Vulnerability Scanning Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Vulnerability Scanning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 502 551
Rank change year-on-year +110 +49 +170
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 21 87 120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.28% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 74 94
10th Percentile £47,250 £37,500 £46,108
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,625 £80,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +16.67% +0.80% -0.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Vulnerability Scanning 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 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Vulnerability Scanning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Vulnerability Scanning salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Vulnerability Scanning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.76%) Datadog
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
1 3 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) Bluetooth
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.76%) IPv4
2 1 (4.76%) IPv6
2 1 (4.76%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Security Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Security Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 3 (14.29%) IT Security Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Information Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Information Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (19.05%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (19.05%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) VMS
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (42.86%) Information Security
3 8 (38.10%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) DevSecOps
4 5 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (23.81%) SIEM
4 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (19.05%) Database Security
5 4 (19.05%) Due Diligence
5 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Line Management
5 4 (19.05%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Security Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Security Patching
5 4 (19.05%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Bash
3 4 (19.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) CISSP
2 5 (23.81%) CISM
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
4 3 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (14.29%) CCSP
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (9.52%) CISA
6 1 (4.76%) CISMP
6 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (4.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (80.95%) NIST
2 8 (38.10%) GDPR
2 8 (38.10%) PCI DSS
3 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (19.05%) SOC 2
5 3 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (9.52%) NCSC
7 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) Firmware
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) CASB
1 3 (14.29%) Istio
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) linkerd
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Okta
3 3 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.52%) VMware
5 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.76%) Dell