Vulnerability Assessment Job Trends in the City of London

Vulnerability Assessment
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Vulnerability Assessment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 123 148
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 +54
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 2 16 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.053% 0.84% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.88% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 10
10th Percentile - £46,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £47,500 £59,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -9.40% -21.58%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £82,500 £79,125
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -10.00% -21.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Vulnerability Assessment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,048 1,820 2,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.32% 95.74% 91.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,228 1,402 2,040
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,188 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £113,875
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Vulnerability Assessment relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Vulnerability Assessment job vacancy trend in the City of London

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Vulnerability Assessment.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft