Vulnerability Remediation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 552 530
Rank change year-on-year +61 -22 +177
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 75 132 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.27% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 28 54 75
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,125 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -18.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £69,402 £64,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £56,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +24.44% -13.46% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,764 48,527 39,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.84% 78.72% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,529 28,450 24,638
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -8.99% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Vulnerability Remediation

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 31 £47,500 - 2
South East +53 20 £70,000 +64.71% 15
North of England +2 13 £65,000 +18.18% 2
North West +2 8 £63,184 +9.88% 2
Yorkshire +12 5 £65,000 +36.84%
Midlands +58 4 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Wales - 4 - - 1
West Midlands +43 2 - - 2
Scotland +28 2 - -
East Midlands +27 2 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £55,000 -
Vulnerability Remediation
UK

Vulnerability Remediation
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 32 (42.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 50 (66.67%) Azure
2 34 (45.33%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (14.67%) PaaS
4 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.67%) AWS
6 4 (5.33%) SaaS
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.67%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.67%) IaaS
8 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (49.33%) DHCP
1 37 (49.33%) DNS
2 6 (8.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.67%) Network Security
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.33%) SSL
4 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.33%) DTS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Git
1 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
1 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (2.67%) Vagrant
2 1 (1.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 42 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.00%) Finance
4 4 (5.33%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Humanities
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (42.67%) Systems Engineer
2 13 (17.33%) Security Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Lead
4 9 (12.00%) Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Security Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Senior
7 4 (5.33%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Resilience Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Security Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Incident Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Information Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Information Security Analyst
9 2 (2.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (2.67%) Operational Security Manager
9 2 (2.67%) Security Manager
9 2 (2.67%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) YAML
2 4 (5.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 32 (42.67%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (18.67%) Security Posture
3 7 (9.33%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 2 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 41 (54.67%) Linux
1 41 (54.67%) Windows
2 38 (50.67%) Windows Server
3 33 (44.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.67%) VMS
6 1 (1.33%) AIX
6 1 (1.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (45.33%) Customer Service
2 34 (45.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 33 (44.00%) Customer Experience
4 32 (42.67%) Email Filtering
4 32 (42.67%) Kalman Filter
4 32 (42.67%) Migration
4 32 (42.67%) Web Filtering
5 28 (37.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 17 (22.67%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (20.00%) DevOps
8 14 (18.67%) Incident Response
9 11 (14.67%) Agile
9 11 (14.67%) Coaching
9 11 (14.67%) Threat Modelling
10 10 (13.33%) CI/CD
10 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 10 (13.33%) SDLC
11 9 (12.00%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.00%) Python
3 3 (4.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 35 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) Degree
3 9 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (12.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) CCNA
6 1 (1.33%) CCNP
6 1 (1.33%) CCSA
6 1 (1.33%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.33%) CISM
6 1 (1.33%) CISSP
6 1 (1.33%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.33%) GIAC
6 1 (1.33%) OSCP
6 1 (1.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (45.33%) PCI DSS
2 32 (42.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (21.33%) NIST
4 15 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (12.00%) NCSC
6 4 (5.33%) GDPR
7 3 (4.00%) GRC
8 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.33%) COBIT
9 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 36 (48.00%) Hyper-V
3 32 (42.67%) Terminal Server
4 2 (2.67%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Ansible
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 4 (5.33%) SCCM
2 4 (5.33%) SCOM
2 4 (5.33%) WSUS
3 3 (4.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 3 (4.00%) Nessus
3 3 (4.00%) Terraform
4 2 (2.67%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 33 (44.00%) VMware
3 32 (42.67%) Brocade
3 32 (42.67%) Nimble Storage
3 32 (42.67%) SolarWinds
3 32 (42.67%) Splunk
3 32 (42.67%) Tanium
3 32 (42.67%) Veeam
4 6 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.33%) Oracle
5 4 (5.33%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.33%) Tenable
6 2 (2.67%) Juniper
7 1 (1.33%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco
7 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto