Vulnerability Remediation Jobs

Vulnerability Remediation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Vulnerability Remediation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Remediation 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 634 631 685
Rank change year-on-year -3 +54 +284
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 75 292 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.34% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 49 186 181
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,987 £45,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £47,000 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,005 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -14.55% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Remediation 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 Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 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 +38 74 £60,250 +0.42% 342
UK excluding London +28 41 £55,000 +17.02% 354
London +75 33 £85,000 +13.33% 36
Work from Home +44 28 £68,184 +13.64% 265
North of England +10 17 £60,000 +20.00% 86
South East +67 15 - - 81
Yorkshire +54 9 £52,500 +20.00% 32
North West -26 8 £62,500 +8.70% 43
Midlands +75 6 £40,000 -13.51% 66
South West +107 3 £47,500 - 43
West Midlands +52 3 £40,000 -50.00% 36
East Midlands +41 3 £59,500 +48.75% 26

Vulnerability Remediation
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 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) Azure
2 20 (26.67%) AWS
3 19 (25.33%) PaaS
4 17 (22.67%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.33%) IaaS
6 4 (5.33%) Rubrik
6 4 (5.33%) SaaS
7 3 (4.00%) GCP
7 3 (4.00%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon Glacier
9 1 (1.33%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.33%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.67%) Firewall
1 14 (18.67%) Network Security
2 8 (10.67%) VPN
3 6 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (6.67%) DHCP
4 5 (6.67%) DNS
5 4 (5.33%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.33%) ADSL
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.33%) Fast Ethernet
6 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.33%) Vagrant
General
1 35 (46.67%) Finance
2 9 (12.00%) Banking
3 7 (9.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Legal
6 3 (4.00%) Law
6 3 (4.00%) Marketing
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Electronics
7 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (49.33%) Security Engineer
2 24 (32.00%) Lead
3 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Security Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Security Specialist
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Resilience Manager
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Information Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Information Security Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Network Security Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Network Specialist
9 2 (2.67%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) YAML
2 9 (12.00%) Middleware
3 7 (9.33%) GraphQL
3 7 (9.33%) REST
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (30.67%) Security Posture
2 8 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.33%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) PMI
6 1 (1.33%) Replication
6 1 (1.33%) Tandem
6 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.33%) Windows
2 17 (22.67%) Linux
3 16 (21.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.00%) VMS
6 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 32 (42.67%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (38.67%) DevOps
4 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
4 22 (29.33%) DevSecOps
5 20 (26.67%) Computer Science
6 19 (25.33%) Application Security
6 19 (25.33%) OWASP
6 19 (25.33%) SDLC
6 19 (25.33%) Security Testing
6 19 (25.33%) Test Automation
7 18 (24.00%) Agile
7 18 (24.00%) Threat Modelling
8 17 (22.67%) Backlog Management
8 17 (22.67%) Product Management
8 17 (22.67%) Product Strategy
9 16 (21.33%) Coaching
9 16 (21.33%) Mentoring
10 15 (20.00%) Cloud Security
10 15 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 43 (57.33%) PowerShell
2 21 (28.00%) Python
3 11 (14.67%) Bash
4 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.67%) Ruby
4 2 (2.67%) SQL
5 1 (1.33%) Groovy
5 1 (1.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) Degree
2 19 (25.33%) Master's Degree
3 17 (22.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (9.33%) CCNA
5 7 (9.33%) CCNP
6 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
7 5 (6.67%) CISSP
7 5 (6.67%) MCSA
7 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
8 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (2.67%) CCSP
9 2 (2.67%) CISM
9 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.67%) OSCP
10 1 (1.33%) CCSA
10 1 (1.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (38.67%) NIST
2 28 (37.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (22.67%) NCSC
4 9 (12.00%) SLA
5 8 (10.67%) GDPR
6 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.67%) GRC
7 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.33%) SOC 1
8 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (18.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 4 (5.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.67%) Firmware
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.33%) DFS Replication
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.33%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Ansible
2 8 (10.67%) Terraform
3 5 (6.67%) SCCM
4 4 (5.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.33%) SCOM
4 4 (5.33%) VxRail
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.67%) CASB
6 2 (2.67%) Istio
6 2 (2.67%) linkerd
6 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (2.67%) WSUS
7 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.33%) Grafana
7 1 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.33%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.00%) VMware
3 10 (13.33%) Cisco
3 10 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (5.33%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.33%) Sophos
5 4 (5.33%) Splunk
5 4 (5.33%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.67%) F5
7 2 (2.67%) Google
7 2 (2.67%) Oracle
7 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.67%) SAP
7 2 (2.67%) Tenable
7 2 (2.67%) Varonis
8 1 (1.33%) Forcepoint
8 1 (1.33%) Juniper