Vulnerability Management Job Trends

Vulnerability Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 321 337
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 +66
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 417 464 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.87% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.96% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 254 351 360
10th Percentile £41,475 £42,500 £39,975
25th Percentile £51,063 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -1.74%

All Process & 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 49,261 48,421 52,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.81% 90.77% 89.63%
Number of salaries quoted 29,011 23,517 40,505
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Vulnerability Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

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 17 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 +39 387 £80,000 +10.34% 100
UK excluding London +14 227 £55,000 -8.33% 89
Work from Home +96 201 £87,500 +45.83% 63
London +39 174 £90,000 +10.77% 28
North of England -19 61 £49,250 -4.37% 27
South East +17 50 £67,500 -16.92% 29
Midlands +38 45 £53,500 -10.83% 10
South West +20 33 £50,000 -28.57% 11
Yorkshire -36 29 £45,000 -10.00% 6
East Midlands +15 24 £25,750 -39.41% 3
North West +2 23 £50,000 -13.04% 19
West Midlands +27 21 £75,000 +25.00% 7
East of England +25 19 £43,000 -4.44% 8
Scotland -16 11 £71,710 -28.29% 5
North East +10 9 £105,000 +133.33% 2
Wales +7 4 - - 2
Channel Islands - 4 - -

Vulnerability Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.84%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 128 (30.70%) Azure
2 62 (14.87%) AWS
3 55 (13.19%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (10.79%) Entra ID
5 25 (6.00%) Nutanix
6 23 (5.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 19 (4.56%) GCP
7 19 (4.56%) PaaS
8 13 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.88%) Slack
10 11 (2.64%) SaaS
11 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.44%) IaaS
13 5 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.96%) GitHub
14 4 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.96%) Power Platform
15 3 (0.72%) Cloudflare
15 3 (0.72%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 53 (12.71%) Firewall
2 46 (11.03%) Network Security
3 22 (5.28%) VPN
4 21 (5.04%) WAN
5 14 (3.36%) CHAP
6 12 (2.88%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.40%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (2.40%) Wireshark
8 9 (2.16%) LAN
9 8 (1.92%) DNS
10 7 (1.68%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.20%) DHCP
13 3 (0.72%) SSL
13 3 (0.72%) WLAN
14 2 (0.48%) BGP
14 2 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
14 2 (0.48%) InfiniBand
14 2 (0.48%) Internet
14 2 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.24%) Power BI
2 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (4.32%) JIRA
2 4 (0.96%) TeamCity
3 3 (0.72%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.72%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.24%) Git
4 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
General
1 115 (27.58%) Finance
2 109 (26.14%) Social Skills
3 52 (12.47%) Banking
4 41 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.19%) Law
6 27 (6.47%) Retail
7 25 (6.00%) Financial Institution
8 24 (5.76%) Legal
9 23 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (5.28%) Public Sector
11 20 (4.80%) Manufacturing
12 14 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (3.36%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.64%) Electronics
13 11 (2.64%) Marketing
14 9 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.92%) Back Office
16 4 (0.96%) Games
17 3 (0.72%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 111 (26.62%) Lead
2 53 (12.71%) Analyst
2 53 (12.71%) Security Engineer
3 51 (12.23%) Senior
4 39 (9.35%) Security Analyst
5 21 (5.04%) Head of Security
5 21 (5.04%) Security Manager
6 16 (3.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 16 (3.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (3.60%) Consultant
8 14 (3.36%) Auditor
8 14 (3.36%) Internal Auditor
8 14 (3.36%) Security Auditor
8 14 (3.36%) Security Specialist
8 14 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (3.36%) Technical Engineer
9 13 (3.12%) IT Manager
9 13 (3.12%) Security Consultant
10 12 (2.88%) Information Analyst
10 12 (2.88%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.60%) YAML
2 4 (0.96%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.48%) JSON
3 2 (0.48%) Kafka
3 2 (0.48%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.48%) REST
3 2 (0.48%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.24%) CSS
4 1 (0.24%) EDI
4 1 (0.24%) HTML
4 1 (0.24%) JWT
4 1 (0.24%) OAuth
