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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 399 306
Rank change year-on-year +59 -93 +225
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 416 586 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.63% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.73% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 337 406 513
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £44,132
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,084 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -5.30% -2.22%

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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

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 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Top 18 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 3 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 +57 372 £66,250 +6.00% 320
UK excluding London +80 221 £55,000 +5.60% 143
London +57 170 £80,000 +6.67% 203
Work from Home +130 152 £60,000 -4.00% 171
North of England +66 78 £55,000 +5.60% 23
South East +92 67 £55,000 -15.38% 46
North West +19 47 £65,000 +24.80% 12
Yorkshire +74 28 £45,000 -20.35% 10
Scotland +108 23 £74,870 +15.18% 21
Midlands +53 23 £60,000 +60.00% 26
West Midlands +29 19 £60,000 +60.00% 17
South West +62 17 £55,000 +7.95% 16
East of England +39 10 £45,000 -32.08% 9
East Midlands +45 4 £45,750 -0.54% 9
North East +43 3 £45,000 +9.09% 1
Northern Ireland +35 1 £60,000 - 5
Wales +20 1 £55,000 -15.38%
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

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 10 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.44%) CMS
2 6 (1.44%) Drupal
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.72%) WordPress
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (35.10%) Azure
2 74 (17.79%) AWS
3 50 (12.02%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (9.62%) GCP
5 26 (6.25%) PaaS
6 24 (5.77%) SaaS
7 23 (5.53%) Azure Sentinel
8 19 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.37%) Entra ID
10 11 (2.64%) IaaS
11 8 (1.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.68%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.44%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.44%) Google Tag Manager
14 4 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.96%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 145 (34.86%) Firewall
2 90 (21.63%) Network Security
3 34 (8.17%) Intrusion Detection
4 24 (5.77%) DNS
5 23 (5.53%) TCP/IP
6 22 (5.29%) VPN
7 13 (3.13%) HTTP
8 11 (2.64%) LAN
8 11 (2.64%) SMTP
8 11 (2.64%) WAN
9 7 (1.68%) Wireless
9 7 (1.68%) Wireshark
10 6 (1.44%) BGP
10 6 (1.44%) OSPF
10 6 (1.44%) SAN
10 6 (1.44%) Spanning Tree
10 6 (1.44%) VLAN
10 6 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.96%) MySQL
2 4 (0.96%) Power BI
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (3.85%) Git
2 8 (1.92%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.96%) JIRA
4 3 (0.72%) MLflow
5 2 (0.48%) Snyk
6 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.24%) GitLab
6 1 (0.24%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 99 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 84 (20.19%) Finance
3 61 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.62%) Law
5 29 (6.97%) Legal
6 22 (5.29%) Retail
7 14 (3.37%) Banking
8 13 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.44%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (1.20%) Marketing
13 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.48%) Military
15 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 97 (23.32%) Security Engineer
2 78 (18.75%) Analyst
3 61 (14.66%) Senior
4 60 (14.42%) Security Analyst
5 52 (12.50%) Lead
6 43 (10.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 38 (9.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (7.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 30 (7.21%) Security Manager
10 27 (6.49%) Architect
11 23 (5.53%) Security Architect
11 23 (5.53%) Vulnerability Manager
12 21 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 18 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.37%) Senior Security Engineer
16 13 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
17 11 (2.64%) Consultant
17 11 (2.64%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 11 (2.64%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.13%) Azure Blueprints
1 13 (3.13%) YAML
2 7 (1.68%) React
3 6 (1.44%) CSS
3 6 (1.44%) HTML
3 6 (1.44%) HTML5
3 6 (1.44%) jQuery
3 6 (1.44%) Vue
4 4 (0.96%) Web Services
5 3 (0.72%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.72%) Metaflow
5 3 (0.72%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.72%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.72%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.48%) EDI
6 2 (0.48%) Leaflet
6 2 (0.48%) Loki
6 2 (0.48%) Middleware
6 2 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (34.13%) Security Posture
2 115 (27.64%) Management Information System
3 35 (8.41%) Cyber Threat
