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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 559 540
Rank change year-on-year +35 -19 +177
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 51 209 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.35% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 36 118 105
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -14.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £64,063 £62,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,114 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,988 59,840 56,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.56% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,070 41,306 29,083
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 19 May 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 19 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
North of England +11 26 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South East +73 14 £45,000 -4.26% 26
Yorkshire +62 14 £52,500 +20.00% 7
North West -38 11 £64,434 +12.06% 7
Midlands +60 6 £40,000 - 6
South West +107 3 £47,500 - 5
West Midlands +37 3 £40,000 -50.00% 3
East Midlands +21 3 £59,500 +48.75% 3
North East +41 1 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Scotland +35 1 £62,500 +32.98% 6
East of England +34 1 £45,000 +38.46%
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 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 13 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (25.49%) PaaS
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.92%) IaaS
5 2 (3.92%) Mimecast
5 2 (3.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.96%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (31.37%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) DHCP
2 4 (7.84%) DNS
3 3 (5.88%) Network Security
3 3 (5.88%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
1 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (1.96%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (39.22%) Finance
2 11 (21.57%) Law
3 6 (11.76%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (54.90%) Security Engineer
2 16 (31.37%) Lead
3 12 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (23.53%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Data Manager
5 6 (11.76%) Resilience Manager
6 4 (7.84%) Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Information Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Information Security Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Security Administrator
9 1 (1.96%) Senior
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) YAML
2 6 (11.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (47.06%) Security Posture
2 11 (21.57%) Cloud Security Posture
3 6 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.92%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.84%) Linux
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.96%) AIX
5 1 (1.96%) Solaris
5 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 28 (54.90%) DevOps
3 19 (37.25%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (31.37%) Cloud Security
5 14 (27.45%) Agile
5 14 (27.45%) Coaching
5 14 (27.45%) Mentoring
5 14 (27.45%) SDLC
6 13 (25.49%) Application Security
6 13 (25.49%) Backlog Management
6 13 (25.49%) CI/CD
6 13 (25.49%) Computer Science
6 13 (25.49%) Creative Thinking
6 13 (25.49%) DevSecOps
6 13 (25.49%) OWASP
6 13 (25.49%) Product Management
6 13 (25.49%) Product Strategy
6 13 (25.49%) Security Testing
6 13 (25.49%) Test Automation
6 13 (25.49%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.69%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Degree
2 13 (25.49%) AWS Certification
2 13 (25.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (25.49%) Master's Degree
3 11 (21.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) CCNA
5 1 (1.96%) CCNP
5 1 (1.96%) CCSA
5 1 (1.96%) CCSE
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (41.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (39.22%) NIST
3 13 (25.49%) NCSC
4 4 (7.84%) GDPR
5 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.96%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.84%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.96%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Ansible
2 4 (7.84%) SCCM
2 4 (7.84%) SCOM
2 4 (7.84%) Terraform
3 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (3.92%) WSUS
4 1 (1.96%) Grafana
4 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.92%) Tenable
4 2 (3.92%) Varonis
5 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.96%) Juniper
5 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto