Vulnerability Scanning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 646 604
Rank change year-on-year +114 -42 +117
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 48 129 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 29 95 92
10th Percentile £40,032 £35,000 £30,725
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £61,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Vulnerability Scanning 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 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
South East +94 19 £58,750 -21.67% 17
North of England +14 18 £60,000 +23.08% 16
Yorkshire +54 17 £70,000 +40.00% 12
South West +96 4 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Midlands +48 4 £40,000 -38.46% 6
Scotland +117 3 £62,500 +56.25% 3
West Midlands +56 2 £40,000 -38.46% 5
East Midlands +22 2 £44,500 -31.54% 1
North West -9 1 £41,831 -7.04% 4
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 2 (4.17%) TPMS
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (27.08%) Azure
3 12 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (4.17%) IaaS
4 2 (4.17%) Mimecast
4 2 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.08%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.08%) Datadog
5 1 (2.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (37.50%) Firewall
2 10 (20.83%) Network Security
3 6 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.17%) DHCP
4 2 (4.17%) VLAN
4 2 (4.17%) VPN
5 1 (2.08%) Bluetooth
5 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.08%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Metasploit
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Aviation
2 6 (12.50%) Law
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.17%) Legal
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.08%) Automotive
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 9 (18.75%) Security Engineer
1 9 (18.75%) Security Specialist
2 7 (14.58%) Consultant
2 7 (14.58%) Information Security Consultant
2 7 (14.58%) Security Consultant
3 6 (12.50%) Analyst
3 6 (12.50%) Lead
3 6 (12.50%) Security Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Information Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Information Security Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Security Manager
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Information Assurance Specialist
6 2 (4.17%) Information Specialist
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) EDI
1 1 (2.08%) pytest
1 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.58%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (14.58%) Cyberattack
3 6 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (12.50%) Robotics
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Windows
2 6 (12.50%) Android
2 6 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.17%) Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) Incident Response
2 27 (56.25%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (50.00%) Information Security
3 24 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 22 (45.83%) SIEM
5 20 (41.67%) Incident Management
6 18 (37.50%) Security Testing
7 16 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
8 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (22.92%) SOAR
10 9 (18.75%) Cloud Security
10 9 (18.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 9 (18.75%) Fuzz Testing
10 9 (18.75%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 9 (18.75%) Proactive Monitoring
10 9 (18.75%) Security Architecture
10 9 (18.75%) Static Application Security Testing
11 8 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 6 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 3 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (2.08%) Bash
2 1 (2.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) CISSP
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) CISM
3 6 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (12.50%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) CEH
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.17%) CCNA
5 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) CCNP
6 1 (2.08%) GCIA
6 1 (2.08%) GIAC
6 1 (2.08%) OSCP
6 1 (2.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (47.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (33.33%) NIST
3 12 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (25.00%) GDPR
4 8 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 7 (14.58%) PCI DSS
6 6 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (8.33%) SOC 2
8 3 (6.25%) SLA
9 2 (4.17%) NCSC
10 1 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) ArcSight ESM
1 6 (12.50%) QRadar
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.08%) Nessus
4 1 (2.08%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 18 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.58%) Splunk
3 6 (12.50%) ArcSight
3 6 (12.50%) Cisco
3 6 (12.50%) LogLogic
3 6 (12.50%) McAfee
4 4 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.17%) Juniper
5 2 (4.17%) Qualys
5 2 (4.17%) Tenable
5 2 (4.17%) Varonis
6 1 (2.08%) Dell
6 1 (2.08%) Meraki
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.08%) SonicWALL