Vulnerability Scanning Jobs with Work from Home 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 529 750
Rank change year-on-year +2 +221 -196
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 75 104 151
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.29% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 68 89 107
10th Percentile £42,906 £42,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £80,375 £93,750 £80,500
UK median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -15.38% +18.18%

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 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Vulnerability Scanning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Scanning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Scanning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

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 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (40.00%) Azure
2 22 (29.33%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (25.33%) AWS
4 11 (14.67%) Google Workspace
5 9 (12.00%) SaaS
6 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (4.00%) IaaS
8 3 (4.00%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.67%) PaaS
10 1 (1.33%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (52.00%) Firewall
2 14 (18.67%) Wireless
3 13 (17.33%) DNS
4 11 (14.67%) Broadband
4 11 (14.67%) NAS
5 10 (13.33%) Network Security
5 10 (13.33%) VPN
6 9 (12.00%) VLAN
7 5 (6.67%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (2.67%) LAN
8 2 (2.67%) WAN
9 1 (1.33%) BGP
9 1 (1.33%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (1.33%) DHCP
9 1 (1.33%) IPsec
9 1 (1.33%) OSPF
9 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Snyk
2 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.00%) Burp Suite
3 3 (4.00%) Metasploit
General
1 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Finance
4 11 (14.67%) Games
5 5 (6.67%) Legal
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.33%) Aviation
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Military
8 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (21.33%) Consultant
1 16 (21.33%) IT Consultant
2 12 (16.00%) Senior
3 10 (13.33%) Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Architect
4 9 (12.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 9 (12.00%) Security Analyst
5 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 7 (9.33%) Security Manager
6 6 (8.00%) Network Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Security Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Email Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) IT Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) IT Security Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) IT Security Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) Security Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) OAuth
1 3 (4.00%) OpenID
1 3 (4.00%) SAML
2 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Management Information System
1 12 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 11 (14.67%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (10.67%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (8.00%) Security Posture
5 5 (6.67%) IoT
5 5 (6.67%) Operational Technology
5 5 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.33%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (4.00%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.67%) Life Science
8 2 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.33%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (41.33%) Windows
1 31 (41.33%) Windows Server
2 18 (24.00%) Unix
3 11 (14.67%) Mac OS
4 6 (8.00%) Linux
5 3 (4.00%) Kali Linux
5 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.67%) VMS
7 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (54.67%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (38.67%) SIEM
3 20 (26.67%) Information Security
3 20 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
3 20 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (25.33%) Data Protection
5 18 (24.00%) Security Operations
6 17 (22.67%) Vulnerability Management
7 15 (20.00%) Business Continuity
8 14 (18.67%) Identity Management
8 14 (18.67%) Incident Response
9 13 (17.33%) Patch Management
10 11 (14.67%) Asset Management
10 11 (14.67%) Incident Management
10 11 (14.67%) IT Audit
10 11 (14.67%) Mobile Device Management
11 10 (13.33%) Cloud Security
12 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
12 9 (12.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 8 (10.67%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.33%) PowerShell
2 12 (16.00%) Bash
3 8 (10.67%) Python
4 3 (4.00%) Java
4 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) Degree
1 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.00%) CISSP
2 3 (4.00%) CREST Certified
2 3 (4.00%) OSCE
2 3 (4.00%) OSCP
2 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) CISA
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) CISM
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (41.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (28.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (24.00%) SOC 2
4 11 (14.67%) GDPR
5 7 (9.33%) NCSC
5 7 (9.33%) PCI DSS
6 5 (6.67%) GRC
7 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.67%) NIST
9 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.33%) DO-254
9 1 (1.33%) GxP
9 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (25.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (17.33%) Hyper-V
2 13 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.67%) Docker
5 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Nessus
1 11 (14.67%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (12.00%) SCCM
3 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (6.67%) CSIRT
4 5 (6.67%) Nexpose
4 5 (6.67%) Terraform
5 3 (4.00%) Nmap
5 3 (4.00%) WSUS
6 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.33%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (1.33%) Grafana
7 1 (1.33%) QRadar
7 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.33%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (1.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (28.00%) VMware
3 15 (20.00%) Qualys
4 11 (14.67%) Apple
4 11 (14.67%) Google
5 6 (8.00%) Cisco
6 4 (5.33%) Dell
7 3 (4.00%) Aderant
7 3 (4.00%) HP
7 3 (4.00%) iManage
8 1 (1.33%) arcserve
8 1 (1.33%) BMC
8 1 (1.33%) Juniper
8 1 (1.33%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.33%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.33%) Varonis
8 1 (1.33%) Veeam