Vulnerability Scanning Jobs in England

Vulnerability Scanning
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 653 887
Rank change year-on-year +21 +234 -157
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 218 278 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.35% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 185 183 184
10th Percentile £42,050 £32,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -14.62% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £88,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Vulnerability Scanning 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,200 80,466 135,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.51% 95.48% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,193 48,975 73,419
10th Percentile £29,022 £34,324 £33,262
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Vulnerability Scanning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Scanning in England

Vulnerability Scanning
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +67 106 £74,250 +14.23% 32
North of England +57 50 £47,500 -9.52% 10
Yorkshire +68 22 £50,000 - 3
South East -26 22 £75,000 +42.86% 9
South West -33 21 £45,000 -2.70% 4
North West -5 17 £45,000 -35.71% 7
Midlands -18 16 £65,000 +52.94% 2
East Midlands -12 14 £65,000 +87.97% 1
North East -1 11 £45,000 -18.18%
West Midlands -20 2 £65,000 +52.94% 1
East of England -8 1 - - 2
Vulnerability Scanning
UK

Vulnerability Scanning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.46%) Misys Opics
1 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.98%) Azure
2 50 (22.94%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (16.97%) AWS
4 18 (8.26%) SaaS
5 16 (7.34%) Entra ID
6 11 (5.05%) Google Workspace
7 10 (4.59%) PaaS
8 8 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.67%) Cloudflare
8 8 (3.67%) IaaS
9 5 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.92%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.92%) GCP
12 1 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.46%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 86 (39.45%) Firewall
2 51 (23.39%) Network Security
3 22 (10.09%) DNS
4 18 (8.26%) Wireless
5 16 (7.34%) VPN
6 14 (6.42%) Intrusion Detection
6 14 (6.42%) VLAN
7 11 (5.05%) Broadband
7 11 (5.05%) LAN
7 11 (5.05%) NAS
7 11 (5.05%) WAN
8 8 (3.67%) Wireshark
9 6 (2.75%) DMZ
10 5 (2.29%) BGP
10 5 (2.29%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.29%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.83%) MPLS
11 4 (1.83%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (14.22%) Burp Suite
1 31 (14.22%) Metasploit
2 7 (3.21%) Snyk
3 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) JIRA
General
1 78 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 63 (28.90%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.72%) Games
4 18 (8.26%) Finance
5 17 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.88%) Retail
7 14 (6.42%) Law
8 8 (3.67%) Banking
8 8 (3.67%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.21%) Legal
10 4 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.38%) Aviation
11 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.38%) Military
11 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.92%) Police
13 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (24.31%) Analyst
2 44 (20.18%) Security Analyst
3 35 (16.06%) Penetration Tester
3 35 (16.06%) Tester
4 34 (15.60%) Consultant
5 33 (15.14%) Senior
6 23 (10.55%) Security Consultant
7 20 (9.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 19 (8.72%) IT Analyst
8 19 (8.72%) IT Security Analyst
9 17 (7.80%) Architect
10 16 (7.34%) IT Consultant
11 12 (5.50%) Information Security Consultant
11 12 (5.50%) Lead
12 11 (5.05%) Security Engineer
13 10 (4.59%) Infrastructure Architect
13 10 (4.59%) Network Engineer
13 10 (4.59%) Senior Network Engineer
14 9 (4.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 9 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.67%) Laravel
2 2 (0.92%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.92%) OAuth
2 2 (0.92%) OpenID
2 2 (0.92%) SAML
3 1 (0.46%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.76%) Cyber Threat
2 24 (11.01%) Cyberattack
3 22 (10.09%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (9.17%) Onboarding
4 20 (9.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 19 (8.72%) Management Information System
6 14 (6.42%) Security Posture
7 13 (5.96%) Video Conferencing
8 10 (4.59%) IoT
8 10 (4.59%) PKI
9 7 (3.21%) Cyber Security Posture
9 7 (3.21%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.75%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.92%) Life Science
12 2 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (24.31%) Windows
2 51 (23.39%) Linux
3 37 (16.97%) Windows Server
4 31 (14.22%) Kali Linux
5 18 (8.26%) Unix
6 11 (5.05%) Mac OS
7 8 (3.67%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.38%) VMS
9 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.46%) AIX
10 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (72.48%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (38.99%) Penetration Testing
3 83 (38.07%) Information Security
4 78 (35.78%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (35.32%) SIEM
6 59 (27.06%) Incident Response
7 52 (23.85%) Security Operations
8 51 (23.39%) Vulnerability Management
9 47 (21.56%) Security Testing
10 43 (19.72%) Data Protection
11 42 (19.27%) Computer Science
12 37 (16.97%) Red Team
13 32 (14.68%) Application Security
14 30 (13.76%) Cloud Security
14 30 (13.76%) Malware Analysis
15 28 (12.84%) Critical Thinking
15 28 (12.84%) Reverse Engineering
16 26 (11.93%) Identity Management
17 25 (11.47%) ITIL
18 24 (11.01%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.84%) PowerShell
2 24 (11.01%) Bash
3 20 (9.17%) Python
4 8 (3.67%) PHP
4 8 (3.67%) Rust
5 6 (2.75%) SQL
6 3 (1.38%) Java
6 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (27.98%) Degree
2 41 (18.81%) CISSP
3 32 (14.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.63%) Master's Degree
5 20 (9.17%) Security Cleared
6 14 (6.42%) CISA
7 13 (5.96%) CISM
7 13 (5.96%) CREST Certified
8 11 (5.05%) CEH
8 11 (5.05%) CompTIA CySA+
9 10 (4.59%) CISMP
10 9 (4.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (4.13%) SC Cleared
11 8 (3.67%) OSCP
12 7 (3.21%) SANS
13 6 (2.75%) GIAC
14 5 (2.29%) Azure Certification
15 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
15 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (1.83%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (30.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (18.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 38 (17.43%) GDPR
4 23 (10.55%) NIST
5 20 (9.17%) PCI DSS
6 19 (8.72%) SOC 2
7 12 (5.50%) NCSC
8 11 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 10 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (4.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (2.75%) COBIT
12 6 (2.75%) GRC
13 4 (1.83%) HIPAA
14 3 (1.38%) DO-254
15 2 (0.92%) SLA
16 1 (0.46%) GxP
16 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 35 (16.06%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.50%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.92%) Docker
5 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (11.93%) Nessus
2 11 (5.05%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (4.59%) CASB
4 9 (4.13%) SCCM
5 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.21%) Nexpose
6 6 (2.75%) CSIRT
6 6 (2.75%) WSUS
7 4 (1.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (1.38%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.38%) Nmap
8 3 (1.38%) Terraform
9 2 (0.92%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.92%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.46%) DatAdvantage
10 1 (0.46%) Grafana
10 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.46%) QRadar
10 1 (0.46%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 88 (40.37%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.47%) VMware
3 20 (9.17%) Qualys
4 14 (6.42%) Cisco
5 12 (5.50%) Google
6 11 (5.05%) Apple
7 6 (2.75%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.83%) arcserve
8 4 (1.83%) Avaya
8 4 (1.83%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.83%) Citrix
8 4 (1.83%) F5
8 4 (1.83%) IBM
8 4 (1.83%) Oracle
8 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.83%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.38%) Clearswift
9 3 (1.38%) McAfee
9 3 (1.38%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.38%) Veritas