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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 435 295
Rank change year-on-year +91 -140 +225
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 401 557 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.57% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.66% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 325 416 477
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,424 £44,071
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,900 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,375 £97,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.60% -0.79% -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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +49 359 £67,500 +8.00% 412
UK excluding London +100 209 £55,000 +5.60% 202
London +91 166 £81,250 +1.56% 244
Work from Home +135 144 £60,000 -4.00% 222
North of England +57 69 £55,000 +5.60% 60
South East +84 66 £55,000 -12.00% 48
North West +13 38 £75,000 +44.00% 44
Yorkshire +70 28 £45,000 -20.35% 15
Midlands +61 21 £53,688 +43.17% 23
Scotland +129 20 £71,750 +33.49% 21
West Midlands +65 18 £60,000 +60.00% 17
South West +76 16 £55,000 +4.76% 22
East of England +45 15 £42,085 -41.95% 20
North East +52 3 £45,000 +12.50% 1
East Midlands +49 3 £49,000 +6.52% 6
Wales +27 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 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.25%) CMS
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.00%) Drupal
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.75%) WordPress
5 2 (0.50%) Apache
5 2 (0.50%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Shopify
2 2 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (35.91%) Azure
2 68 (16.96%) AWS
3 54 (13.47%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (9.73%) GCP
5 27 (6.73%) Azure Sentinel
6 23 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (5.49%) PaaS
8 21 (5.24%) SaaS
9 15 (3.74%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.00%) Azure AKS
11 7 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.75%) IaaS
12 5 (1.25%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.25%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (1.00%) Google Analytics
13 4 (1.00%) Google Tag Manager
13 4 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 139 (34.66%) Firewall
2 85 (21.20%) Network Security
3 31 (7.73%) Intrusion Detection
4 25 (6.23%) DNS
4 25 (6.23%) VPN
5 21 (5.24%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.24%) HTTP
7 11 (2.74%) SMTP
8 10 (2.49%) LAN
9 9 (2.24%) WAN
9 9 (2.24%) Wireless
10 7 (1.75%) BGP
10 7 (1.75%) OSPF
10 7 (1.75%) Spanning Tree
10 7 (1.75%) SSL
10 7 (1.75%) Wireshark
11 6 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (1.50%) VLAN
12 5 (1.25%) SAN
12 5 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.25%) Power BI
1 5 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.00%) MySQL
3 3 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (2.74%) Git
2 8 (2.00%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.00%) JIRA
4 3 (0.75%) MLflow
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.25%) GitLab
5 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.25%) Postman
5 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 97 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.20%) Finance
3 54 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.48%) Law
5 26 (6.48%) Retail
6 25 (6.23%) Legal
7 15 (3.74%) Banking
8 14 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.24%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.75%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (1.25%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.00%) Front Office
13 4 (1.00%) Local Government
14 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.75%) Marketing
14 3 (0.75%) Military
14 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (23.44%) Security Engineer
2 73 (18.20%) Analyst
3 55 (13.72%) Security Analyst
4 52 (12.97%) Lead
5 51 (12.72%) Senior
6 39 (9.73%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 33 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 29 (7.23%) Security Manager
9 27 (6.73%) Architect
10 26 (6.48%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 24 (5.99%) Vulnerability Manager
12 23 (5.74%) Security Architect
13 22 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 19 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (3.99%) Senior Security Engineer
17 15 (3.74%) Consultant
18 14 (3.49%) IT Engineer
19 12 (2.99%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
19 12 (2.99%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.49%) YAML
2 12 (2.99%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (1.00%) CSS
3 4 (1.00%) HTML
3 4 (1.00%) HTML5
3 4 (1.00%) jQuery
3 4 (1.00%) React
3 4 (1.00%) Vue
4 3 (0.75%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.75%) Metaflow
4 3 (0.75%) PyTorch
4 3 (0.75%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.75%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.50%) EDI
5 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.50%) LAMP
5 2 (0.50%) Leaflet
5 2 (0.50%) Loki
5 2 (0.50%) Web Services
5 2 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (35.66%) Security Posture
2 103 (25.69%) Management Information System
