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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 263 463
Rank change year-on-year -103 +200 +38
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 488 674 828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.27% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.35% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 354 361 518
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £92,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £91,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

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 61,487 49,863 117,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.65% 94.11% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28,400 36,022 72,003
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,680 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,714 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -1.87% +7.00%

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 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 2024. 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 -104 441 £70,000 +8.61% 140
UK excluding London -153 285 £60,000 +4.35% 76
London -12 188 £77,500 +12.73% 71
Work from Home -52 172 £61,250 -5.77% 96
North of England -22 106 £52,500 -7.08% 30
South East -103 75 £76,500 +27.50% 15
Yorkshire +30 52 £50,000 -4.76% 7
North West -47 49 £57,500 -4.17% 20
Scotland -10 36 £100,000 +100.00% 9
South West -26 27 £90,750 +91.05% 7
Midlands -86 27 £60,000 -7.69% 7
West Midlands -44 26 £60,000 +14.29% 5
East of England -71 13 £46,250 -28.85% 5
North East -30 5 £45,000 -12.62% 3
Northern Ireland +8 1 £60,000 +60.00% 1
Wales -2 1 - - 2
East Midlands -65 1 £42,500 -34.62% 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 8 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.23%) Apache
3 5 (1.02%) CMS
3 5 (1.02%) Drupal
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.41%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.25%) Ripple
2 5 (1.02%) Shopify
3 2 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 163 (33.40%) Azure
2 117 (23.98%) AWS
3 98 (20.08%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (8.81%) GCP
5 28 (5.74%) SaaS
6 26 (5.33%) Entra ID
7 21 (4.30%) IaaS
7 21 (4.30%) PaaS
8 20 (4.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 13 (2.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 12 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (1.84%) Mimecast
12 8 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.43%) Azure AKS
13 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (1.02%) Google Analytics
14 5 (1.02%) Google Tag Manager
15 4 (0.82%) Nutanix
15 4 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 156 (31.97%) Firewall
2 88 (18.03%) Network Security
3 38 (7.79%) VPN
4 25 (5.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 23 (4.71%) DNS
5 23 (4.71%) TCP/IP
6 15 (3.07%) DMZ
7 11 (2.25%) WAN
8 10 (2.05%) LAN
9 9 (1.84%) DHCP
9 9 (1.84%) Internet
10 8 (1.64%) NGFW
10 8 (1.64%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.02%) VLAN
12 4 (0.82%) DAB
12 4 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.82%) Wireless
13 3 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
13 3 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.61%) MySQL
3 2 (0.41%) Big Data
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.20%) Power BI
4 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (6.35%) Git
2 12 (2.46%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.25%) Artifactory
4 9 (1.84%) Burp Suite
5 5 (1.02%) JIRA
6 3 (0.61%) MLflow
6 3 (0.61%) Snyk
6 3 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.41%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) JUnit
8 1 (0.20%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 119 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 109 (22.34%) Finance
3 62 (12.70%) Law
4 48 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.92%) Legal
6 19 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (3.69%) Banking
8 16 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.05%) Retail
11 10 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.64%) Public Sector
13 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.02%) Marketing
14 5 (1.02%) Military
15 3 (0.61%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.41%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 108 (22.13%) Analyst
2 97 (19.88%) Security Engineer
3 93 (19.06%) Senior
4 71 (14.55%) Security Analyst
5 61 (12.50%) Lead
6 57 (11.68%) Consultant
7 48 (9.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 44 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 38 (7.79%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 38 (7.79%) Security Consultant
10 29 (5.94%) Senior Security Engineer
11 28 (5.74%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 28 (5.74%) Security Manager
12 27 (5.53%) Senior Analyst
13 25 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (4.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 22 (4.51%) Architect
16 20 (4.10%) IT Consultant
16 20 (4.10%) Security Architect
17 18 (3.69%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (2.66%) Azure Blueprints
3 7 (1.43%) Web Services
4 6 (1.23%) React
5 5 (1.02%) CSS
5 5 (1.02%) HTML
5 5 (1.02%) HTML5
5 5 (1.02%) jQuery
5 5 (1.02%) Vue
6 3 (0.61%) Metaflow
6 3 (0.61%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.61%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.61%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.61%) YAML
7 2 (0.41%) EDI
7 2 (0.41%) Kafka
7 2 (0.41%) LAMP
7 2 (0.41%) Middleware
7 2 (0.41%) Node.js
7 2 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (21.93%) Management Information System
1 107 (21.93%) Security Posture
2 43 (8.81%) Cyber Threat
3 30 (6.15%) Cloud Security Posture
4 29 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (5.53%) Public Cloud
6 25 (5.12%) Cloud Native
7 24 (4.92%) Onboarding
8 20 (4.10%) Data Centre
9 18 (3.69%) Cyberattack
10 16 (3.28%) Product Ownership
11 13 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
11 13 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 11 (2.25%) Blockchain
14 10 (2.05%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (2.05%) Social Media
14 10 (2.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 8 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 8 (1.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 107 (21.93%) Windows
2 49 (10.04%) Linux
3 37 (7.58%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.05%) Windows Vista
5 7 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.02%) VMS
8 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.61%) Unix
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.41%) AIX
10 2 (0.41%) CentOS
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.20%) Android
11 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (53.28%) Cybersecurity
2 190 (38.93%) Information Security
3 164 (33.61%) Security Operations
4 148 (30.33%) Incident Response
4 148 (30.33%) SIEM
5 123 (25.20%) Cloud Security
6 108 (22.13%) Risk Management
7 91 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (16.39%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
9 78 (15.98%) DevOps
10 77 (15.78%) Penetration Testing
11 70 (14.34%) Security Monitoring
12 69 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
13 61 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
13 61 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 60 (12.30%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 58 (11.89%) Identity Access Management
16 57 (11.68%) ITIL
16 57 (11.68%) Roadmaps
17 56 (11.48%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.27%) Python
2 43 (8.81%) PowerShell
3 28 (5.74%) Bash
4 9 (1.84%) PHP
5 7 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.23%) SQL
7 5 (1.02%) Java
8 4 (0.82%) Go
8 4 (0.82%) Perl
9 3 (0.61%) C
9 3 (0.61%) C#
9 3 (0.61%) C++
10 2 (0.41%) AWK
10 2 (0.41%) Korn
10 2 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 132 (27.05%) CISSP
2 88 (18.03%) CISM
2 88 (18.03%) Degree
3 62 (12.70%) CISA
4 52 (10.66%) CEH
5 49 (10.04%) Security Cleared
6 45 (9.22%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (7.38%) AWS Certification
9 34 (6.97%) Azure Certification
10 30 (6.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 30 (6.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 24 (4.92%) GIAC
12 23 (4.71%) SC Cleared
13 22 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (4.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 19 (3.89%) CCNP
15 19 (3.89%) CRISC
15 19 (3.89%) GCIA
16 18 (3.69%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (24.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 112 (22.95%) NIST
3 65 (13.32%) GDPR
4 49 (10.04%) PCI DSS
5 46 (9.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (3.89%) SOC 2
8 17 (3.48%) QA
9 16 (3.28%) NCSC
10 15 (3.07%) SLA
11 14 (2.87%) COBIT
11 14 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (2.46%) Accessibility
12 12 (2.46%) ISO 14001
12 12 (2.46%) ISO 9001
13 9 (1.84%) GRC
14 8 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (1.64%) JSP 440
15 6 (1.23%) IASME
16 4 (0.82%) NIST 800
System Software
1 66 (13.52%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.87%) Docker
4 12 (2.46%) vSphere
5 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.41%) Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) KVM
7 2 (0.41%) Postfix
7 2 (0.41%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 36 (7.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (5.33%) CASB
2 26 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.92%) Terraform
4 23 (4.71%) Ansible
5 21 (4.30%) CSIRT
6 16 (3.28%) Nessus
7 9 (1.84%) Nagios
8 6 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.02%) SCCM
10 4 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.82%) IBM BigFix
10 4 (0.82%) Istio
10 4 (0.82%) linkerd
10 4 (0.82%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.41%) Grafana
11 2 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.41%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 163 (33.40%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.40%) VMware
3 29 (5.94%) Google
4 22 (4.51%) Palo Alto
5 18 (3.69%) Splunk
6 17 (3.48%) Barracuda Networks
7 16 (3.28%) Cisco
7 16 (3.28%) Nimble Storage
8 13 (2.66%) SolarWinds
8 13 (2.66%) Tripwire
9 12 (2.46%) Tanium
10 11 (2.25%) Qualys
10 11 (2.25%) Zscaler
11 10 (2.05%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.64%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.23%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.23%) Darktrace
14 6 (1.23%) LogRhythm
15 5 (1.02%) McAfee