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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 424 381
Rank change year-on-year +79 -43 +161
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 122 172 311
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.51% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.56% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 112 128 187
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,775 £44,647
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +0.88% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,125 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £108,000 £87,200
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £64,975
% change year-on-year +3.85% +0.04% +3.96%

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 17,539 30,831 39,032
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.25% 91.25% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,801 23,355 27,082
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £101,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 17 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 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.51%) Azure
2 25 (20.49%) AWS
3 14 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.38%) GCP
5 8 (6.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.28%) Azure AKS
6 4 (3.28%) PaaS
6 4 (3.28%) Serverless
7 3 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.46%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.46%) Prefect
7 3 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.64%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (19.67%) Firewall
2 14 (11.48%) Network Security
3 5 (4.10%) VPN
4 4 (3.28%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (3.28%) LAN
4 4 (3.28%) WAN
5 3 (2.46%) DNS
6 2 (1.64%) FTP
6 2 (1.64%) HTTP
6 2 (1.64%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.64%) Internet
6 2 (1.64%) SSH
6 2 (1.64%) SSL
6 2 (1.64%) VLAN
6 2 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.82%) IPv4
7 1 (0.82%) IPv6
7 1 (0.82%) Modbus
7 1 (0.82%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.64%) MySQL
1 2 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Git
1 4 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.46%) MLflow
General
1 25 (20.49%) Finance
1 25 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.48%) Law
3 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.56%) Banking
5 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.46%) Retail
6 2 (1.64%) Advertising
6 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.64%) Legal
6 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.82%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 27 (22.13%) Security Engineer
2 19 (15.57%) Vulnerability Manager
3 17 (13.93%) Lead
4 14 (11.48%) Analyst
5 13 (10.66%) Senior
6 10 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Security Analyst
6 10 (8.20%) Security Manager
7 9 (7.38%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Consultant
9 6 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Security Specialist
10 5 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Administrator
11 4 (3.28%) Security Consultant
11 4 (3.28%) Support Manager
11 4 (3.28%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.46%) Azure Blueprints
1 3 (2.46%) Metaflow
1 3 (2.46%) PyTorch
1 3 (2.46%) scikit-learn
1 3 (2.46%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.64%) EDI
2 2 (1.64%) LAMP
2 2 (1.64%) Loki
2 2 (1.64%) XML
2 2 (1.64%) YAML
3 1 (0.82%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.05%) Security Posture
2 21 (17.21%) Management Information System
3 18 (14.75%) Data Centre
4 10 (8.20%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (7.38%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.28%) Operational Technology
7 4 (3.28%) SCADA
7 4 (3.28%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.46%) Housing Association
8 3 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.64%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.64%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.11%) Windows
2 12 (9.84%) Linux
3 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.46%) VMS
5 2 (1.64%) AIX
5 2 (1.64%) CentOS
5 2 (1.64%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.64%) Unix
5 2 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.72%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (30.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (29.51%) Incident Response
4 28 (22.95%) Cloud Security
4 28 (22.95%) Information Security
5 27 (22.13%) DevOps
6 24 (19.67%) Security Operations
7 23 (18.85%) Penetration Testing
7 23 (18.85%) Risk Management
8 22 (18.03%) SIEM
9 18 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.75%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 16 (13.11%) Roadmaps
10 16 (13.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 15 (12.30%) CI/CD
12 12 (9.84%) DevSecOps
12 12 (9.84%) Incident Management
12 12 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 11 (9.02%) ITIL
13 11 (9.02%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.11%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.30%) Python
3 7 (5.74%) Bash
4 3 (2.46%) Perl
4 3 (2.46%) SQL
5 2 (1.64%) AWK
5 2 (1.64%) Bicep
5 2 (1.64%) C
5 2 (1.64%) C++
5 2 (1.64%) Korn
5 2 (1.64%) PHP
6 1 (0.82%) Go
6 1 (0.82%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 22 (18.03%) CISSP
2 20 (16.39%) CISM
3 16 (13.11%) AWS Certification
3 16 (13.11%) Security Cleared
4 13 (10.66%) Degree
5 10 (8.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (8.20%) SC Cleared
6 8 (6.56%) CRISC
6 8 (6.56%) Master's Degree
7 7 (5.74%) CISA
7 7 (5.74%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.10%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.28%) CCNA
9 4 (3.28%) CCSP
9 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.46%) SANS
11 2 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.31%) NIST
2 22 (18.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (10.66%) GDPR
4 11 (9.02%) GRC
5 10 (8.20%) PCI DSS
6 8 (6.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (6.56%) SOC 2
7 7 (5.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (4.92%) SLA
9 5 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (3.28%) NCSC
10 4 (3.28%) NIST 800
10 4 (3.28%) SOC 1
11 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
12 2 (1.64%) COBIT
12 2 (1.64%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (17.21%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.46%) Docker
3 3 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.64%) KVM
4 2 (1.64%) Postfix
4 2 (1.64%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.82%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (8.20%) Kubernetes
1 10 (8.20%) Terraform
2 7 (5.74%) Nessus
3 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.28%) RSA Archer
4 3 (2.46%) CASB
4 3 (2.46%) Istio
4 3 (2.46%) linkerd
4 3 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.64%) Grafana
5 2 (1.64%) Nagios
5 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.64%) Puppet
6 1 (0.82%) Ansible
6 1 (0.82%) Opsview
6 1 (0.82%) SCCM
6 1 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 27 (22.13%) Tenable
3 19 (15.57%) Qualys
4 6 (4.92%) VMware
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco
5 4 (3.28%) Google
6 3 (2.46%) Juniper
6 3 (2.46%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.46%) SAP
7 2 (1.64%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.64%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.64%) IBM
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle
7 2 (1.64%) Splunk
8 1 (0.82%) Citrix
8 1 (0.82%) Dell
8 1 (0.82%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.82%) Netskope
8 1 (0.82%) SolarWinds