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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 279 554
Rank change year-on-year -156 +275 -77
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Management 564 1,292 961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 1.30% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.36% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 418 451 507
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £37,286
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £84,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,249 £57,550
% change year-on-year -1.41% -7.47% +4.64%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 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 18 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 -111 509 £65,000 - 146
UK excluding London -209 349 £52,500 -1.41% 96
London +14 194 £80,000 +23.08% 60
Work from Home -45 171 £61,050 +6.17% 64
South East -110 91 £65,000 +13.04% 37
North of England -45 88 £52,084 -0.79% 21
North West -61 56 £52,084 -5.30% 7
South West -93 52 £56,500 -3.83% 14
Midlands -88 40 £40,000 -20.00% 12
East of England +2 35 £72,500 +31.82% 6
Yorkshire +43 29 £56,500 +9.99% 14
West Midlands -43 26 £37,500 -28.57% 9
Scotland -153 25 £52,500 -1.41% 4
Wales -17 17 £65,000 +16.07% 2
East Midlands -40 14 £49,250 +3.68% 3
North East -7 3 £40,000 -36.00%
Northern Ireland +10 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 23 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.71%) 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 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.13%) 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
1 169 (29.96%) Azure
2 115 (20.39%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (14.01%) AWS
4 42 (7.45%) SaaS
5 27 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
6 25 (4.43%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (3.90%) GCP
8 18 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.84%) IaaS
10 16 (2.84%) PaaS
11 9 (1.60%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.06%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.71%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.71%) WhatsApp
14 3 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.53%) GitHub
15 2 (0.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 143 (25.35%) Firewall
2 132 (23.40%) Network Security
3 31 (5.50%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.96%) LAN
4 28 (4.96%) WAN
5 26 (4.61%) DNS
5 26 (4.61%) SAN
6 25 (4.43%) Intrusion Detection
6 25 (4.43%) Wireshark
7 23 (4.08%) Internet
8 22 (3.90%) VPN
9 7 (1.24%) HTTP
9 7 (1.24%) SSL
10 6 (1.06%) SMTP
11 4 (0.71%) DKIM
11 4 (0.71%) VoIP
11 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.53%) tcpdump
13 2 (0.35%) VLAN
13 2 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.60%) Power BI
3 5 (0.89%) 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 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.13%) Burp Suite
3 10 (1.77%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.42%) 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
1 160 (28.37%) Finance
2 150 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 45 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.45%) Military
5 37 (6.56%) Retail
6 35 (6.21%) Banking
7 32 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (5.32%) Games
9 23 (4.08%) Legal
10 18 (3.19%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.84%) Law
12 10 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.77%) Marketing
13 6 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.89%) Advertising
15 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.53%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.35%) Back Office
17 2 (0.35%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 163 (28.90%) Analyst
2 107 (18.97%) Security Analyst
3 95 (16.84%) Senior
4 77 (13.65%) Security Engineer
5 60 (10.64%) Senior Analyst
6 57 (10.11%) Security Manager
7 55 (9.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 47 (8.33%) Lead
9 45 (7.98%) Consultant
9 45 (7.98%) Vulnerability Manager
10 44 (7.80%) Security Consultant
11 39 (6.91%) Senior Security Analyst
12 38 (6.74%) Architect
12 38 (6.74%) IT Analyst
12 38 (6.74%) Security Architect
13 33 (5.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 31 (5.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 26 (4.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 26 (4.61%) IT Security Analyst
16 24 (4.26%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.48%) REST
3 13 (2.30%) Web Services
4 11 (1.95%) .NET
5 10 (1.77%) React
6 7 (1.24%) Kafka
6 7 (1.24%) Middleware
7 6 (1.06%) SAML
8 5 (0.89%) EDI
9 4 (0.71%) OAuth
10 3 (0.53%) Sass
10 3 (0.53%) web3js
10 3 (0.53%) YAML
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
12 1 (0.18%) HTML
12 1 (0.18%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 116 (20.57%) Management Information System
2 69 (12.23%) Security Operations Centre
3 49 (8.69%) Security Posture
4 48 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (7.45%) Cyber Threat
6 37 (6.56%) Data Centre
7 35 (6.21%) Cyberattack
8 33 (5.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 32 (5.67%) PKI
10 23 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (3.90%) Operational Technology
12 17 (3.01%) Cyber Defence
13 15 (2.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 14 (2.48%) Product Ownership
15 13 (2.30%) Onboarding
16 11 (1.95%) Public Cloud
17 6 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
18 5 (0.89%) IoT
18 5 (0.89%) Mobile App
19 4 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 159 (28.19%) Windows
2 85 (15.07%) Linux
3 63 (11.17%) Windows Server
4 36 (6.38%) Unix
5 17 (3.01%) Apple iOS
6 16 (2.84%) Android
7 12 (2.13%) VMS
8 7 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.06%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.89%) CentOS
10 5 (0.89%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.89%) Solaris
10 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.71%) zOS
12 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (65.07%) Cybersecurity
2 238 (42.20%) Information Security
3 215 (38.12%) SIEM
4 183 (32.45%) Security Operations
5 151 (26.77%) Incident Response
6 95 (16.84%) ITIL
7 93 (16.49%) Cloud Security
8 89 (15.78%) Identity Access Management
9 88 (15.60%) Incident Management
10 83 (14.72%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
11 77 (13.65%) Threat Intelligence
12 70 (12.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 69 (12.23%) Agile
13 69 (12.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 69 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (12.06%) Penetration Testing
15 59 (10.46%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 58 (10.28%) Application Security
17 57 (10.11%) Risk Management
18 52 (9.22%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 72 (12.77%) PowerShell
2 65 (11.52%) Python
3 15 (2.66%) Bash
4 13 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.13%) C#
6 10 (1.77%) 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
1 145 (25.71%) CISSP
2 119 (21.10%) Degree
3 100 (17.73%) Security Cleared
4 91 (16.13%) CISM
5 49 (8.69%) CEH
6 48 (8.51%) SC Cleared
7 47 (8.33%) GIAC
8 38 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (6.21%) DV Cleared
10 22 (3.90%) CRISC
11 21 (3.72%) CompTIA Security+
12 20 (3.55%) CCSP
12 20 (3.55%) SSCP
13 18 (3.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 18 (3.19%) SANS
14 17 (3.01%) CCNA
14 17 (3.01%) CISA
15 16 (2.84%) ISSMP
16 15 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
17 14 (2.48%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (28.37%) NIST
2 131 (23.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (11.35%) GDPR
4 63 (11.17%) PCI DSS
5 47 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 35 (6.21%) COBIT
7 31 (5.50%) GRC
8 21 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 20 (3.55%) SLA
10 15 (2.66%) NCSC
11 14 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (2.30%) SOC 2
13 11 (1.95%) NIST 800
14 8 (1.42%) 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 71 (12.59%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.32%) vSphere
3 27 (4.79%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (1.95%) Docker
7 7 (1.24%) 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 (8.16%) SCCM
2 37 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (6.56%) Nessus
3 28 (4.96%) Ansible
4 26 (4.61%) CASB
5 25 (4.43%) Nmap
6 18 (3.19%) WSUS
7 15 (2.66%) CSIRT
8 14 (2.48%) Kubernetes
9 13 (2.30%) QRadar
9 13 (2.30%) Terraform
10 7 (1.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 7 (1.24%) Nexpose
11 5 (0.89%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.89%) Suricata
11 5 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.71%) DatAdvantage
13 3 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 204 (36.17%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.82%) Qualys
3 56 (9.93%) VMware
4 38 (6.74%) Splunk
5 28 (4.96%) Tanium
5 28 (4.96%) Tripwire
6 27 (4.79%) SolarWinds
7 26 (4.61%) Cisco
7 26 (4.61%) Rapid7
8 23 (4.08%) Citrix
9 22 (3.90%) NetApp
10 18 (3.19%) ServiceNow
11 16 (2.84%) Alibaba
12 14 (2.48%) Thycotic
13 13 (2.30%) Palo Alto
14 12 (2.13%) Apple
14 12 (2.13%) Google
15 9 (1.60%) Juniper
16 7 (1.24%) IBM
16 7 (1.24%) Kenna