Vulnerability Management Jobs

Vulnerability Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 431 281
Rank change year-on-year +71 -150 +263
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 391 564 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.57% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.67% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 314 419 468
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,900 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £64,987
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +0.02% +3.98%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Management 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,790 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,810 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +29 349 £70,000 +7.69% 322
UK excluding London +61 207 £55,000 +4.76% 214
London +83 158 £82,500 +3.13% 180
Work from Home +103 131 £60,000 -1.72% 184
North of England +28 68 £60,000 +15.20% 58
South East +65 65 £55,000 -15.38% 86
North West -6 38 £75,000 +44.00% 32
Yorkshire +60 28 £50,000 -11.50% 22
Midlands +46 22 £53,094 +32.74% 14
Scotland +121 20 £62,500 +19.05% 17
South West +80 18 £55,000 +4.76% 24
West Midlands +51 18 £57,500 +53.33% 7
East of England +16 14 £42,085 -41.95% 11
East Midlands +36 4 £49,500 +0.51% 7
North East +49 2 £37,000 -7.50% 6
Wales +25 1 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 - 2

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.77%) CMS
3 3 (0.77%) WordPress
4 2 (0.51%) Apache
4 2 (0.51%) Confluence
4 2 (0.51%) Drupal
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 136 (34.78%) Azure
2 54 (13.81%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (13.55%) AWS
4 35 (8.95%) GCP
5 26 (6.65%) Azure Sentinel
6 24 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (6.14%) PaaS
7 18 (4.60%) SaaS
8 16 (4.09%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.79%) Google Workspace
9 7 (1.79%) IaaS
10 6 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.28%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.28%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (1.02%) Serverless
13 3 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 129 (32.99%) Firewall
2 80 (20.46%) Network Security
3 30 (7.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 26 (6.65%) VPN
5 24 (6.14%) DNS
6 17 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.32%) HTTP
8 11 (2.81%) SMTP
8 11 (2.81%) Wireless
9 10 (2.56%) LAN
10 9 (2.30%) SSL
10 9 (2.30%) WAN
11 8 (2.05%) VLAN
12 7 (1.79%) BGP
12 7 (1.79%) OSPF
12 7 (1.79%) Spanning Tree
12 7 (1.79%) Wireshark
13 6 (1.53%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (1.28%) SAN
14 5 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.28%) Power BI
1 5 (1.28%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.02%) MySQL
3 3 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.05%) Burp Suite
2 7 (1.79%) Git
3 4 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.77%) MLflow
5 2 (0.51%) JIRA
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.26%) GitLab
6 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.26%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.26%) SoapUI
General
1 100 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 87 (22.25%) Finance
3 53 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.70%) Law
5 24 (6.14%) Retail
6 23 (5.88%) Legal
7 19 (4.86%) Banking
8 14 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (1.28%) Front Office
11 5 (1.28%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.02%) Local Government
13 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.77%) Military
13 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (22.51%) Security Engineer
2 71 (18.16%) Analyst
3 55 (14.07%) Security Analyst
4 51 (13.04%) Lead
5 43 (11.00%) Senior
6 36 (9.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 27 (6.91%) Architect
8 26 (6.65%) Security Manager
9 24 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 24 (6.14%) Vulnerability Manager
10 23 (5.88%) Security Architect
11 21 (5.37%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 21 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (5.12%) Consultant
13 18 (4.60%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 15 (3.84%) IT Engineer
15 12 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (3.07%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
15 12 (3.07%) Security Consultant
15 12 (3.07%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.35%) YAML
2 9 (2.30%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (0.77%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.77%) Metaflow
3 3 (0.77%) PyTorch
3 3 (0.77%) scikit-learn
3 3 (0.77%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.51%) CSS
4 2 (0.51%) EDI
4 2 (0.51%) HTML
4 2 (0.51%) HTML5
4 2 (0.51%) jQuery
4 2 (0.51%) LAMP
4 2 (0.51%) Leaflet
4 2 (0.51%) Loki
4 2 (0.51%) React
4 2 (0.51%) Vue
4 2 (0.51%) XML
5 1 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.26%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 137 (35.04%) Security Posture
2 102 (26.09%) Management Information System
