5 (3.76%) Cisco
4 4 (3.01%) Intel
4 4 (3.01%) Qualys
5 3 (2.26%) Google
6 2 (1.50%) Splunk
7 1 (0.75%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.75%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.75%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.75%) Symantec
7 1 (0.75%) Thales
7 1 (0.75%) Trustwave
7 1 (0.75%) Varonis
7 1 (0.75%) Zscaler