vulnerability management jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-10-15, vulnerability management appears in 2,721 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Security Engineer has the most postings mentioning vulnerability management, with demand share up 12.8% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-15
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Frequently asked questions about vulnerability management
+Is vulnerability management in demand in 2026?
Yes. vulnerability management appears in 2,721 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-10-15. Security Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning vulnerability management (16.7% of all postings mentioning vulnerability management).
+What jobs require vulnerability management?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-10-15, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning vulnerability management are Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) (51.9% of that role’s postings mention vulnerability management), Application Security Manager (50.0% of that role’s postings mention vulnerability management), Vulnerability Management Engineer (44.8% of that role’s postings mention vulnerability management).
+What skills are commonly paired with vulnerability management?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-10-15), vulnerability management most often appears alongside incident response, AWS, threat modeling, SIEM, Python.
+Where is vulnerability management most in demand?
As of 2026-10-15, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring vulnerability management are New York City, San Francisco, Bengaluru, London, Boston, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new vulnerability management content and jobs?
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+Which skills come before and after vulnerability management?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring vulnerability management — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths around vulnerability management
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before vulnerability management
Skills after vulnerability management
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: Azure | 7 |
| Before: NIST | 6 |
| Before: AWS | 6 |
| Before: incident response | 5 |
| Before: Splunk | 5 |
| Before: python | 4 |
| Before: ISO 27001 | 4 |
| Before: Penetration Testing | 4 |
| After: incident response | 5 |
| After: NIST | 4 |
| After: Nessus | 4 |
| After: Compliance | 4 |
| After: SIEM | 4 |
| After: risk assessments | 3 |
| After: Threat Hunting | 3 |
| After: docker | 3 |
Roles most likely to require vulnerability management
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) | 14 | 51.9% |
| Application Security Manager | 10 | 50.0% |
| Vulnerability Management Engineer | 13 | 44.8% |
| Information Security Director | 18 | 40.9% |
| Cybersecurity Director | 10 | 37.0% |
| IT Security Engineer | 22 | 36.1% |
| SOC Analyst | 9 | 33.3% |
| Corporate Security Engineer | 7 | 33.3% |
| Information Security Manager | 36 | 31.6% |
| Chief Information Security Officer | 21 | 30.4% |
Roles with the most vulnerability management postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Security Engineer | 454 | 16.7% |
| Cybersecurity Engineer | 99 | 3.6% |
| Application Security Engineer | 96 | 3.5% |
| Software Engineer | 83 | 3.1% |
| Security Analyst | 69 | 2.5% |
| Product Security Engineer | 68 | 2.5% |
| Information Security Engineer | 60 | 2.2% |
| Cyber Security Engineer | 51 | 1.9% |
| DevSecOps Engineer | 51 | 1.9% |
| Information Security Analyst | 51 | 1.9% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring vulnerability management
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Cisco | 31 |
| EverAI | 26 |
| Samsara | 19 |
| Kyndryl | 16 |
| General Dynamics Information Technology | 15 |
| CACI | 13 |
| Mastercard | 13 |
| Accenture Federal Services | 13 |
| Eurofins | 11 |
| City of New York | 11 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for vulnerability management
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 88 | 3.2% |
| San Francisco | 71 | 2.6% |
| Bengaluru | 62 | 2.3% |
| London | 50 | 1.8% |
| Boston | 34 | 1.2% |
| Toronto | 30 | 1.1% |
| Pune | 29 | 1.1% |
| Washington | 27 | 1.0% |
| Austin | 25 | 0.9% |
Skills commonly paired with vulnerability management
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- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
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- Information Security Director
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- Corporate Security Engineer
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- Python
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-10-15. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning vulnerability management by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s vulnerability management postings by all vulnerability management postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.8% to 0.9%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,614 identified employers and covers 71% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-16 to 2026-09-14 and 2026-07-14 to 2026-10-12 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
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