4 28 (6.73%) Cloud Security Posture
5 22 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (5.05%) Social Media
6 21 (5.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 20 (4.81%) Cloud Native
8 18 (4.33%) Data Centre
9 15 (3.61%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.88%) Cyberattack
11 9 (2.16%) iPhone
11 9 (2.16%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 7 (1.68%) Cyber Security Posture
13 7 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
14 6 (1.44%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.44%) Housing Association
14 6 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 93 (22.36%) Windows
2 37 (8.89%) Linux
3 32 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.05%) Windows Vista
5 8 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.20%) VMS
8 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.48%) AIX
9 2 (0.48%) Android
9 2 (0.48%) CentOS
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (59.13%) Cybersecurity
2 168 (40.38%) Incident Response
3 156 (37.50%) Information Security
4 131 (31.49%) SIEM
5 119 (28.61%) Security Operations
6 114 (27.40%) Cloud Security
7 113 (27.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 102 (24.52%) Risk Management
9 81 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
10 79 (18.99%) Penetration Testing
11 74 (17.79%) DevOps
12 65 (15.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 63 (15.14%) Computer Science
14 60 (14.42%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
15 58 (13.94%) Data Protection
15 58 (13.94%) Security Monitoring
16 53 (12.74%) DevSecOps
17 52 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
17 52 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 50 (12.02%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 50 (12.02%) Python
3 24 (5.77%) Bash
4 8 (1.92%) PHP
5 7 (1.68%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.68%) Perl
6 5 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.72%) C
7 3 (0.72%) C++
7 3 (0.72%) Go
7 3 (0.72%) SQL
8 2 (0.48%) AWK
8 2 (0.48%) Java
8 2 (0.48%) Korn
8 2 (0.48%) Ruby
9 1 (0.24%) C#
9 1 (0.24%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 109 (26.20%) Degree
2 107 (25.72%) CISSP
3 77 (18.51%) CISM
4 61 (14.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (10.10%) CISA
7 39 (9.38%) CEH
8 38 (9.13%) Master's Degree
9 34 (8.17%) AWS Certification
10 29 (6.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 29 (6.97%) Security Cleared
11 24 (5.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 22 (5.29%) Azure Certification
13 21 (5.05%) DBS Check
14 18 (4.33%) CRISC
15 16 (3.85%) GCIA
15 16 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (3.85%) SC Cleared
16 15 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (3.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (34.13%) NIST
2 131 (31.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 85 (20.43%) GDPR
4 50 (12.02%) PCI DSS
5 25 (6.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (5.77%) NCSC
7 22 (5.29%) Accessibility
8 19 (4.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (3.13%) COBIT
9 13 (3.13%) SOC 2
10 12 (2.88%) GRC
11 11 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (2.64%) SLA
12 10 (2.40%) QA
13 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (1.44%) ISO 14001
14 6 (1.44%) ISO 9001
14 6 (1.44%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.72%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (8.41%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.01%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.16%) Docker
5 7 (1.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.96%) vSphere
7 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.48%) KVM
8 2 (0.48%) Postfix
8 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
9 1 (0.24%) NFS
9 1 (0.24%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (7.45%) Terraform
2 23 (5.53%) CASB
2 23 (5.53%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (3.37%) Nessus
5 11 (2.64%) Ansible
6 6 (1.44%) CSIRT
7 5 (1.20%) Istio
7 5 (1.20%) linkerd
7 5 (1.20%) Nagios
7 5 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.96%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.96%) SCCM
9 2 (0.48%) Grafana
9 2 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.24%) cPanel
10 1 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.24%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 131 (31.49%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.10%) Tenable
3 33 (7.93%) Google
4 30 (7.21%) Cisco
5 29 (6.97%) VMware
6 26 (6.25%) Qualys
7 14 (3.37%) Splunk
8 8 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (1.68%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.68%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.44%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.44%) Juniper
10 6 (1.44%) Meraki
10 6 (1.44%) SAP
11 5 (1.20%) Dell
11 5 (1.20%) Extreme Networks
11 5 (1.20%) LogRhythm
11 5 (1.20%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.96%) SonicWALL
13 3 (0.72%) Veeam