Vulnerability Remediation Jobs

Vulnerability Remediation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Remediation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 614 702 968
Rank change year-on-year +88 +266 -226
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation 296 278 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.29% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 191 173 144
10th Percentile £38,987 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £51,500 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,005 £69,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,000 £88,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -14.55% +1.85% +27.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Remediation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Vulnerability Remediation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Vulnerability Remediation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation.

Salary trend for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Remediation in the UK

Vulnerability Remediation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Remediation within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -21 211 £47,000 -14.55% 17
England +16 200 £60,000 -7.69% 33
Work from Home +72 103 £60,000 +5.26% 18
Scotland +18 86 £47,000 -27.69% 1
London +121 73 £75,000 +11.11% 17
North of England +58 60 £50,000 -6.54% 3
North West +20 44 £57,500 +6.48% 2
South East -45 37 £47,000 -14.55% 5
Midlands -9 17 £46,250 -7.50% 4
Yorkshire +90 15 £43,750 -12.50%
West Midlands +10 9 £80,000 +60.00% 2
East Midlands -12 8 £40,000 -15.79% 2
East of England +3 6 £32,500 -48.00% 1
Wales +11 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland +27 1 - -
North East -3 1 £50,000 +25.00% 1
South West -53 1 - - 2

Vulnerability Remediation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.49%) Azure
2 90 (30.41%) AWS
3 81 (27.36%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (24.32%) Datadog
5 52 (17.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (3.72%) GCP
7 9 (3.04%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.04%) SaaS
8 3 (1.01%) IaaS
8 3 (1.01%) PaaS
9 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.68%) Serverless
9 2 (0.68%) WeChat
10 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.34%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.34%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.34%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 57 (19.26%) Firewall
2 55 (18.58%) DNS
3 30 (10.14%) Internet
4 26 (8.78%) DKIM
4 26 (8.78%) DMARC
5 20 (6.76%) Network Security
6 10 (3.38%) VPN
7 8 (2.70%) VLAN
7 8 (2.70%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.36%) DHCP
9 5 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.69%) PBX
9 5 (1.69%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.01%) 802.11
11 2 (0.68%) DMZ
11 2 (0.68%) HTTP
11 2 (0.68%) LAN
11 2 (0.68%) SMTP
11 2 (0.68%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.04%) Power BI
2 5 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.69%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.68%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.34%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) Snyk
General
1 120 (40.54%) Finance
2 119 (40.20%) Social Skills
3 78 (26.35%) Law
4 75 (25.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (16.22%) Marketing
6 23 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.08%) Banking
8 14 (4.73%) Legal
9 12 (4.05%) Games
10 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.03%) Advertising
11 6 (2.03%) Retail
12 5 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.68%) Mandarin Language
15 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (33.11%) Analyst
2 72 (24.32%) Software Engineer
3 67 (22.64%) Security Analyst
4 55 (18.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 52 (17.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 49 (16.55%) Lead
7 46 (15.54%) Senior
8 41 (13.85%) Lead Software Engineer
9 33 (11.15%) Information Analyst
9 33 (11.15%) Information Security Analyst
10 31 (10.47%) Security Engineer
11 27 (9.12%) Senior Analyst
11 27 (9.12%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 21 (7.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 20 (6.76%) Senior Security Analyst
14 18 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (5.74%) IT Engineer
15 17 (5.74%) Senior Security Engineer
15 17 (5.74%) Vulnerability Manager
16 13 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (24.32%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (2.70%) Middleware
3 3 (1.01%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.68%) EDI
4 2 (0.68%) REST
4 2 (0.68%) RESTful
5 1 (0.34%) .NET
5 1 (0.34%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.57%) Public Cloud
3 49 (16.55%) Cyberattack
4 41 (13.85%) Management Information System
5 21 (7.09%) Cyber Threat
6 20 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.04%) Operational Technology
8 9 (3.04%) PKI
8 9 (3.04%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.68%) BYOD
12 2 (0.68%) Digital Media
12 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.34%) IoT
13 1 (0.34%) Marketing Technology
13 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 83 (28.04%) Windows
2 20 (6.76%) Linux
3 15 (5.07%) Unix
4 12 (4.05%) VMS
5 4 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (52.03%) Cybersecurity
2 99 (33.45%) Information Security
3 83 (28.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 79 (26.69%) Agile
5 73 (24.66%) CI/CD
6 72 (24.32%) Architectural Design
6 72 (24.32%) Artificial Intelligence
6 72 (24.32%) Community of Practice
6 72 (24.32%) Information Architecture
6 72 (24.32%) Machine Learning
6 72 (24.32%) Observability
6 72 (24.32%) Operational Stability
6 72 (24.32%) SDLC
6 72 (24.32%) Software Engineering
7 71 (23.99%) Vulnerability Management
8 70 (23.65%) Continuous Delivery
9 57 (19.26%) Identity Access Management
10 52 (17.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 45 (15.20%) Incident Response
12 44 (14.86%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.24%) Java
2 22 (7.43%) PowerShell
3 18 (6.08%) Python
4 5 (1.69%) Bash
5 2 (0.68%) Go
6 1 (0.34%) C#
6 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (15.20%) Degree
2 36 (12.16%) CISSP
3 35 (11.82%) CISM
4 20 (6.76%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.74%) CISA
6 16 (5.41%) GIAC
6 16 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 14 (4.73%) PCI QSA
8 10 (3.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (3.04%) CRISC
9 9 (3.04%) ISSMP
10 7 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.03%) CCNA
11 6 (2.03%) CCNP
12 5 (1.69%) CEH
12 5 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.35%) CREST Certified
14 3 (1.01%) CCSA
14 3 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (20.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (10.14%) NIST
3 18 (6.08%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.38%) COBIT
4 10 (3.38%) GRC
5 7 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.03%) GDPR
7 5 (1.69%) NCSC
8 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.35%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.01%) SLA
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (15.54%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.72%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (24.32%) Grafana
2 53 (17.91%) Terraform
3 28 (9.46%) WSUS
4 26 (8.78%) CASB
5 20 (6.76%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.08%) SCCM
7 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (3.72%) Ansible
9 9 (3.04%) Nessus
10 5 (1.69%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.35%) CSIRT
12 3 (1.01%) QRadar
13 2 (0.68%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (0.68%) Nmap
14 1 (0.34%) Backup Exec
14 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.34%) Puppet
14 1 (0.34%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 88 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 77 (26.01%) Splunk
3 72 (24.32%) Dynatrace
4 19 (6.42%) VMware
5 15 (5.07%) Cisco
6 13 (4.39%) Qualys
7 12 (4.05%) Apple
8 10 (3.38%) Google
8 10 (3.38%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.04%) Alibaba
9 9 (3.04%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (2.03%) LogRhythm
11 3 (1.01%) SonicWALL
11 3 (1.01%) Veeam
12 2 (0.68%) Forcepoint
12 2 (0.68%) Huawei
12 2 (0.68%) N-able
12 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.68%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.68%) Varonis