Vulnerability Assessment Jobs

Vulnerability Assessment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Vulnerability Assessment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 674 731 827
Rank change year-on-year +57 +96 -124
Permanent jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment 214 247 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 171 158 328
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,600 £39,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £56,000 £63,187
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% -11.37% -6.39%
75th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £94,125 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £47,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +28.95% -18.10% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Vulnerability Assessment 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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

Vulnerability Assessment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Vulnerability Assessment in the UK

Vulnerability Assessment
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Assessment within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +52 188 £70,000 +27.27% 51
UK excluding London -18 129 £61,250 +28.95% 37
London +102 79 £76,250 +6.64% 22
Work from Home +26 53 £62,500 +12.61% 32
South East -16 47 £80,000 +77.78% 11
Midlands -19 20 £47,500 - 4
North of England +46 19 £42,500 -22.73% 4
West Midlands +14 13 £48,750 -45.83% 4
Scotland -53 13 £60,000 +41.18% 2
South West -19 12 £62,500 +68.59% 5
North West +3 9 £38,250 -15.00% 3
East of England +4 8 £72,500 +31.82% 7
East Midlands -30 7 £47,500 -
Yorkshire +83 5 £60,000 -33.33%
North East - 5 £42,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 4 £46,500 - 2
Wales +10 3 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1

Vulnerability Assessment
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 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.47%) Apache
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 76 (35.51%) Azure
2 62 (28.97%) AWS
3 34 (15.89%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.88%) GCP
5 16 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (7.48%) Datadog
6 12 (5.61%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (4.21%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (2.80%) SaaS
10 5 (2.34%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.34%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.34%) PaaS
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.40%) IaaS
12 3 (1.40%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 78 (36.45%) Firewall
2 28 (13.08%) Network Security
3 27 (12.62%) Intrusion Detection
4 15 (7.01%) DNS
5 12 (5.61%) TCP/IP
6 11 (5.14%) Wireless
7 8 (3.74%) VPN
8 6 (2.80%) DHCP
9 5 (2.34%) IPsec
9 5 (2.34%) SSL
10 4 (1.87%) LAN
11 3 (1.40%) OSPF
11 3 (1.40%) SAN
11 3 (1.40%) WLAN
12 2 (0.93%) Internet
12 2 (0.93%) NAS
12 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.93%) Wireless Security
13 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.21%) Power BI
2 4 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.93%) Big Data
4 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (12.15%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.48%) GitLab
3 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.93%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.47%) MSI
4 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.47%) Snyk
4 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.96%) Finance
3 33 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.48%) Legal
5 13 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.61%) Law
7 11 (5.14%) Marketing
8 10 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.74%) Banking
9 8 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.27%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.80%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.80%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.87%) Retail
13 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 56 (26.17%) Analyst
2 41 (19.16%) Security Analyst
3 32 (14.95%) Senior
4 29 (13.55%) Lead
5 27 (12.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 26 (12.15%) Security Engineer
7 24 (11.21%) Security Manager
8 17 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.48%) Architect
9 16 (7.48%) Lead DevOps
9 16 (7.48%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.54%) Penetration Tester
11 13 (6.07%) Tester
12 11 (5.14%) Information Manager
12 11 (5.14%) Information Security Manager
13 9 (4.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Senior Penetration Tester
13 9 (4.21%) Senior Security Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Senior Tester
14 8 (3.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.48%) .NET
2 3 (1.40%) EDI
2 3 (1.40%) Sass
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.93%) REST
4 1 (0.47%) OAuth
4 1 (0.47%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.16%) Management Information System
2 38 (17.76%) Cyber Threat
3 24 (11.21%) Security Posture
4 15 (7.01%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (5.14%) PKI
6 10 (4.67%) Cyber Defence
6 10 (4.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 9 (4.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 9 (4.21%) IoT
7 9 (4.21%) Operational Technology
8 8 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.34%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (2.34%) Cyberattack
11 5 (2.34%) SCADA
12 4 (1.87%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.40%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (23.36%) Windows
2 28 (13.08%) Linux
3 16 (7.48%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.74%) Unix
5 6 (2.80%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.93%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (71.03%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (36.45%) Incident Response
3 77 (35.98%) Information Security
4 65 (30.37%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (27.57%) Penetration Testing
5 59 (27.57%) SIEM
6 43 (20.09%) Cloud Security
7 40 (18.69%) Vulnerability Management
8 36 (16.82%) Security Architecture
9 29 (13.55%) Security Operations
10 28 (13.08%) Computer Science
10 28 (13.08%) DevOps
11 26 (12.15%) CI/CD
11 26 (12.15%) ITIL
11 26 (12.15%) Threat Intelligence
12 25 (11.68%) Risk Management
13 24 (11.21%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 22 (10.28%) Business Continuity
14 22 (10.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 21 (9.81%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (14.02%) Python
2 9 (4.21%) C#
3 7 (3.27%) C
3 7 (3.27%) C++
3 7 (3.27%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.80%) Bash
5 4 (1.87%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 59 (27.57%) Degree
2 58 (27.10%) CISSP
3 37 (17.29%) CISM
4 25 (11.68%) AWS Certification
5 24 (11.21%) Security Cleared
6 22 (10.28%) CISA
7 18 (8.41%) GIAC
8 17 (7.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 16 (7.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (7.01%) CEH
11 14 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (6.54%) Master's Degree
11 14 (6.54%) SC Cleared
12 12 (5.61%) CompTIA CySA+
12 12 (5.61%) CREST Certified
12 12 (5.61%) CRISC
12 12 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (5.61%) OSCP
13 9 (4.21%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (36.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (34.11%) NIST
3 30 (14.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (11.21%) GRC
5 20 (9.35%) NCSC
6 17 (7.94%) NIST 800
7 16 (7.48%) GDPR
8 13 (6.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (5.14%) COBIT
10 9 (4.21%) PCI DSS
11 7 (3.27%) ISO 13485
11 7 (3.27%) QA
12 6 (2.80%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (2.34%) HIPAA
14 3 (1.40%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.47%) FISMA
15 1 (0.47%) GxP
15 1 (0.47%) IASME
15 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (10.28%) Docker
2 20 (9.35%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.27%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.40%) KVM
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.75%) Terraform
3 16 (7.48%) Consul
3 16 (7.48%) Puppet
4 10 (4.67%) Ansible
5 6 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.87%) CSIRT
6 4 (1.87%) Nessus
7 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.93%) Nmap
9 1 (0.47%) CASB
9 1 (0.47%) DatAdvantage
9 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.47%) QRadar
9 1 (0.47%) SCCM
9 1 (0.47%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.47%) WMI
9 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (29.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.61%) Google
3 9 (4.21%) Alibaba
3 9 (4.21%) VMware
4 6 (2.80%) Cisco
5 5 (2.34%) Qualys
6 4 (1.87%) Intel
7 3 (1.40%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.40%) Splunk
8 2 (0.93%) CA
8 2 (0.93%) Meraki
8 2 (0.93%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.47%) arcserve
9 1 (0.47%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (0.47%) Dell
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.47%) Symantec
9 1 (0.47%) Veeam