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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 626 688
Rank change year-on-year -13 +62 +274
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 75 293 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.34% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51 188 178
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,987 £46,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,005 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,125 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.70% -18.26% +6.48%

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 51,521 85,132 94,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.14% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,367 59,760 55,710
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,078 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 22 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 22 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 +39 74 £60,000 - 97
UK excluding London +28 43 £52,500 +11.70% 49
London +76 31 £87,500 +16.67% 64
Work from Home +66 31 £66,367 +10.61% 71
North of England +12 20 £55,000 +10.00% 14
South East +70 14 - - 15
Yorkshire +64 12 £52,500 +20.00% 5
North West -36 8 £62,500 +8.70% 7
Midlands +47 6 £40,000 - 5
South West +104 3 £47,500 - 4
West Midlands +62 3 £40,000 -50.00% 2
East Midlands +25 3 £59,500 +48.75% 3

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 4 (5.33%) 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 24 (32.00%) AWS
3 18 (24.00%) PaaS
4 16 (21.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.33%) IaaS
7 4 (5.33%) SaaS
8 3 (4.00%) GCP
8 3 (4.00%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.67%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon Glacier
10 1 (1.33%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.33%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.33%) Firewall
2 13 (17.33%) Network Security
3 6 (8.00%) DNS
3 6 (8.00%) VPN
4 5 (6.67%) DHCP
5 4 (5.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.67%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.33%) ADSL
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.33%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.33%) Fast Ethernet
7 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
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 34 (45.33%) Finance
2 10 (13.33%) Banking
3 6 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.00%) Law
3 6 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Legal
5 3 (4.00%) Marketing
5 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Electronics
6 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (49.33%) Security Engineer
2 23 (30.67%) Lead
3 12 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Security Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Resilience Manager
7 4 (5.33%) Security Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Senior
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Information Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Information Security Analyst
9 2 (2.67%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.33%) YAML
2 9 (12.00%) Middleware
3 7 (9.33%) GraphQL
3 7 (9.33%) REST
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.67%) Security Posture
2 9 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.33%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
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%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
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 20 (26.67%) Windows
2 15 (20.00%) Linux
2 15 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.00%) VMS
5 1 (1.33%) Unix
5 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (49.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 32 (42.67%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (41.33%) DevOps
4 21 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (28.00%) DevSecOps
5 20 (26.67%) Computer Science
6 19 (25.33%) Cloud Security
6 19 (25.33%) SDLC
7 18 (24.00%) Application Security
7 18 (24.00%) OWASP
7 18 (24.00%) Security Testing
7 18 (24.00%) Test Automation
7 18 (24.00%) Threat Modelling
8 17 (22.67%) Agile
9 16 (21.33%) Backlog Management
9 16 (21.33%) Product Management
9 16 (21.33%) Product Strategy
10 15 (20.00%) Coaching
10 15 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 14 (18.67%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.00%) 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
5 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) Degree
2 18 (24.00%) Master's Degree
3 17 (22.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (12.00%) AWS Certification
5 7 (9.33%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (8.00%) CISSP
7 5 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (6.67%) CCNA
7 5 (6.67%) CCNP
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%) CCSP
9 2 (2.67%) CISM
9 2 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.67%) OSCP
10 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (37.33%) NIST
2 26 (34.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (21.33%) NCSC
4 7 (9.33%) GDPR
4 7 (9.33%) SLA
5 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.67%) GRC
6 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.33%) SOC 1
7 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (17.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (2.67%) Firmware
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.33%) DFS Replication
7 1 (1.33%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (17.33%) Ansible
2 8 (10.67%) Terraform
3 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.33%) SCCM
3 4 (5.33%) SCOM
4 2 (2.67%) CASB
4 2 (2.67%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.67%) Istio
4 2 (2.67%) linkerd
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.67%) VxRail
4 2 (2.67%) WSUS
5 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.33%) Grafana
5 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (42.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.67%) VMware
3 9 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (10.67%) Cisco
5 4 (5.33%) CheckPoint
6 3 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.00%) Tenable
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%) Sophos
7 2 (2.67%) Splunk
7 2 (2.67%) Varonis
7 2 (2.67%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.33%) Intel
8 1 (1.33%) Juniper