4 1 (0.24%) SAML
4 1 (0.24%) SOAP
4 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (25.42%) Cyber Threat
2 88 (21.10%) Security Posture
3 83 (19.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 80 (19.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 75 (17.99%) Operational Technology
6 45 (10.79%) Management Information System
7 31 (7.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (4.56%) Cyber Defence
9 16 (3.84%) Onboarding
10 14 (3.36%) Cloud Native
11 13 (3.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
13 10 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (2.16%) Blockchain
14 9 (2.16%) Cyberattack
15 7 (1.68%) Cyber Security Posture
16 6 (1.44%) Data Centre
17 5 (1.20%) YubiKey
18 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
18 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (13.67%) Windows
2 28 (6.71%) Linux
3 23 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.40%) Android
5 6 (1.44%) Unix
6 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (42.45%) Cybersecurity
2 144 (34.53%) Security Operations
3 133 (31.89%) Incident Response
4 130 (31.18%) Threat Intelligence
5 128 (30.70%) Risk Management
6 121 (29.02%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 116 (27.82%) Mentoring
8 110 (26.38%) ITIL
9 106 (25.42%) Roadmaps
10 104 (24.94%) Coaching
11 103 (24.70%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
12 90 (21.58%) Information Security
13 89 (21.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 87 (20.86%) SIEM
15 85 (20.38%) Business Strategy
15 85 (20.38%) Cyber Intelligence
16 81 (19.42%) Technology Roadmap
17 68 (16.31%) Change Advisory Board
17 68 (16.31%) SABSA
18 63 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.55%) Python
2 68 (16.31%) PowerShell
3 33 (7.91%) Bash
4 18 (4.32%) Go
5 10 (2.40%) SQL
6 6 (1.44%) Bicep
7 4 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.72%) C
8 3 (0.72%) Elixir
8 3 (0.72%) Erlang
9 2 (0.48%) C++
9 2 (0.48%) Java
9 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.48%) RPG
10 1 (0.24%) RPG IV
10 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (22.06%) CISSP
2 63 (15.11%) Degree
3 53 (12.71%) CISM
4 47 (11.27%) Security Cleared
5 37 (8.87%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (7.43%) CISA
7 28 (6.71%) CEH
8 23 (5.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 23 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (5.04%) CCNP
9 21 (5.04%) Master's Degree
9 21 (5.04%) SC Cleared
10 20 (4.80%) GCIH
10 20 (4.80%) SANS
11 18 (4.32%) DV Cleared
12 17 (4.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 17 (4.08%) CGEIT
13 16 (3.84%) CCNA
14 15 (3.60%) FFIEC
14 15 (3.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (57.55%) NIST
2 225 (53.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (17.99%) GDPR
4 70 (16.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 58 (13.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 38 (9.11%) PCI DSS
7 31 (7.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 27 (6.47%) GRC
8 27 (6.47%) NCSC
9 17 (4.08%) COBIT
10 12 (2.88%) Accessibility
11 11 (2.64%) ISO 22301
12 10 (2.40%) SOC 2
13 8 (1.92%) NIST 800
13 8 (1.92%) SLA
14 7 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.72%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.48%) Basel III
16 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 18 (4.32%) Firmware
2 18 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
2 18 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.44%) Docker
6 2 (0.48%) GPFS
6 2 (0.48%) Lustre
6 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (9.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (6.95%) Terraform
3 19 (4.56%) Ansible
4 15 (3.60%) SCCM
5 14 (3.36%) Kubernetes
6 11 (2.64%) CASB
7 10 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.68%) Nessus
9 4 (0.96%) Cilium
9 4 (0.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 4 (0.96%) Nmap
9 4 (0.96%) QRadar
9 4 (0.96%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.72%) Grafana
10 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.48%) SELinux
11 2 (0.48%) Suricata
11 2 (0.48%) WSUS
12 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (23.02%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.39%) VMware
3 25 (6.00%) Cisco
3 25 (6.00%) Tenable
4 24 (5.76%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.32%) Splunk
6 15 (3.60%) Commvault
7 14 (3.36%) SAP
8 12 (2.88%) Fortinet
9 11 (2.64%) Juniper
10 9 (2.16%) Qualys
11 8 (1.92%) Rapid7
12 6 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.44%) Google
12 6 (1.44%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.72%) Citrix
13 3 (0.72%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.72%) Okta
13 3 (0.72%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.72%) Trend Micro