Vulnerability Assessment Jobs

Vulnerability Assessment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 701 711 817
Rank change year-on-year +10 +106 -126
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 208 239 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.26% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 167 160 347
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,700 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £56,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% -11.11% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,000 £93,875 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -17.39% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Assessment 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +8 182 £70,000 +27.27% 48
UK excluding London -43 123 £60,000 +26.32% 27
London +110 78 £76,250 +6.64% 23
Work from Home -27 50 £62,500 +13.64% 24
South East -19 44 £80,000 +88.24% 6
North of England +35 18 £42,500 -48.48% 4
Midlands -28 18 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Scotland -55 13 £60,000 +41.18% 4
West Midlands -14 12 £40,000 -55.56% 3
South West -25 11 £62,500 +68.59% 5
North West -1 10 £39,000 -13.33% 4
East of England -3 9 £72,500 +31.82% 4
East Midlands -33 6 £43,750 -7.89%
North East - 5 £42,500 -
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 1
Yorkshire +57 3 £60,000 -33.33%
Northern Ireland +23 3 - -
Wales +9 3 - -

Vulnerability Assessment
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 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.96%) IIS
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.02%) Azure
2 60 (28.85%) AWS
3 34 (16.35%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (9.13%) GCP
5 14 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (6.73%) Datadog
6 13 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 9 (4.33%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (4.33%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.37%) SaaS
9 6 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.40%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.40%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.40%) PaaS
11 4 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 76 (36.54%) Firewall
2 28 (13.46%) Network Security
3 27 (12.98%) Intrusion Detection
4 16 (7.69%) DNS
5 12 (5.77%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.33%) VPN
6 9 (4.33%) Wireless
7 6 (2.88%) DHCP
8 5 (2.40%) IPsec
8 5 (2.40%) SSL
9 3 (1.44%) LAN
9 3 (1.44%) SAN
10 2 (0.96%) HTTP
10 2 (0.96%) NAS
10 2 (0.96%) OSPF
10 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.96%) SMTP
10 2 (0.96%) WLAN
11 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.48%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.33%) Power BI
2 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.96%) Big Data
4 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.73%) GitLab
3 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.48%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.48%) MSI
3 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.48%) Snyk
3 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.63%) Finance
3 33 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.21%) Legal
5 12 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.77%) Law
6 11 (5.29%) Marketing
7 8 (3.85%) Banking
7 8 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.92%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.92%) Retail
11 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 57 (27.40%) Analyst
2 42 (20.19%) Security Analyst
3 33 (15.87%) Senior
4 28 (13.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 26 (12.50%) Lead
5 26 (12.50%) Security Engineer
6 20 (9.62%) Security Manager
7 16 (7.69%) Architect
8 15 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.73%) Lead DevOps
9 14 (6.73%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.25%) Penetration Tester
11 12 (5.77%) Tester
12 10 (4.81%) Information Manager
12 10 (4.81%) Information Security Manager
12 10 (4.81%) Senior Penetration Tester
12 10 (4.81%) Senior Tester
13 9 (4.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 9 (4.33%) Senior Security Engineer
14 8 (3.85%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.73%) .NET
2 3 (1.44%) EDI
2 3 (1.44%) Sass
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.96%) REST
4 1 (0.48%) LDAP
4 1 (0.48%) OAuth
4 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.71%) Management Information System
2 38 (18.27%) Cyber Threat
3 24 (11.54%) Security Posture
4 15 (7.21%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (5.29%) Cyber Defence
5 11 (5.29%) PKI
6 10 (4.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 10 (4.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 10 (4.81%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.85%) IoT
7 8 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.37%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.40%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (2.40%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.40%) SCADA
11 3 (1.44%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (24.04%) Windows
2 26 (12.50%) Linux
3 17 (8.17%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.37%) Unix
5 6 (2.88%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.48%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (70.67%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (37.02%) Incident Response
3 76 (36.54%) Information Security
4 63 (30.29%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (27.40%) SIEM
6 55 (26.44%) Penetration Testing
7 43 (20.67%) Cloud Security
8 41 (19.71%) Vulnerability Management
9 36 (17.31%) Security Architecture
10 28 (13.46%) Computer Science
10 28 (13.46%) Security Operations
11 25 (12.02%) Business Continuity
11 25 (12.02%) DevOps
11 25 (12.02%) ITIL
11 25 (12.02%) Threat Intelligence
12 24 (11.54%) Risk Management
12 24 (11.54%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 23 (11.06%) CI/CD
14 22 (10.58%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (10.58%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.94%) Python
2 8 (3.85%) C#
3 7 (3.37%) C
3 7 (3.37%) C++
3 7 (3.37%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.40%) Bash
5 4 (1.92%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.48%) Java
Qualifications
1 57 (27.40%) CISSP
2 54 (25.96%) Degree
3 36 (17.31%) CISM
4 23 (11.06%) AWS Certification
4 23 (11.06%) Security Cleared
5 21 (10.10%) CISA
6 19 (9.13%) GIAC
7 18 (8.65%) CompTIA Security+
8 16 (7.69%) CEH
9 15 (7.21%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (6.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.73%) SC Cleared
11 13 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (5.77%) CompTIA CySA+
12 12 (5.77%) CRISC
12 12 (5.77%) Master's Degree
12 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (5.29%) CREST Certified
13 11 (5.29%) OSCP
14 9 (4.33%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (36.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (34.13%) NIST
3 28 (13.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (11.54%) GRC
5 20 (9.62%) NCSC
6 17 (8.17%) NIST 800
7 15 (7.21%) GDPR
8 13 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (5.29%) COBIT
10 10 (4.81%) PCI DSS
11 9 (4.33%) QA
12 7 (3.37%) ISO 13485
13 6 (2.88%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (2.88%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.96%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.48%) GxP
15 1 (0.48%) IASME
15 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.48%) SLA
15 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.13%) Docker
3 9 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.37%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.44%) KVM
6 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.48%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (10.58%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.62%) Terraform
3 14 (6.73%) Consul
3 14 (6.73%) Puppet
4 10 (4.81%) Ansible
5 6 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.92%) CSIRT
6 4 (1.92%) Nessus
7 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) CASB
8 1 (0.48%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.48%) Nmap
8 1 (0.48%) QRadar
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.48%) WMI
8 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (29.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.77%) Google
3 9 (4.33%) Alibaba
3 9 (4.33%) VMware
4 6 (2.88%) Cisco
5 5 (2.40%) Qualys
6 4 (1.92%) Intel
7 3 (1.44%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.44%) Splunk
8 2 (0.96%) CA
8 2 (0.96%) Meraki
8 2 (0.96%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.48%) arcserve
9 1 (0.48%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (0.48%) Dell
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.48%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.48%) Symantec