Vulnerability Manager Jobs

Vulnerability Manager
UK

The median Vulnerability Manager salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 854 953
Rank change year-on-year +166 +99 +262
Permanent jobs requiring a Vulnerability Manager 24 53 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.053% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.056% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 19 51 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,084 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -26.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £105,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,084 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -5.30% +1.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,981 94,642 91,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.70% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,187 67,606 57,639
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%

Vulnerability Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Vulnerability Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Manager in the UK

Vulnerability Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Manager.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Manager in the UK

Vulnerability Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Manager over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Manager in the UK

Vulnerability Manager
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +129 24 £55,000 -8.33% 5
UK excluding London +147 23 £55,000 +5.60% 1
South East +109 23 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Work from Home +132 19 £55,000 -8.33% 3
London +110 1 £72,500 -27.50% 5

Vulnerability Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Vulnerability Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Vulnerability Manager in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
3 18 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (70.83%) Tenable
4 17 (70.83%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (70.83%) Incident Response
4 17 (70.83%) Qualys
4 17 (70.83%) Data Centre
5 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (25.00%) CISSP
5 6 (25.00%) Security Posture
6 5 (20.83%) Cyber Security Posture
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 5 (20.83%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (20.83%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (20.83%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (20.83%) Creative Thinking
6 5 (20.83%) CASB
6 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
6 5 (20.83%) Finance
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.83%) Agile
6 5 (20.83%) Coaching
6 5 (20.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
7 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat

Vulnerability Manager Skill Set
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:

General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) Data Centre
2 6 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security Posture
3 5 (20.83%) Cyber Security Posture
3 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 24 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 18 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (70.83%) Incident Response
4 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
5 5 (20.83%) Coaching
5 5 (20.83%) Creative Thinking
5 5 (20.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 5 (20.83%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (20.83%) Security Monitoring
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 5 (20.83%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (4.17%) Patch Management
6 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.17%) Remediation Plan
6 1 (4.17%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) CASB
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (70.83%) Qualys
2 17 (70.83%) Tenable