3 37 (9.46%) Cyber Threat
4 23 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (5.37%) Social Media
5 21 (5.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 19 (4.86%) Cloud Security Posture
6 19 (4.86%) Data Centre
7 14 (3.58%) Cloud Native
8 12 (3.07%) Security Operations Centre
9 11 (2.81%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.30%) Cyber Security Posture
11 8 (2.05%) Cyberattack
12 7 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 7 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (1.79%) Operational Technology
13 6 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.53%) Replication
14 5 (1.28%) iPhone
14 5 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 82 (20.97%) Windows
2 35 (8.95%) Linux
3 22 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.37%) Windows Vista
5 7 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.53%) Android
6 6 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.77%) VMS
7 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.51%) AIX
8 2 (0.51%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.51%) Unix
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (60.87%) Cybersecurity
2 174 (44.50%) Incident Response
3 155 (39.64%) Information Security
4 131 (33.50%) SIEM
5 106 (27.11%) Security Operations
6 102 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (26.09%) Risk Management
7 90 (23.02%) Cloud Security
8 87 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
10 67 (17.14%) Data Protection
11 64 (16.37%) DevOps
12 62 (15.86%) Computer Science
12 62 (15.86%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 60 (15.35%) DevSecOps
14 49 (12.53%) Security Architecture
14 49 (12.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 48 (12.28%) Data Loss Prevention
16 47 (12.02%) Identity Access Management
16 47 (12.02%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 71 (18.16%) PowerShell
2 52 (13.30%) Python
3 25 (6.39%) Bash
4 6 (1.53%) Perl
5 4 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.02%) PHP
5 4 (1.02%) SQL
6 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.51%) AWK
7 2 (0.51%) Bicep
7 2 (0.51%) C
7 2 (0.51%) C++
7 2 (0.51%) Go
7 2 (0.51%) Korn
8 1 (0.26%) Java
8 1 (0.26%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 113 (28.90%) Degree
2 96 (24.55%) CISSP
3 76 (19.44%) CISM
4 58 (14.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (11.51%) Master's Degree
6 44 (11.25%) CEH
7 38 (9.72%) CISA
8 35 (8.95%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (6.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 25 (6.39%) Security Cleared
10 23 (5.88%) AWS Certification
10 23 (5.88%) CRISC
11 22 (5.63%) DBS Check
12 17 (4.35%) GCIH
13 16 (4.09%) SC Cleared
14 14 (3.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 14 (3.58%) Azure Certification
14 14 (3.58%) CompTIA Security+
15 13 (3.32%) GIAC
16 12 (3.07%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (38.87%) NIST
2 135 (34.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (23.79%) GDPR
4 36 (9.21%) PCI DSS
5 28 (7.16%) NCSC
6 26 (6.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (4.35%) GRC
7 17 (4.35%) SOC 2
8 16 (4.09%) Accessibility
9 14 (3.58%) COBIT
9 14 (3.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (2.05%) NIST 800
11 8 (2.05%) SLA
12 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (1.53%) HIPAA
14 5 (1.28%) JSP 440
15 4 (1.02%) SOC 1
16 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.26%) QA
System Software
1 30 (7.67%) Active Directory
2 24 (6.14%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.05%) Docker
5 6 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.02%) vSphere
7 3 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.51%) KVM
8 2 (0.51%) Postfix
8 2 (0.51%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.26%) Firmware
9 1 (0.26%) NFS
9 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (6.65%) Terraform
2 23 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (5.12%) Kubernetes
4 18 (4.60%) CASB
5 17 (4.35%) Nessus
6 9 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.05%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.79%) Ansible
9 6 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.28%) CSIRT
10 5 (1.28%) RSA Archer
11 4 (1.02%) SCCM
12 3 (0.77%) Istio
12 3 (0.77%) linkerd
12 3 (0.77%) Nagios
12 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.77%) Puppet
13 2 (0.51%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 2 (0.51%) Grafana
14 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 139 (35.55%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.00%) Tenable
3 36 (9.21%) Cisco
4 31 (7.93%) Qualys
5 29 (7.42%) VMware
6 28 (7.16%) Google
7 11 (2.81%) Juniper
7 11 (2.81%) Splunk
8 9 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.05%) Meraki
10 6 (1.53%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.53%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.53%) SAP
11 5 (1.28%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.28%) Tanium
12 4 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.02%) Dell
12 4 (1.02%) Extreme Networks
12 4 (1.02%) LogRhythm
12 4 (1.02%) Zscaler