Vulnerability Assessment Jobs in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 249 241
Rank change year-on-year +65 -8 +52
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 20 14 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 10
10th Percentile £50,650 £36,250 £38,629
25th Percentile £52,500 £36,288 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -33.22% +4.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £94,688
90th Percentile £59,750 - £95,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment 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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,700 6,883 5,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.66% 80.30% 96.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,625 4,789 3,127
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,700 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £39,967
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the West Midlands

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Solihull - 12 £55,000 - 2
Birmingham +40 2 £39,000 +5.69% 3
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Staffordshire +30 1 £53,688 -6.63%
Shropshire - 1 £80,000 -
Vulnerability Assessment
England

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 10 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (15.00%) Network Security
4 2 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (10.00%) DNS
4 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Security Officer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (50.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) SIEM
2 14 (70.00%) ITIL
2 14 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (70.00%) Security Operations
3 13 (65.00%) Security Monitoring
4 12 (60.00%) Information Security
5 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (50.00%) Change Control
6 10 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
6 10 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (50.00%) IT Governance
6 10 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
7 7 (35.00%) Incident Response
8 6 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (20.00%) Agile
9 4 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (20.00%) Threat Detection
10 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
10 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 3 (15.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Bash
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) C#
2 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) CISSP
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) CEH
2 2 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (50.00%) COBIT
3 3 (15.00%) GDPR
4 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (10.00%) Puppet
1 2 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 2 (10.00%) LogRhythm
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Pega