Vulnerability Scanning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 628 601 716
Rank change year-on-year -27 +115 -163
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 130 165 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 100 97 91
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £36,587
25th Percentile £39,938 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £62,813 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning 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 59,217 59,337 66,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 95.62% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 30,395 41,344
10th Percentile £27,234 £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 £61,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
North of England +65 47 £46,250 -15.91% 17
South West -19 24 £45,000 -10.00% 6
South East -23 23 £75,000 +42.86% 4
Yorkshire +95 21 £50,000 - 11
Midlands -3 17 £65,000 +52.94% 3
North West +19 16 £43,500 -37.86% 5
East Midlands -14 13 £65,000 +87.97% 1
Scotland -60 12 £37,500 -37.00% 3
North East +9 10 £41,250 -25.00% 1
West Midlands +7 4 £51,750 +21.76% 2
Northern Ireland +23 3 £90,000 +111.76% 1
East of England +26 2 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Wales 0 2 - - 2
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
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 (0.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.85%) Azure
2 33 (25.38%) AWS
3 30 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (12.31%) Entra ID
5 11 (8.46%) SaaS
6 8 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (6.15%) Cloudflare
7 4 (3.08%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.31%) IaaS
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.77%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.77%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.77%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.77%) PaaS
10 1 (0.77%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (37.69%) Firewall
2 16 (12.31%) Network Security
3 14 (10.77%) Intrusion Detection
3 14 (10.77%) VPN
4 10 (7.69%) LAN
4 10 (7.69%) VLAN
4 10 (7.69%) WAN
5 8 (6.15%) DNS
6 4 (3.08%) Internet
7 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.31%) Wireless
8 2 (1.54%) BGP
8 2 (1.54%) DHCP
8 2 (1.54%) DKIM
8 2 (1.54%) HTTP
8 2 (1.54%) IPsec
8 2 (1.54%) OSPF
8 2 (1.54%) SMTP
8 2 (1.54%) tcpdump
8 2 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Burp Suite
1 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.31%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.77%) JIRA
General
1 30 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.77%) Retail
4 9 (6.92%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.15%) Games
5 8 (6.15%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.38%) Aerospace
6 7 (5.38%) Aviation
6 7 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.38%) Military
7 5 (3.85%) Finance
7 5 (3.85%) Legal
8 3 (2.31%) Law
8 3 (2.31%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) Analyst
2 36 (27.69%) Security Analyst
3 16 (12.31%) Architect
3 16 (12.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 13 (10.00%) Consultant
4 13 (10.00%) Security Consultant
4 13 (10.00%) Senior
5 12 (9.23%) IT Engineer
5 12 (9.23%) Security Engineer
6 11 (8.46%) Information Security Consultant
6 11 (8.46%) IT Analyst
6 11 (8.46%) IT Security Analyst
7 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
7 10 (7.69%) Lead
8 8 (6.15%) Technical Leader
9 7 (5.38%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Senior IT Security Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Senior Security Analyst
10 6 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.15%) Laravel
2 1 (0.77%) OAuth
2 1 (0.77%) OpenID
2 1 (0.77%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 17 (13.08%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (12.31%) Management Information System
4 14 (10.77%) IoT
4 14 (10.77%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (7.69%) Cyberattack
5 10 (7.69%) Operational Technology
6 8 (6.15%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.62%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.85%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.54%) Life Science
11 2 (1.54%) PKI
11 2 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (30.77%) Windows
2 24 (18.46%) Windows Server
3 15 (11.54%) Linux
4 13 (10.00%) Unix
5 5 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.31%) Kali Linux
7 2 (1.54%) VMS
7 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (68.46%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (37.69%) Information Security
3 48 (36.92%) SIEM
4 45 (34.62%) Incident Response
5 39 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 37 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (28.46%) Security Operations
7 33 (25.38%) Penetration Testing
8 31 (23.85%) Cloud Security
9 24 (18.46%) Data Protection
10 21 (16.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 21 (16.15%) Threat Intelligence
11 19 (14.62%) Incident Management
12 17 (13.08%) Security Auditing
13 16 (12.31%) ITIL
14 15 (11.54%) Computer Science
14 15 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
15 14 (10.77%) Risk Management
15 14 (10.77%) Security Testing
16 12 (9.23%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 29 (22.31%) PowerShell
2 20 (15.38%) Python
3 12 (9.23%) Bash
4 8 (6.15%) PHP
4 8 (6.15%) Rust
5 3 (2.31%) Java
5 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Degree
2 25 (19.23%) CISSP
3 12 (9.23%) CISA
4 11 (8.46%) CompTIA CySA+
5 10 (7.69%) Master's Degree
6 9 (6.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (4.62%) CISMP
7 6 (4.62%) GIAC
7 6 (4.62%) SANS
7 6 (4.62%) Security Cleared
8 5 (3.85%) CREST Certified
8 5 (3.85%) OSCP
8 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.31%) CISM
10 3 (2.31%) OSCE
11 2 (1.54%) CEH
11 2 (1.54%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (33.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (22.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 29 (22.31%) GDPR
3 27 (20.77%) NIST
4 14 (10.77%) PCI DSS
5 10 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 9 (6.92%) SOC 2
7 8 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (5.38%) DO-254
8 7 (5.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (4.62%) COBIT
10 5 (3.85%) NCSC
11 2 (1.54%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.77%) GxP
12 1 (0.77%) QA
12 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (20.77%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.85%) Hyper-V
3 10 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.54%) Docker
5 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.77%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (11.54%) CASB
2 14 (10.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (8.46%) Nessus
4 8 (6.15%) SCCM
5 3 (2.31%) Nmap
5 3 (2.31%) Terraform
5 3 (2.31%) WSUS
6 2 (1.54%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.54%) Grafana
6 2 (1.54%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.77%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (0.77%) QRadar
7 1 (0.77%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (0.77%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (43.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) Qualys
3 9 (6.92%) VMware
4 7 (5.38%) Dell
5 6 (4.62%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.85%) HP
7 4 (3.08%) Aderant
7 4 (3.08%) Cisco
7 4 (3.08%) iManage
8 2 (1.54%) Juniper
8 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.77%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.77%) NetApp
9 1 (0.77%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.77%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.77%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.77%) Splunk
9 1 (0.77%) Symantec
9 1 (0.77%) Varonis