3 40 (9.98%) Cyber Threat
4 25 (6.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 22 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (5.24%) Social Media
6 21 (5.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 19 (4.74%) Data Centre
8 15 (3.74%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.99%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.49%) Cyber Security Posture
10 10 (2.49%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (2.24%) Cyberattack
12 7 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 7 (1.75%) iPhone
12 7 (1.75%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.50%) Operational Technology
13 6 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.50%) Replication
14 5 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 88 (21.95%) Windows
2 38 (9.48%) Linux
3 26 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.24%) Windows Vista
5 8 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.50%) Android
6 6 (1.50%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.25%) VMS
8 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.50%) AIX
9 2 (0.50%) CentOS
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.50%) Unix
10 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (59.85%) Cybersecurity
2 175 (43.64%) Incident Response
3 149 (37.16%) Information Security
4 131 (32.67%) SIEM
5 116 (28.93%) Security Operations
6 107 (26.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 103 (25.69%) Cloud Security
8 101 (25.19%) Risk Management
9 81 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (18.70%) Penetration Testing
11 72 (17.96%) DevOps
12 65 (16.21%) Computer Science
13 63 (15.71%) Data Protection
13 63 (15.71%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
14 58 (14.46%) DevSecOps
15 57 (14.21%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 52 (12.97%) Identity Access Management
17 50 (12.47%) Data Loss Prevention
17 50 (12.47%) Security Monitoring
17 50 (12.47%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 69 (17.21%) PowerShell
2 54 (13.47%) Python
3 26 (6.48%) Bash
4 6 (1.50%) Perl
4 6 (1.50%) PHP
5 5 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.00%) SQL
7 2 (0.50%) AWK
7 2 (0.50%) C
7 2 (0.50%) C++
7 2 (0.50%) Go
7 2 (0.50%) Korn
8 1 (0.25%) Bicep
8 1 (0.25%) Java
8 1 (0.25%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 110 (27.43%) Degree
2 102 (25.44%) CISSP
3 76 (18.95%) CISM
4 61 (15.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (10.47%) CEH
6 41 (10.22%) CISA
7 39 (9.73%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (9.73%) Master's Degree
8 31 (7.73%) AWS Certification
9 27 (6.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 26 (6.48%) Security Cleared
11 21 (5.24%) DBS Check
12 20 (4.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 19 (4.74%) CRISC
14 17 (4.24%) SC Cleared
15 16 (3.99%) Azure Certification
15 16 (3.99%) GCIH
16 15 (3.74%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (3.49%) GCIA
18 13 (3.24%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (37.16%) NIST
2 131 (32.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 92 (22.94%) GDPR
4 41 (10.22%) PCI DSS
5 26 (6.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (6.23%) NCSC
7 18 (4.49%) Accessibility
8 17 (4.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (3.49%) SOC 2
10 13 (3.24%) COBIT
10 13 (3.24%) GRC
11 9 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (2.24%) SLA
12 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (1.25%) HIPAA
13 5 (1.25%) JSP 440
14 4 (1.00%) NIST 800
14 4 (1.00%) QA
15 2 (0.50%) ISO 14001
15 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 32 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 26 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.24%) Docker
5 6 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.00%) vSphere
7 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.50%) KVM
8 2 (0.50%) Postfix
8 2 (0.50%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.25%) Firmware
9 1 (0.25%) NFS
9 1 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 30 (7.48%) Terraform
2 24 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.24%) CASB
3 21 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (4.24%) Nessus
5 9 (2.24%) Ansible
6 8 (2.00%) FortiGate
7 7 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.25%) CSIRT
8 5 (1.25%) Istio
8 5 (1.25%) linkerd
9 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.00%) Nagios
9 4 (1.00%) SCCM
10 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.75%) Puppet
11 2 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.50%) Grafana
12 1 (0.25%) QRadar
12 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 142 (35.41%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.72%) Tenable
3 36 (8.98%) Cisco
4 32 (7.98%) Google
4 32 (7.98%) Qualys
5 30 (7.48%) VMware
6 13 (3.24%) Splunk
7 9 (2.24%) Juniper
8 8 (2.00%) Meraki
9 7 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.50%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.50%) SAP
11 5 (1.25%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.25%) LogRhythm
11 5 (1.25%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.25%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.00%) Dell
12 4 (1.00%) Extreme Networks
12 4 (1.00%) Tanium
12 4 (1.00%) Zscaler