Vulnerability Assessment Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Vulnerability Assessment
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 544 502
Rank change year-on-year +186 -42 +162
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 115 48 120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.14% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.16% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 28 38 92
10th Percentile £44,100 £38,750 £38,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +20.19% -7.39%
75th Percentile £74,688 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,375 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,981 30,804 34,537
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.14% 89.33% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,113 22,881 24,933
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Vulnerability Assessment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Vulnerability Assessment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Assessment trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Vulnerability Assessment salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Vulnerability Assessment salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 84 (73.04%) AWS
2 82 (71.30%) AWS Lambda
2 82 (71.30%) Serverless
3 14 (12.17%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (11.30%) Azure
5 8 (6.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.74%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.87%) GCP
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 83 (72.17%) SSH
1 83 (72.17%) SSL
2 82 (71.30%) Broadband
3 17 (14.78%) Firewall
4 13 (11.30%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (5.22%) Network Security
6 4 (3.48%) LAN
6 4 (3.48%) WAN
7 3 (2.61%) DHCP
7 3 (2.61%) DNS
7 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.61%) VPN
7 3 (2.61%) WLAN
8 2 (1.74%) Wireless
9 1 (0.87%) BGP
9 1 (0.87%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.87%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.87%) OSPF
9 1 (0.87%) VLAN
9 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.87%) MySQL
1 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.87%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (80.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.48%) Finance
4 3 (2.61%) Law
5 2 (1.74%) Banking
5 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.87%) Military
6 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 82 (71.30%) Cloud Engineer
1 82 (71.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (11.30%) Analyst
3 10 (8.70%) Security Analyst
4 7 (6.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 5 (4.35%) Senior
6 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.48%) Security Engineer
7 3 (2.61%) Lead
7 3 (2.61%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 2 (1.74%) IT Engineer
8 2 (1.74%) Network Manager
8 2 (1.74%) Network Team Leader
8 2 (1.74%) Security Manager
8 2 (1.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (1.74%) Senior Manager
8 2 (1.74%) Senior Network Manager
8 2 (1.74%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (1.74%) Team Leader
9 1 (0.87%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (71.30%) RESTful
1 82 (71.30%) Web Services
2 2 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.74%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 88 (76.52%) Cyber Threat
2 87 (75.65%) Management Information System
3 83 (72.17%) Cyberattack
4 82 (71.30%) Onboarding
4 82 (71.30%) PKI
5 7 (6.09%) Security Posture
6 5 (4.35%) Operational Technology
6 5 (4.35%) SCADA
7 2 (1.74%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.30%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
3 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (90.43%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (73.91%) DevOps
2 85 (73.91%) Roadmaps
3 83 (72.17%) Deployment Automation
4 82 (71.30%) Key Management
4 82 (71.30%) Programme Delivery
4 82 (71.30%) Use Case
5 17 (14.78%) Incident Response
6 16 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (12.17%) Information Security
8 13 (11.30%) SIEM
9 11 (9.57%) Security Operations
10 9 (7.83%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (6.96%) Project Delivery
12 7 (6.09%) Incident Management
12 7 (6.09%) Risk Management
13 6 (5.22%) Patch Management
14 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 5 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
15 4 (3.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 87 (75.65%) Python
2 3 (2.61%) Bash
3 2 (1.74%) Perl
3 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.74%) SQL
4 1 (0.87%) Go
4 1 (0.87%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (9.57%) CISSP
1 11 (9.57%) Degree
2 10 (8.70%) CISM
3 7 (6.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.74%) CCIE
7 2 (1.74%) CCNP
7 2 (1.74%) CEH
7 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.74%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.74%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.74%) OSCP
8 1 (0.87%) CCNA
8 1 (0.87%) CISMP
8 1 (0.87%) MCSE
8 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (77.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 89 (77.39%) NIST
2 5 (4.35%) GDPR
3 3 (2.61%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.74%) GRC
4 2 (1.74%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.74%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.87%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 83 (72.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.87%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 83 (72.17%) Terraform
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.48%) Ansible
4 3 (2.61%) Puppet
5 2 (1.74%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.74%) SCCM
5 2 (1.74%) SCOM
6 1 (0.87%) Grafana
6 1 (0.87%) Nessus
6 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (71.30%) Thales
2 9 (7.83%) Tenable
2 9 (7.83%) VMware
3 7 (6.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.48%) Cisco
5 3 (2.61%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.74%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.74%) Aruba
6 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.74%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) Citrix
7 1 (0.87%) Dell
7 1 (0.87%) EqualLogic
7 1 (0.87%) iManage
7 1 (0.87%) Meraki
7 1 (0.87%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.87%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.87%) SolarWinds