Vulnerability Management Jobs

Vulnerability Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 285 537
Rank change year-on-year -147 +252 -37
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 568 1,287 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 1.27% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.33% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 421 465 506
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £37,393
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,975 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.04% +3.96% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,874 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.71% -11.88% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Management 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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Management in the UK

Vulnerability Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -104 512 £65,000 - 135
UK excluding London -207 352 £52,500 -0.71% 81
London +11 194 £80,000 +23.08% 54
Work from Home -52 175 £61,050 +1.75% 68
South East -103 94 £65,000 +13.04% 30
North of England -46 89 £52,084 -0.79% 14
North West -58 57 £52,084 -5.30% 5
South West -85 52 £53,750 -2.27% 14
Midlands -95 39 £40,000 -20.00% 13
East of England +16 35 £72,500 +31.82% 5
Yorkshire +50 29 £56,500 +9.99% 9
West Midlands -53 26 £37,500 -25.00% 9
Scotland -141 25 £52,500 -1.41% 4
Wales -14 17 £65,000 - 1
East Midlands -46 13 £49,250 +3.68% 4
North East -7 3 £40,000 -36.00%
Northern Ireland +12 1 - - 1

Vulnerability Management
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 24 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) IIS
4 2 (0.35%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 173 (30.46%) Azure
2 117 (20.60%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (14.08%) AWS
4 41 (7.22%) SaaS
5 28 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
6 26 (4.58%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (3.87%) GCP
8 17 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (2.82%) IaaS
9 16 (2.82%) PaaS
10 9 (1.58%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.06%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.06%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.70%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.53%) GitHub
14 2 (0.35%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 147 (25.88%) Firewall
2 132 (23.24%) Network Security
3 33 (5.81%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.93%) DNS
5 27 (4.75%) LAN
5 27 (4.75%) SAN
5 27 (4.75%) WAN
6 25 (4.40%) Intrusion Detection
7 24 (4.23%) Internet
7 24 (4.23%) Wireshark
8 22 (3.87%) VPN
9 8 (1.41%) HTTP
10 6 (1.06%) SMTP
10 6 (1.06%) SSL
11 5 (0.88%) VoIP
12 4 (0.70%) DKIM
12 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.53%) tcpdump
14 2 (0.35%) NAS
14 2 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.29%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.58%) Power BI
3 5 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.53%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.35%) Big Data
5 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.35%) MySQL
5 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle9i Database
6 1 (0.18%) OrientDB
6 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (3.17%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.11%) Burp Suite
3 10 (1.76%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.41%) Snyk
5 3 (0.53%) Git
5 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.35%) GitLab
6 2 (0.35%) Hudson
6 2 (0.35%) JIRA
6 2 (0.35%) JUnit
General
1 162 (28.52%) Finance
2 153 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 45 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.39%) Military
5 38 (6.69%) Retail
6 36 (6.34%) Banking
7 32 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (5.28%) Games
9 24 (4.23%) Legal
10 18 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.99%) Law
12 10 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.76%) Marketing
13 6 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Advertising
14 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.53%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 164 (28.87%) Analyst
2 109 (19.19%) Security Analyst
3 97 (17.08%) Senior
4 79 (13.91%) Security Engineer
5 61 (10.74%) Senior Analyst
6 57 (10.04%) Security Manager
7 55 (9.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 47 (8.27%) Lead
9 46 (8.10%) Vulnerability Manager
10 44 (7.75%) Consultant
11 43 (7.57%) Security Consultant
12 41 (7.22%) Senior Security Analyst
13 38 (6.69%) Architect
13 38 (6.69%) IT Analyst
13 38 (6.69%) Security Architect
14 32 (5.63%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 31 (5.46%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 26 (4.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 26 (4.58%) IT Security Analyst
17 25 (4.40%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.46%) REST
3 13 (2.29%) Web Services
4 11 (1.94%) .NET
