Vulnerability Management Engineer Job Trends

Vulnerability Management Engineer
UK

The median Vulnerability Management Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 704 710
Rank change year-on-year +63 +6 +315
Permanent jobs requiring a Vulnerability Management Engineer 10 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.013% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.014% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 3
10th Percentile £63,875 - -
25th Percentile £86,250 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £87,500 -
90th Percentile - £88,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year +22.50% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Vulnerability Management Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Vulnerability Management Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management Engineer over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management Engineer in the UK

Vulnerability Management Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 +79 10 £90,000 +5.88%
London +34 8 £90,000 +5.88%
UK excluding London +62 2 £61,250 +22.50%
North of England +24 2 £61,250 +22.50%
Yorkshire - 2 £61,250 -

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Vulnerability Management Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Vulnerability Management Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (80.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 8 (80.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 7 (70.00%) Accessibility
3 7 (70.00%) Bash
3 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Data Collection
3 7 (70.00%) Degree
3 7 (70.00%) Go
3 7 (70.00%) JIRA
3 7 (70.00%) NIST
3 7 (70.00%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (70.00%) Python
3 7 (70.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (70.00%) Slack
3 7 (70.00%) Technology Transformation
3 7 (70.00%) Tenable
3 7 (70.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (30.00%) Information Security
5 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (10.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Cyber Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity

Vulnerability Management Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Slack
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Influencing Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 8 (80.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Data Collection
3 7 (70.00%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Technology Transformation
4 3 (30.00%) Information Security
5 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Cyber Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 1 (10.00%) Offensive Security
6 1 (10.00%) OWASP
6 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Bash
1 7 (70.00%) Go
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (70.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (70.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (70.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) ServiceNow
1 7 (70.00%) Tenable
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk