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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 438 264
Rank change year-on-year +51 -174 +289
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 357 560 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.54% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.64% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 275 420 448
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £43,477
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -1.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £104,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +15 323 £67,500 +3.85% 664
UK excluding London +67 191 £55,000 +4.76% 658
London +57 143 £75,000 -6.25% 108
Work from Home +52 102 £60,250 -1.31% 369
North of England +31 66 £55,000 +5.60% 157
South East +66 65 £55,000 -8.33% 206
Yorkshire +65 35 £45,000 -20.35% 61
North West -16 30 £75,000 +44.00% 76
South West +75 18 £53,365 -14.62% 77
Midlands +62 16 £50,000 +25.00% 96
Scotland +108 15 £55,000 +4.76% 41
East of England +26 13 £42,085 -41.95% 90
West Midlands +42 11 £53,094 +41.58% 51
East Midlands +38 5 £50,000 -4.76% 38
North East +46 1 £29,000 -18.88% 21
Wales +33 1 £55,000 -15.38% 16
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 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.84%) CMS
3 3 (0.84%) WordPress
4 2 (0.56%) Confluence
4 2 (0.56%) Drupal
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (32.77%) Azure
2 63 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (10.08%) AWS
4 28 (7.84%) PaaS
5 24 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (6.44%) GCP
7 22 (6.16%) Entra ID
8 20 (5.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 15 (4.20%) SaaS
10 11 (3.08%) Google Workspace
11 9 (2.52%) IaaS
12 7 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.12%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.12%) Serverless
14 3 (0.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 3 (0.84%) Azure AKS
14 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.84%) Slack
14 3 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 106 (29.69%) Firewall
2 66 (18.49%) Network Security
3 23 (6.44%) Intrusion Detection
4 22 (6.16%) DNS
4 22 (6.16%) VPN
5 13 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.36%) SMTP
6 12 (3.36%) Wireless
7 11 (3.08%) HTTP
8 10 (2.80%) VLAN
9 9 (2.52%) Cisco IOS
9 9 (2.52%) SSL
10 7 (1.96%) BGP
10 7 (1.96%) LAN
10 7 (1.96%) OSPF
10 7 (1.96%) Spanning Tree
10 7 (1.96%) Wireshark
11 6 (1.68%) WAN
12 5 (1.40%) DHCP
12 5 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.40%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.12%) Power BI
3 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.56%) MySQL
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.24%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.84%) JIRA
3 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.56%) Git
4 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.28%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.28%) Postman
4 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
General
1 88 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 76 (21.29%) Finance
3 40 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.00%) Legal
5 23 (6.44%) Law
6 22 (6.16%) Retail
7 19 (5.32%) Banking
8 12 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.96%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (1.40%) Front Office
11 5 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.40%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.12%) Local Government
12 4 (1.12%) Military
13 3 (0.84%) Advertising
14 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (19.61%) Security Engineer
2 67 (18.77%) Analyst
3 51 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 42 (11.76%) Lead
5 29 (8.12%) Senior
6 26 (7.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 24 (6.72%) Vulnerability Manager
8 22 (6.16%) Consultant
9 21 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (5.60%) Architect
10 20 (5.60%) Security Manager
11 19 (5.32%) Security Specialist
12 16 (4.48%) Security Architect
13 15 (4.20%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 15 (4.20%) Information Analyst
13 15 (4.20%) Information Security Analyst
14 14 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 14 (3.92%) IT Engineer
14 14 (3.92%) Security Consultant
15 13 (3.64%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.32%) YAML
2 3 (0.84%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.56%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (0.56%) CSS
3 2 (0.56%) HTML
3 2 (0.56%) HTML5
3 2 (0.56%) jQuery
3 2 (0.56%) Leaflet
3 2 (0.56%) React
3 2 (0.56%) Vue
4 1 (0.28%) JWT
4 1 (0.28%) LDAP
4 1 (0.28%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.28%) OAuth
4 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.28%) REST
4 1 (0.28%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 111 (31.09%) Security Posture
2 91 (25.49%) Management Information System
3 31 (8.68%) Cyber Threat
4 20 (5.60%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 17 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.92%) Social Media
6 14 (3.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 9 (2.52%) Cyberattack
8 8 (2.24%) Cloud Security Posture
8 8 (2.24%) Cyber Security Posture
9 7 (1.96%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 7 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.96%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.68%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.40%) iPhone
11 5 (1.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 86 (24.09%) Windows
2 33 (9.24%) Linux
3 18 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.92%) Windows Vista
5 10 (2.80%) Mac OS
6 9 (2.52%) Android
7 5 (1.40%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.56%) VMS
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (63.31%) Cybersecurity
2 162 (45.38%) Incident Response
3 140 (39.22%) Information Security
4 120 (33.61%) SIEM
5 89 (24.93%) Risk Management
6 87 (24.37%) Security Operations
7 76 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (17.93%) Data Protection
10 62 (17.37%) Penetration Testing
11 60 (16.81%) Cloud Security
12 51 (14.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 50 (14.01%) Computer Science
13 50 (14.01%) Incident Management
14 48 (13.45%) DevSecOps
15 47 (13.17%) Data Loss Prevention
16 46 (12.89%) DevOps
16 46 (12.89%) Security Architecture
17 45 (12.61%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 43 (12.04%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 66 (18.49%) PowerShell
2 38 (10.64%) Python
3 17 (4.76%) Bash
4 4 (1.12%) SQL
5 3 (0.84%) Perl
6 2 (0.56%) Bicep
6 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.56%) PHP
7 1 (0.28%) Go
7 1 (0.28%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 104 (29.13%) Degree
2 66 (18.49%) CISSP
3 55 (15.41%) CISM
4 46 (12.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (11.20%) Master's Degree
6 34 (9.52%) CEH
7 26 (7.28%) CRISC
8 25 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (6.16%) CISA
10 21 (5.88%) Security Cleared
11 17 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (4.48%) GCIH
13 15 (4.20%) DBS Check
14 14 (3.92%) SC Cleared
15 11 (3.08%) GCIA
15 11 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (2.80%) AWS Certification
17 9 (2.52%) Azure Certification
17 9 (2.52%) GCFA
17 9 (2.52%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (37.25%) NIST
2 119 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 82 (22.97%) GDPR
4 29 (8.12%) PCI DSS
5 27 (7.56%) NCSC
6 24 (6.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (4.76%) GRC
8 15 (4.20%) Accessibility
9 14 (3.92%) COBIT
9 14 (3.92%) SOC 2
10 9 (2.52%) NIST 800
11 8 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.96%) SOC 1
13 6 (1.68%) HIPAA
13 6 (1.68%) SLA
14 5 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.56%) JSP 440
System Software
1 29 (8.12%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.16%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.24%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.12%) Docker
5 4 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.12%) vSphere
6 3 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.56%) Firmware
7 2 (0.56%) NFS
8 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (8.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (4.20%) Terraform
3 12 (3.36%) Nessus
3 12 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (2.80%) CASB
4 10 (2.80%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (2.24%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.24%) RSA Archer
6 6 (1.68%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.40%) Ansible
7 5 (1.40%) SCCM
8 3 (0.84%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.84%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.56%) Istio
9 2 (0.56%) linkerd
10 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.28%) cPanel
10 1 (0.28%) Opsview
Vendors
1 139 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.92%) Cisco
3 35 (9.80%) Tenable
4 27 (7.56%) Qualys
5 25 (7.00%) VMware
6 24 (6.72%) Google
7 12 (3.36%) Juniper
8 10 (2.80%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (2.80%) Meraki
9 9 (2.52%) Splunk
10 6 (1.68%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.40%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.40%) Tanium
11 5 (1.40%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.12%) Extreme Networks
12 4 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.12%) Okta
12 4 (1.12%) SAP
13 3 (0.84%) Citrix
13 3 (0.84%) Dell