5 10 (1.76%) React
6 7 (1.23%) Kafka
6 7 (1.23%) Middleware
7 6 (1.06%) SAML
8 5 (0.88%) EDI
9 4 (0.70%) OAuth
10 3 (0.53%) Sass
10 3 (0.53%) web3js
10 3 (0.53%) YAML
11 2 (0.35%) HTML5
11 2 (0.35%) Keycloak
11 2 (0.35%) LDAP
11 2 (0.35%) Node.js
11 2 (0.35%) RESTful
11 2 (0.35%) ServiceStack
11 2 (0.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 118 (20.77%) Management Information System
2 71 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 50 (8.80%) Security Posture
4 48 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (7.57%) Cyber Threat
6 38 (6.69%) Data Centre
7 34 (5.99%) Cyberattack
8 32 (5.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 32 (5.63%) PKI
9 24 (4.23%) Operational Technology
10 23 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
12 15 (2.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 14 (2.46%) Product Ownership
14 13 (2.29%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.94%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 5 (0.88%) IoT
18 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 161 (28.35%) Windows
2 85 (14.96%) Linux
3 66 (11.62%) Windows Server
4 35 (6.16%) Unix
5 17 (2.99%) Apple iOS
6 16 (2.82%) Android
7 12 (2.11%) VMS
8 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.06%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.88%) CentOS
10 5 (0.88%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.88%) Solaris
10 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.70%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.70%) zOS
12 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (65.14%) Cybersecurity
2 238 (41.90%) Information Security
3 217 (38.20%) SIEM
4 188 (33.10%) Security Operations
5 154 (27.11%) Incident Response
6 96 (16.90%) ITIL
7 93 (16.37%) Cloud Security
8 89 (15.67%) Identity Access Management
9 87 (15.32%) Incident Management
10 82 (14.44%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 76 (13.38%) Threat Intelligence
12 70 (12.32%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 69 (12.15%) Agile
14 68 (11.97%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 68 (11.97%) Penetration Testing
14 68 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (10.56%) Application Security
16 57 (10.04%) Risk Management
16 57 (10.04%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 54 (9.51%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 73 (12.85%) PowerShell
2 65 (11.44%) Python
3 15 (2.64%) Bash
4 13 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.11%) C#
6 10 (1.76%) SQL
7 6 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.53%) Java
9 1 (0.18%) C++
9 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) ProC
9 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 144 (25.35%) CISSP
2 116 (20.42%) Degree
3 101 (17.78%) Security Cleared
4 88 (15.49%) CISM
5 49 (8.63%) CEH
6 48 (8.45%) SC Cleared
7 47 (8.27%) GIAC
8 39 (6.87%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (6.34%) DV Cleared
10 23 (4.05%) CompTIA Security+
11 22 (3.87%) CRISC
12 20 (3.52%) CCSP
12 20 (3.52%) SSCP
13 18 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 18 (3.17%) CCNA
13 18 (3.17%) CISA
13 18 (3.17%) SANS
14 16 (2.82%) ISSMP
15 15 (2.64%) CompTIA CySA+
15 15 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (27.82%) NIST
2 131 (23.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (11.62%) GDPR
4 63 (11.09%) PCI DSS
5 50 (8.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 34 (5.99%) COBIT
7 30 (5.28%) GRC
8 21 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 20 (3.52%) SLA
10 16 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 15 (2.64%) NCSC
12 14 (2.46%) SOC 2
13 11 (1.94%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.53%) QA
16 2 (0.35%) ISO 31000
17 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 73 (12.85%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.11%) vSphere
3 27 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.94%) Docker
7 8 (1.41%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (8.10%) SCCM
2 39 (6.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (6.69%) Nessus
4 28 (4.93%) Ansible
5 25 (4.40%) CASB
5 25 (4.40%) Nmap
6 18 (3.17%) WSUS
7 15 (2.64%) CSIRT
8 14 (2.46%) Kubernetes
9 13 (2.29%) Terraform
10 12 (2.11%) QRadar
11 7 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 7 (1.23%) Nexpose
12 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.88%) Suricata
12 5 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.70%) DatAdvantage
14 3 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 204 (35.92%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.92%) Qualys
3 57 (10.04%) VMware
4 39 (6.87%) Splunk
5 27 (4.75%) Tanium
5 27 (4.75%) Tripwire
6 26 (4.58%) SolarWinds
7 25 (4.40%) Rapid7
8 24 (4.23%) Cisco
9 23 (4.05%) Citrix
10 22 (3.87%) NetApp
11 20 (3.52%) ServiceNow
12 16 (2.82%) Alibaba
13 14 (2.46%) Thycotic
14 13 (2.29%) Palo Alto
15 12 (2.11%) Apple
15 12 (2.11%) Google
16 9 (1.58%) Juniper
17 6 (1.06%) IBM
17 6 (1.06%) Varonis