Hybrid/Remote Vulnerability Management Job Trends

Vulnerability Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Vulnerability Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 318 434
Rank change year-on-year +93 +116 -48
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 210 104 152
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.05% 0.68% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.72% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 156 94 122
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,325 £42,055
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £57,500 £60,525
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £91,250 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £66,959
% change year-on-year +12.00% -6.66% +7.13%

All Process & 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 16,294 14,504 30,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 94.61% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,745 8,418 23,751
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vulnerability Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Vulnerability Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Vulnerability Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (0.48%) Apache
1 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (31.90%) Azure
2 36 (17.14%) AWS
3 24 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (8.10%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.67%) GCP
6 12 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (4.76%) Nutanix
8 8 (3.81%) Mimecast
9 5 (2.38%) Cloudflare
9 5 (2.38%) GitHub
9 5 (2.38%) SaaS
10 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.43%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.43%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.43%) Serverless
12 2 (0.95%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (32.86%) Firewall
2 38 (18.10%) Network Security
3 20 (9.52%) CHAP
4 18 (8.57%) VPN
5 11 (5.24%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (3.33%) Broadband
7 7 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (3.33%) NGFW
7 7 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.90%) DNS
8 4 (1.90%) MQTT
8 4 (1.90%) WAN
9 3 (1.43%) LAN
9 3 (1.43%) VLAN
10 1 (0.48%) SMTP
10 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
1 3 (1.43%) Power BI
2 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.48%) Db2
Development Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Git
2 6 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (0.48%) JIRA
3 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 62 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.81%) Finance
3 25 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.90%) Legal
4 24 (11.43%) Banking
4 24 (11.43%) Law
5 21 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (9.52%) Financial Institution
7 15 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.81%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.86%) Legal Technology
11 5 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.90%) Aviation
12 4 (1.90%) Retail
13 3 (1.43%) Back Office
14 2 (0.95%) Advertising
14 2 (0.95%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 37 (17.62%) Security Manager
2 33 (15.71%) Analyst
3 29 (13.81%) Security Analyst
4 28 (13.33%) Security Specialist
5 26 (12.38%) Senior
6 24 (11.43%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 20 (9.52%) Auditor
8 19 (9.05%) Internal Auditor
8 19 (9.05%) Security Auditor
9 17 (8.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 17 (8.10%) Information Manager
9 17 (8.10%) Information Security Manager
9 17 (8.10%) Lead
10 14 (6.67%) Security Engineer
10 14 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (6.19%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 12 (5.71%) Architect
12 12 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (5.71%) Security Architect
12 12 (5.71%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (1.90%) Kafka
3 3 (1.43%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.24%) Security Posture
2 52 (24.76%) Management Information System
3 17 (8.10%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (6.19%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (5.24%) Cyber Security Posture
7 10 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (4.76%) Product Ownership
8 9 (4.29%) Blockchain
9 7 (3.33%) Blog
10 6 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.86%) Podcast
11 4 (1.90%) PKI
12 3 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.95%) Housing Association
13 2 (0.95%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.24%) Windows
2 20 (9.52%) Linux
3 9 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.90%) Unix
5 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) AIX
6 1 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (73.81%) Cybersecurity
2 125 (59.52%) Incident Response
3 81 (38.57%) Information Security
4 76 (36.19%) SIEM
5 59 (28.10%) Risk Management
6 50 (23.81%) Security Operations
7 45 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (20.95%) Data Protection
8 44 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (20.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 40 (19.05%) Cloud Security
11 37 (17.62%) Incident Management
12 36 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
13 34 (16.19%) Agile
14 33 (15.71%) Penetration Testing
15 32 (15.24%) Security Architecture
16 30 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 30 (14.29%) Threat Management
17 29 (13.81%) Roadmaps
18 27 (12.86%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 40 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 30 (14.29%) Python
3 9 (4.29%) Bicep
4 6 (2.86%) C#
5 5 (2.38%) Bash
5 5 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (2.38%) Rust
5 5 (2.38%) SQL
6 4 (1.90%) Java
Qualifications
1 65 (30.95%) CISSP
2 57 (27.14%) CISM
3 42 (20.00%) Degree
4 29 (13.81%) Security Cleared
5 26 (12.38%) SC Cleared
6 25 (11.90%) CISA
7 23 (10.95%) FFIEC
8 20 (9.52%) CGEIT
8 20 (9.52%) SANS
9 16 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (5.71%) CEH
11 11 (5.24%) DV Cleared
12 10 (4.76%) CRISC
13 8 (3.81%) Azure Certification
13 8 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (3.33%) GIAC
14 7 (3.33%) GSEC
15 6 (2.86%) CCNP
15 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (48.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 95 (45.24%) NIST
3 48 (22.86%) GDPR
4 32 (15.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (11.43%) COBIT
6 15 (7.14%) PCI DSS
7 14 (6.67%) GRC
8 11 (5.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (3.81%) QA
10 7 (3.33%) Government Security Classifications
10 7 (3.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (3.33%) ISO 22301
10 7 (3.33%) JSP 440
11 6 (2.86%) Def Stans
12 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (1.90%) NIST 800
13 3 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.29%) Docker
5 4 (1.90%) KVM
6 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (8.10%) Terraform
2 16 (7.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.86%) Grafana
4 6 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.38%) Ansible
5 5 (2.38%) SCCM
6 4 (1.90%) Graylog
6 4 (1.90%) Proxmox
6 4 (1.90%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.43%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.95%) Argo
8 2 (0.95%) Nessus
8 2 (0.95%) WSUS
9 1 (0.48%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.48%) Istio
9 1 (0.48%) linkerd
9 1 (0.48%) Puppet
9 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (28.10%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.38%) VMware
3 13 (6.19%) Cisco
3 13 (6.19%) Palo Alto
4 10 (4.76%) Commvault
5 8 (3.81%) Google
5 8 (3.81%) Qualys
6 7 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.33%) Sophos
6 7 (3.33%) Splunk
6 7 (3.33%) Tenable
7 6 (2.86%) Aruba
8 5 (2.38%) Veeam
9 4 (1.90%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.90%) Okta
9 4 (1.90%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.43%) Apple
10 3 (1.43%) iManage
10 3 (1.43%) Red Hat