Vulnerability Scanning Job Trends in Wales

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 12 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.61% - 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £41,875 - -
25th Percentile £42,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 - -
75th Percentile £50,313 - -
90th Percentile £51,625 - -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,272 451 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.44% 83.99% 71.30%
Number of salaries quoted 884 283 1,196
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,851 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,841 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Scanning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Vulnerability Scanning job vacancy trend in Wales

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Vulnerability Scanning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Vulnerability Scanning

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. 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
South Wales - 11 £50,000 -
West Wales - 1 £42,500 -
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 10 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) DHCP
1 10 (83.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (8.33%) Gatling
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) JMeter
1 1 (8.33%) Pa11y
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
1 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) IT Security Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Customer Experience
1 10 (83.33%) Customer Service
1 10 (83.33%) Email Filtering
1 10 (83.33%) Kalman Filter
1 10 (83.33%) Migration
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (83.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 10 (83.33%) Web Filtering
2 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (8.33%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (8.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (8.33%) Due Diligence
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (8.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (83.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 10 (83.33%) Hyper-V
1 10 (83.33%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (83.33%) Brocade
2 10 (83.33%) Nimble Storage
2 10 (83.33%) SolarWinds
2 10 (83.33%) Splunk
2 10 (83.33%) Tanium
2 10 (83.33%) Veeam
2 10 (83.33%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco