Vulnerability Management Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Vulnerability Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 426 382
Rank change year-on-year +127 -44 +148
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 130 173 320
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 0.51% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.56% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 118 130 196
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,246 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,775 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +2.96% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £105,000 £87,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Vulnerability Management 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 15,406 30,912 40,454
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.78% 91.49% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,748 23,470 28,078
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,767 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Vulnerability Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Vulnerability Management salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Vulnerability Management salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
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 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.54%) Azure
2 30 (23.08%) AWS
3 14 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 10 (7.69%) GCP
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.08%) Azure AKS
5 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.08%) PaaS
5 4 (3.08%) Serverless
6 3 (2.31%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (2.31%) Prefect
6 3 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (21.54%) Firewall
2 16 (12.31%) Network Security
3 5 (3.85%) VPN
4 4 (3.08%) DNS
4 4 (3.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (3.08%) LAN
4 4 (3.08%) WAN
5 2 (1.54%) FTP
5 2 (1.54%) HTTP
5 2 (1.54%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.54%) Internet
5 2 (1.54%) SSH
5 2 (1.54%) SSL
5 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.54%) VLAN
5 2 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.77%) IPv4
6 1 (0.77%) IPv6
6 1 (0.77%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.54%) MySQL
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Git
2 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.31%) MLflow
4 1 (0.77%) JIRA
General
1 25 (19.23%) Finance
1 25 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.31%) Law
3 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.85%) Banking
5 4 (3.08%) Retail
6 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Advertising
7 2 (1.54%) Legal
7 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.77%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (23.85%) Security Engineer
2 19 (14.62%) Vulnerability Manager
3 18 (13.85%) Lead
4 17 (13.08%) Senior
5 16 (12.31%) Analyst
6 13 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Security Analyst
8 11 (8.46%) Security Manager
9 10 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Consultant
11 6 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Information Analyst
13 4 (3.08%) Security Consultant
13 4 (3.08%) Security Specialist
13 4 (3.08%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.31%) Azure Blueprints
1 3 (2.31%) Metaflow
1 3 (2.31%) PyTorch
1 3 (2.31%) scikit-learn
1 3 (2.31%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.54%) EDI
2 2 (1.54%) LAMP
2 2 (1.54%) Loki
2 2 (1.54%) XML
3 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.77%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.69%) Security Posture
2 22 (16.92%) Management Information System
3 18 (13.85%) Data Centre
4 12 (9.23%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (8.46%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.08%) Operational Technology
7 4 (3.08%) SCADA
8 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.31%) Housing Association
8 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.54%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.08%) Windows
2 12 (9.23%) Linux
3 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) VMS
5 2 (1.54%) AIX
5 2 (1.54%) CentOS
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.54%) Unix
5 2 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (31.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (28.46%) Incident Response
4 34 (26.15%) Cloud Security
5 30 (23.08%) Security Operations
6 29 (22.31%) DevOps
7 28 (21.54%) Information Security
8 25 (19.23%) Penetration Testing
9 24 (18.46%) SIEM
10 23 (17.69%) Risk Management
11 19 (14.62%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 19 (14.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (13.85%) Roadmaps
13 17 (13.08%) CI/CD
14 13 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
15 12 (9.23%) Data Engineering
15 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (9.23%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.08%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.31%) Python
3 8 (6.15%) Bash
4 3 (2.31%) Perl
4 3 (2.31%) SQL
5 2 (1.54%) AWK
5 2 (1.54%) C
5 2 (1.54%) C++
5 2 (1.54%) Go
5 2 (1.54%) Korn
5 2 (1.54%) PHP
6 1 (0.77%) Bicep
6 1 (0.77%) Java
6 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.77%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 24 (18.46%) CISSP
2 19 (14.62%) CISM
3 18 (13.85%) AWS Certification
4 16 (12.31%) Security Cleared
5 13 (10.00%) Degree
6 12 (9.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
8 8 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (5.38%) CISA
9 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (4.62%) Azure Certification
10 6 (4.62%) CRISC
10 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
11 5 (3.85%) CCNA
12 4 (3.08%) CCSP
12 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (3.08%) SANS
13 3 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (2.31%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (20.77%) NIST
2 24 (18.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (10.77%) GDPR
4 10 (7.69%) PCI DSS
5 9 (6.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (6.92%) GRC
6 7 (5.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (5.38%) SLA
7 6 (4.62%) SOC 2
8 5 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (3.08%) NCSC
10 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
10 3 (2.31%) NIST 800
11 2 (1.54%) COBIT
11 2 (1.54%) JSP 440
11 2 (1.54%) SOC 1
12 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (16.15%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.85%) Docker
4 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.54%) KVM
5 2 (1.54%) Postfix
5 2 (1.54%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.77%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (8.46%) Kubernetes
1 11 (8.46%) Terraform
2 7 (5.38%) Nessus
3 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.31%) CASB
4 3 (2.31%) Istio
4 3 (2.31%) linkerd
4 3 (2.31%) Nagios
5 2 (1.54%) Ansible
5 2 (1.54%) Grafana
5 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.54%) Puppet
5 2 (1.54%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.77%) Opsview
6 1 (0.77%) SCCM
6 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (35.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.77%) Tenable
3 20 (15.38%) Qualys
4 6 (4.62%) VMware
5 5 (3.85%) Cisco
5 5 (3.85%) Google
5 5 (3.85%) Splunk
6 3 (2.31%) Juniper
6 3 (2.31%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.31%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.31%) SAP
7 2 (1.54%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.54%) IBM
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle
8 1 (0.77%) Citrix
8 1 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.77%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.77%) Dell
8 1 (0.77%) Netskope
8 1 (0.77%) Okta