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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 263 554
Rank change year-on-year -168 +291 -84
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 571 1,336 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 1.42% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.49% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 422 442 539
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,477 £37,272
25th Percentile £51,063 £48,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,708
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.33% -3.53%
75th Percentile £85,750 £73,750 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,250 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £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 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 6 June 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 6 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 -144 519 £65,000 - 113
UK excluding London -256 346 £52,500 - 68
London -1 204 £80,000 +23.08% 39
Work from Home -60 171 £60,000 +4.35% 57
North of England -85 94 £52,084 -0.79% 22
South East -115 87 £60,000 +4.35% 21
North West -76 61 £52,084 -7.41% 12
South West -111 50 £62,500 - 6
Midlands -105 41 £40,000 -20.00% 11
East of England -20 33 £72,500 +41.46% 4
Yorkshire +23 31 £56,500 +9.99% 9
West Midlands -81 28 £37,500 -28.57% 3
Scotland -169 25 £53,750 +4.64% 4
Wales -22 15 £65,000 +16.07%
East Midlands -62 13 £52,500 +10.53% 8
North East -18 2 £35,750 -42.80% 1
Northern Ireland +5 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 25 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Ripple
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 172 (30.12%) Azure
2 118 (20.67%) Microsoft 365
3 88 (15.41%) AWS
4 39 (6.83%) SaaS
5 29 (5.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 29 (5.08%) Entra ID
6 27 (4.73%) GCP
7 23 (4.03%) Cloud Computing
8 16 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.75%) IaaS
10 10 (1.75%) PaaS
11 9 (1.58%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.05%) Mimecast
13 5 (0.88%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (0.53%) GitHub
15 3 (0.53%) WhatsApp
16 2 (0.35%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 135 (23.64%) Firewall
2 134 (23.47%) Network Security
3 27 (4.73%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.55%) DNS
4 26 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 26 (4.55%) LAN
5 25 (4.38%) SAN
5 25 (4.38%) WAN
6 23 (4.03%) Internet
6 23 (4.03%) Wireshark
7 22 (3.85%) VPN
8 10 (1.75%) SSL
9 7 (1.23%) HTTP
9 7 (1.23%) SMTP
10 5 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.70%) DKIM
12 3 (0.53%) tcpdump
12 3 (0.53%) VoIP
13 2 (0.35%) DHCP
13 2 (0.35%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.98%) 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 19 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.10%) Burp Suite
3 10 (1.75%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.40%) Snyk
5 7 (1.23%) Git
6 4 (0.70%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.35%) GitLab
8 2 (0.35%) Hudson
8 2 (0.35%) JIRA
8 2 (0.35%) JUnit
General
1 160 (28.02%) Finance
2 143 (25.04%) Social Skills
3 45 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.53%) Military
5 38 (6.65%) Retail
6 37 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (5.08%) Banking
8 24 (4.20%) Legal
9 23 (4.03%) Games
10 19 (3.33%) Law
11 18 (3.15%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.75%) Marketing
13 8 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.23%) Advertising
15 6 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
18 2 (0.35%) Back Office
18 2 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 168 (29.42%) Analyst
2 110 (19.26%) Security Analyst
3 96 (16.81%) Senior
4 83 (14.54%) Security Engineer
5 57 (9.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 56 (9.81%) Security Manager
6 56 (9.81%) Senior Analyst
7 50 (8.76%) Consultant
8 49 (8.58%) Lead
8 49 (8.58%) Security Consultant
9 42 (7.36%) Vulnerability Manager
10 37 (6.48%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 37 (6.48%) IT Analyst
11 35 (6.13%) Senior Security Analyst
12 33 (5.78%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 32 (5.60%) Architect
13 32 (5.60%) Security Architect
14 27 (4.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 26 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (4.38%) IT Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.45%) REST
3 11 (1.93%) .NET
4 10 (1.75%) React
5 7 (1.23%) Kafka
5 7 (1.23%) Web Services
6 6 (1.05%) SAML
7 5 (0.88%) EDI
8 4 (0.70%) OAuth
9 3 (0.53%) Sass
9 3 (0.53%) web3js
9 3 (0.53%) YAML
10 2 (0.35%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.35%) LDAP
10 2 (0.35%) Node.js
10 2 (0.35%) RESTful
10 2 (0.35%) ServiceStack
11 1 (0.18%) J2EE
11 1 (0.18%) Middleware
11 1 (0.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 107 (18.74%) Management Information System
2 69 (12.08%) Security Operations Centre
3 47 (8.23%) Security Posture
3 47 (8.23%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (7.01%) Cyber Threat
5 37 (6.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 35 (6.13%) Cyberattack
6 35 (6.13%) Data Centre
7 31 (5.43%) PKI
8 22 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
10 18 (3.15%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 15 (2.63%) Public Cloud
13 14 (2.45%) Onboarding
14 13 (2.28%) Operational Technology
15 7 (1.23%) Blockchain
16 6 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
17 4 (0.70%) Cyber Security Posture
17 4 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 160 (28.02%) Windows
2 89 (15.59%) Linux
3 61 (10.68%) Windows Server
4 36 (6.30%) Unix
5 14 (2.45%) Apple iOS
6 13 (2.28%) Android
7 12 (2.10%) VMS
8 8 (1.40%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.23%) Windows 10
9 7 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
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%) Rocky
11 4 (0.70%) zOS
12 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (63.92%) Cybersecurity
2 250 (43.78%) Information Security
3 208 (36.43%) SIEM
4 186 (32.57%) Security Operations
5 153 (26.80%) Incident Response
6 96 (16.81%) Incident Management
7 93 (16.29%) Cloud Security
8 87 (15.24%) ITIL
9 85 (14.89%) Identity Access Management
10 83 (14.54%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 75 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
12 74 (12.96%) Threat Intelligence
13 73 (12.78%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 72 (12.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 71 (12.43%) Penetration Testing
16 67 (11.73%) Agile
17 61 (10.68%) Risk Management
18 60 (10.51%) Application Security
18 60 (10.51%) Vulnerability Scanning
19 53 (9.28%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 73 (12.78%) PowerShell
2 72 (12.61%) Python
3 20 (3.50%) Bash
4 13 (2.28%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.10%) C#
5 12 (2.10%) SQL
6 6 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.53%) Java
8 1 (0.18%) C++
8 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.18%) ProC
8 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 151 (26.44%) CISSP
2 118 (20.67%) Degree
3 96 (16.81%) Security Cleared
4 94 (16.46%) CISM
5 49 (8.58%) CEH
6 47 (8.23%) SC Cleared
7 46 (8.06%) GIAC
8 39 (6.83%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (6.13%) DV Cleared
10 27 (4.73%) CRISC
11 21 (3.68%) CCNA
11 21 (3.68%) CISA
12 20 (3.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 17 (2.98%) CCSP
13 17 (2.98%) SSCP
14 16 (2.80%) ISSMP
15 15 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (2.63%) DBS Check
16 14 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (2.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (27.15%) NIST
2 123 (21.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (11.03%) GDPR
4 52 (9.11%) PCI DSS
5 43 (7.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 33 (5.78%) GRC
7 31 (5.43%) COBIT
8 22 (3.85%) SLA
9 21 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 14 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (2.45%) NCSC
10 14 (2.45%) SOC 2
11 12 (2.10%) NIST 800
12 7 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.53%) QA
15 2 (0.35%) ISO 31000
16 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
16 1 (0.18%) RMADS
System Software
1 76 (13.31%) Active Directory
2 33 (5.78%) vSphere
3 23 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.93%) Docker
6 6 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.18%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 47 (8.23%) SCCM
2 35 (6.13%) Nessus
3 29 (5.08%) Ansible
3 29 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (4.73%) CASB
5 22 (3.85%) Nmap
6 18 (3.15%) WSUS
7 15 (2.63%) Kubernetes
8 14 (2.45%) CSIRT
8 14 (2.45%) QRadar
8 14 (2.45%) Terraform
9 7 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 7 (1.23%) Nexpose
9 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.88%) Suricata
11 5 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.70%) DatAdvantage
13 3 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 206 (36.08%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.63%) VMware
3 54 (9.46%) Qualys
4 33 (5.78%) Splunk
5 31 (5.43%) Tripwire
6 30 (5.25%) Cisco
6 30 (5.25%) SolarWinds
7 29 (5.08%) Tanium
8 25 (4.38%) Rapid7
9 22 (3.85%) Citrix
10 21 (3.68%) NetApp
11 19 (3.33%) ServiceNow
12 16 (2.80%) Alibaba
13 13 (2.28%) Apple
13 13 (2.28%) Palo Alto
14 12 (2.10%) Google
15 11 (1.93%) Thycotic
16 9 (1.58%) Juniper
17 8 (1.40%) IBM
17 8 (1.40%) Kenna