Vulnerability Remediation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation
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 Remediation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 550 712
Rank change year-on-year -7 +162 -128
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 212 196 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.33% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 120 105 87
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +0.92% +28.24%
75th Percentile £61,563 £67,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Remediation 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 59,369 58,705 66,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 95.62% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,125 30,119 41,488
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 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK excluding London

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 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
Scotland +17 87 £47,000 -27.69% 1
North of England +57 61 £50,000 -5.66% 5
North West +29 44 £57,500 -1.71% 5
South East -28 35 £47,000 -12.56% 6
Midlands -7 18 £50,000 - 5
Yorkshire +87 16 £43,750 -12.50%
West Midlands +13 10 £65,500 +31.00% 2
East Midlands -14 8 £40,000 -15.79% 3
East of England +13 6 £32,500 -48.00% 1
Wales +9 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland +26 1 - -
North East -6 1 £50,000 +23.46%
South West -38 1 - - 2
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 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.79%) AWS
2 73 (34.43%) Azure
3 72 (33.96%) Datadog
4 52 (24.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 51 (24.06%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.83%) SaaS
7 4 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (22.17%) Firewall
2 44 (20.75%) DNS
3 30 (14.15%) Internet
4 26 (12.26%) DKIM
4 26 (12.26%) DMARC
5 19 (8.96%) Network Security
6 10 (4.72%) VPN
7 8 (3.77%) VLAN
8 5 (2.36%) DHCP
8 5 (2.36%) PBX
8 5 (2.36%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.36%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.42%) 802.11
11 2 (0.94%) DMZ
11 2 (0.94%) HTTP
11 2 (0.94%) LAN
11 2 (0.94%) SMTP
11 2 (0.94%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Git
1 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
General
1 108 (50.94%) Social Skills
2 87 (41.04%) Finance
3 74 (34.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (34.91%) Law
4 44 (20.75%) Marketing
5 16 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.72%) Games
7 7 (3.30%) Banking
8 6 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.89%) Advertising
9 4 (1.89%) Legal
9 4 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.42%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 72 (33.96%) Software Engineer
2 65 (30.66%) Analyst
3 54 (25.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (24.53%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 46 (21.70%) Lead
6 42 (19.81%) Security Analyst
7 41 (19.34%) Lead Software Engineer
8 27 (12.74%) Information Analyst
8 27 (12.74%) Information Security Analyst
9 21 (9.91%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 20 (9.43%) Vulnerability Analyst
11 18 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (6.60%) Vulnerability Manager
13 9 (4.25%) Senior
14 8 (3.77%) Security Engineer
15 7 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 7 (3.30%) IT Engineer
15 7 (3.30%) IT Manager
16 5 (2.36%) Project Engineer
16 5 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (33.96%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (1.42%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.94%) EDI
3 2 (0.94%) RESTful
4 1 (0.47%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 72 (33.96%) Cloud Native
2 52 (24.53%) Public Cloud
3 28 (13.21%) Management Information System
4 26 (12.26%) Cyberattack
5 20 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.30%) Operational Technology
8 6 (2.83%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.94%) BYOD
12 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.47%) IoT
13 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 48 (22.64%) Windows
2 14 (6.60%) Linux
3 12 (5.66%) Unix
4 10 (4.72%) VMS
5 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (49.06%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (36.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 76 (35.85%) Agile
4 72 (33.96%) Architectural Design
4 72 (33.96%) Artificial Intelligence
4 72 (33.96%) CI/CD
4 72 (33.96%) Community of Practice
4 72 (33.96%) Information Architecture
4 72 (33.96%) Machine Learning
4 72 (33.96%) Observability
4 72 (33.96%) Operational Stability
4 72 (33.96%) SDLC
4 72 (33.96%) Software Engineering
5 70 (33.02%) Continuous Delivery
6 66 (31.13%) Information Security
7 56 (26.42%) Identity Access Management
8 52 (24.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 36 (16.98%) Vulnerability Management
10 35 (16.51%) Patch Management
10 35 (16.51%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 54 (25.47%) Java
2 14 (6.60%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.36%) Python
4 2 (0.94%) Bash
4 2 (0.94%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (9.91%) Degree
2 17 (8.02%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.08%) CISM
3 15 (7.08%) CISSP
4 13 (6.13%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.19%) CISA
5 11 (5.19%) PCI QSA
6 6 (2.83%) CCNA
6 6 (2.83%) CCNP
6 6 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.36%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.89%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.94%) CASP
9 2 (0.94%) CCDP
9 2 (0.94%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.94%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (21.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (8.49%) NIST
3 13 (6.13%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.89%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.89%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.42%) GRC
6 3 (1.42%) SLA
7 2 (0.94%) GDPR
7 2 (0.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (12.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.19%) Hyper-V
2 11 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (33.96%) Grafana
2 54 (25.47%) Terraform
3 26 (12.26%) CASB
3 26 (12.26%) WSUS
4 20 (9.43%) Prometheus
5 16 (7.55%) SCCM
6 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.89%) Nessus
8 3 (1.42%) CSIRT
8 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.94%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 73 (34.43%) Splunk
2 72 (33.96%) Dynatrace
3 55 (25.94%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.55%) VMware
5 10 (4.72%) Apple
5 10 (4.72%) Cisco
6 9 (4.25%) Qualys
7 3 (1.42%) LogRhythm
7 3 (1.42%) SonicWALL
7 3 (1.42%) Veeam
8 2 (0.94%) Forcepoint
8 2 (0.94%) N-able
8 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.94%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.94%) Varonis
9 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.47%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.47%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.47%) Tanium