Vulnerability Scanning Jobs

Vulnerability Scanning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 674 648
Rank change year-on-year +59 -26 +275
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 96 238 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 69 199 206
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +1.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Scanning 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £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 Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in the UK

Vulnerability Scanning
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +33 91 £72,500 +20.83% 97
UK excluding London +112 47 £60,000 +20.00% 57
London +60 46 £95,000 +27.95% 55
Work from Home +56 19 £75,000 +36.36% 68
South East +84 18 £60,000 -20.00% 24
North of England +12 18 £60,000 +23.08% 14
Yorkshire +58 17 £70,000 +40.00% 11
South West +97 4 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Midlands +48 4 £40,000 -38.46% 6
Scotland +116 3 £62,500 +56.25% 3
West Midlands +64 2 £40,000 -38.46% 5
East Midlands +27 2 £44,500 -31.54% 1
North West -14 1 £41,831 -7.04% 3

Vulnerability Scanning
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 2 (2.08%) TPMS
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.79%) Azure
2 25 (26.04%) AWS
2 25 (26.04%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (20.83%) GCP
4 9 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.21%) SaaS
6 4 (4.17%) Cloudflare
6 4 (4.17%) Datadog
6 4 (4.17%) IaaS
7 2 (2.08%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.08%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.08%) PaaS
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (42.71%) Firewall
2 32 (33.33%) Network Security
3 8 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.29%) DNS
5 6 (6.25%) VPN
6 2 (2.08%) HTTP
6 2 (2.08%) VLAN
7 1 (1.04%) 4G
7 1 (1.04%) 5G
7 1 (1.04%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.04%) DHCP
7 1 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.04%) IPsec
7 1 (1.04%) IPv4
7 1 (1.04%) IPv6
7 1 (1.04%) SSL
7 1 (1.04%) VoIP
7 1 (1.04%) Wireless
7 1 (1.04%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) JIRA
2 3 (3.13%) Git
2 3 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.04%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) Metasploit
General
1 19 (19.79%) Legal
2 17 (17.71%) Retail
3 15 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.50%) Finance
5 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.33%) Law
7 6 (6.25%) Aviation
8 4 (4.17%) Banking
9 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.04%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 17 (17.71%) Analyst
3 16 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 11 (11.46%) Lead
5 9 (9.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 9 (9.38%) Security Specialist
6 7 (7.29%) Consultant
6 7 (7.29%) Information Security Consultant
6 7 (7.29%) Security Consultant
6 7 (7.29%) Security Manager
7 6 (6.25%) Head of Information
7 6 (6.25%) Head of Information Security
7 6 (6.25%) Head of Security
7 6 (6.25%) Information Analyst
7 6 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
7 6 (6.25%) Senior
8 5 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (2.08%) GraphQL
1 2 (2.08%) Middleware
1 2 (2.08%) REST
2 1 (1.04%) EDI
2 1 (1.04%) Kafka
2 1 (1.04%) pytest
2 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (30.21%) Management Information System
2 23 (23.96%) Security Posture
3 9 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (7.29%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (7.29%) Cyberattack
4 7 (7.29%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (6.25%) Robotics
6 5 (5.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (3.13%) PKI
8 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.04%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.04%) IoT
9 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (27.08%) Windows
2 7 (7.29%) Linux
3 6 (6.25%) Android
3 6 (6.25%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.08%) VMS
6 1 (1.04%) Kali Linux
6 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (71.88%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (55.21%) Incident Response
3 47 (48.96%) Information Security
4 46 (47.92%) Vulnerability Management
5 43 (44.79%) SIEM
6 34 (35.42%) Incident Management
7 27 (28.13%) Penetration Testing
8 24 (25.00%) Security Operations
9 22 (22.92%) Data Protection
9 22 (22.92%) Risk Management
9 22 (22.92%) Security Testing
10 20 (20.83%) Data Loss Prevention
10 20 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
10 20 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (20.83%) Security Management
11 18 (18.75%) Data Security
12 16 (16.67%) Cloud Security
12 16 (16.67%) Data Privacy
13 14 (14.58%) Internal Audit
13 14 (14.58%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.04%) Python
2 19 (19.79%) PowerShell
3 8 (8.33%) Perl
4 6 (6.25%) Bash
5 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.08%) Go
6 2 (2.08%) Java
6 2 (2.08%) Ruby
6 2 (2.08%) SQL
7 1 (1.04%) C#
7 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) CISSP
2 14 (14.58%) Degree
3 10 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
4 8 (8.33%) CISM
4 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (4.17%) OSCP
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.13%) CCNA
7 3 (3.13%) CCNP
7 3 (3.13%) CEH
8 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.08%) CCSP
8 2 (2.08%) CISA
8 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.04%) CISMP
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.04%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (48.96%) NIST
2 46 (47.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (31.25%) GDPR
4 26 (27.08%) PCI DSS
5 13 (13.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (5.21%) SOC 2
9 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
10 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (2.08%) NCSC
10 2 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (2.08%) SLA
11 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.17%) Firmware
3 3 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.08%) Docker
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Terraform
2 6 (6.25%) ArcSight ESM
2 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.25%) QRadar
3 5 (5.21%) Ansible
4 2 (2.08%) CASB
4 2 (2.08%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.08%) Istio
4 2 (2.08%) linkerd
5 1 (1.04%) Mesos
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.04%) Nessus
5 1 (1.04%) OpenVAS
5 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.33%) Cisco
2 8 (8.33%) Splunk
3 6 (6.25%) ArcSight
3 6 (6.25%) LogLogic
3 6 (6.25%) McAfee
3 6 (6.25%) Qualys
4 5 (5.21%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (5.21%) Tenable
5 4 (4.17%) Okta
5 4 (4.17%) VMware
6 3 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.13%) Google
6 3 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.08%) F5
7 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.08%) Varonis
8 1 (1.04%) Meraki
8 1 (1.04%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.04%) Sophos