Vulnerability Assessment Jobs

Vulnerability Assessment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 703 725
Rank change year-on-year +225 +22 +85
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 239 211 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.20% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 126 169 160
10th Percentile £41,750 £38,750 £36,700
25th Percentile £47,094 £52,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £67,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.54% -8.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,625 £92,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% -17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Assessment 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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +198 232 £57,500 -17.86% 585
Work from Home +181 116 £55,000 -8.33% 527
UK excluding London +177 108 £55,000 -8.33% 611
London +113 78 £70,000 -6.67% 45
South East +77 34 £67,500 -12.90% 154
North of England +60 25 £57,500 +35.29% 134
Midlands +91 24 £55,000 +25.71% 113
West Midlands +65 19 £55,000 +37.50% 58
East of England +51 13 £62,500 -13.79% 95
North West +10 10 £60,000 +56.86% 64
South West +101 8 £60,000 -4.00% 78
North East +50 8 £57,500 +35.29% 17
Yorkshire +64 7 £72,500 +20.83% 53
East Midlands +44 5 £37,500 -21.05% 47
Northern Ireland +43 3 - - 12
Wales +45 1 £55,000 - 15

Vulnerability Assessment
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 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 108 (45.19%) AWS
2 82 (34.31%) AWS Lambda
2 82 (34.31%) Serverless
3 53 (22.18%) Azure
4 22 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.60%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (3.77%) GCP
7 6 (2.51%) SaaS
8 5 (2.09%) IaaS
8 5 (2.09%) PaaS
9 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.84%) Asana
10 2 (0.84%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.84%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.84%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.42%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 89 (37.24%) SSL
2 86 (35.98%) Firewall
3 83 (34.73%) SSH
4 82 (34.31%) Broadband
5 45 (18.83%) Intrusion Detection
6 41 (17.15%) Network Security
7 27 (11.30%) VPN
8 26 (10.88%) TCP/IP
9 16 (6.69%) DNS
10 15 (6.28%) BGP
10 15 (6.28%) LAN
10 15 (6.28%) OSPF
10 15 (6.28%) WAN
11 8 (3.35%) VLAN
12 7 (2.93%) MPLS
12 7 (2.93%) Spanning Tree
13 6 (2.51%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (2.51%) DWDM
13 6 (2.51%) SD-WAN
14 5 (2.09%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.42%) MySQL
1 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.42%) Power BI
1 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (2.51%) Metasploit
3 3 (1.26%) AppScan
4 2 (0.84%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
General
1 134 (56.07%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (12.55%) Finance
4 10 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (3.77%) Banking
6 7 (2.93%) Mandarin Language
6 7 (2.93%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.51%) Legal
7 6 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.09%) Law
8 5 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Automotive
10 1 (0.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (34.73%) Cloud Engineer
2 82 (34.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (20.50%) Analyst
4 42 (17.57%) Security Analyst
5 26 (10.88%) Lead
6 21 (8.79%) Network Engineer
7 18 (7.53%) Senior
8 17 (7.11%) Security Engineer
9 14 (5.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 9 (3.77%) IT Analyst
10 9 (3.77%) IT Security Analyst
11 8 (3.35%) Information Analyst
11 8 (3.35%) Information Security Analyst
12 7 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.93%) Penetration Tester
12 7 (2.93%) Tester
13 6 (2.51%) IT Engineer
14 5 (2.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 5 (2.09%) Network Security Engineer
14 5 (2.09%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (34.31%) RESTful
1 82 (34.31%) Web Services
2 2 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.84%) PyTorch
2 2 (0.84%) scikit-learn
2 2 (0.84%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.42%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 122 (51.05%) Management Information System
2 95 (39.75%) Cyber Threat
3 89 (37.24%) PKI
4 85 (35.56%) Cyberattack
5 82 (34.31%) Onboarding
6 28 (11.72%) Security Posture
7 13 (5.44%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (4.18%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.51%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.09%) CESG
12 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.67%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.67%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.67%) SCADA
13 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
15 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.25%) Windows
2 17 (7.11%) Linux
3 9 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.67%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (68.62%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (37.24%) DevOps
2 89 (37.24%) Roadmaps
3 86 (35.98%) Key Management
4 83 (34.73%) Deployment Automation
4 83 (34.73%) Use Case
5 82 (34.31%) Programme Delivery
6 74 (30.96%) Information Security
7 59 (24.69%) Incident Response
8 57 (23.85%) SIEM
9 54 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (17.99%) Penetration Testing
11 42 (17.57%) Security Operations
12 33 (13.81%) Computer Science
13 31 (12.97%) Vulnerability Management
14 23 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
15 22 (9.21%) ITIL
16 20 (8.37%) Business Continuity
16 20 (8.37%) CI/CD
16 20 (8.37%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 124 (51.88%) Python
2 20 (8.37%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.11%) Bash
4 12 (5.02%) C#
5 11 (4.60%) Java
6 6 (2.51%) Go
6 6 (2.51%) SQL
7 5 (2.09%) C++
8 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.26%) Rust
9 2 (0.84%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.84%) Perl
9 2 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (20.50%) Degree
2 39 (16.32%) CISSP
3 24 (10.04%) CompTIA Security+
4 22 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.11%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (7.11%) CISM
6 16 (6.69%) Security Cleared
7 14 (5.86%) CCNA
7 14 (5.86%) CCNP
8 12 (5.02%) OSCP
8 12 (5.02%) SC Cleared
9 11 (4.60%) CEH
10 10 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (3.77%) GIAC
12 7 (2.93%) MCSA
13 6 (2.51%) CESG Certified Professional
13 6 (2.51%) JNCIA
13 6 (2.51%) JNCIS
14 5 (2.09%) CompTIA CySA+
14 5 (2.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (61.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 122 (51.05%) NIST
3 22 (9.21%) GDPR
4 13 (5.44%) PCI DSS
5 12 (5.02%) COBIT
6 7 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.51%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.51%) NCSC
8 5 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (2.09%) NIST 800
9 4 (1.67%) SLA
9 4 (1.67%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.26%) GRC
10 3 (1.26%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 93 (38.91%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.35%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.42%) Firmware
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 90 (37.66%) Terraform
2 15 (6.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.18%) Ansible
4 5 (2.09%) HP Fortify
4 5 (2.09%) Nessus
5 4 (1.67%) SCCM
6 3 (1.26%) Puppet
7 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.84%) Nmap
7 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.84%) SCOM
8 1 (0.42%) Grafana
8 1 (0.42%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (34.31%) Thales
2 55 (23.01%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.04%) Cisco
4 19 (7.95%) VMware
5 11 (4.60%) Tenable
6 7 (2.93%) Juniper
7 6 (2.51%) Arista
8 4 (1.67%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.26%) Alibaba
9 3 (1.26%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.26%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.26%) Trustwave
10 2 (0.84%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.84%) Aruba
10 2 (0.84%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.84%) Citrix
10 2 (0.84%) F5
10 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.84%) Splunk