vulnerability management jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, vulnerability management appears in 2,316 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Security Engineer has the most postings mentioning vulnerability management, with demand down 38% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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+Is vulnerability management in demand in 2026?
Yes. vulnerability management appears in 2,316 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 38% vs the prior 4 weeks. Security Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning vulnerability management (16.8% of all postings mentioning vulnerability management).
+What jobs require vulnerability management?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning vulnerability management are Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) (46.4% of that role’s postings mention vulnerability management), Vulnerability Management Engineer (44.0% of that role’s postings mention vulnerability management), Cybersecurity Director (42.9% 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 2026-09-28), vulnerability management most often appears alongside incident response, AWS, threat modeling, SIEM, Python.
+Where is vulnerability management most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, 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.
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Weekly job postings requiring vulnerability management — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
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) | 13 | 46.4% |
| Vulnerability Management Engineer | 11 | 44.0% |
| Cybersecurity Director | 12 | 42.9% |
| Information Security Director | 15 | 38.5% |
| SOC Analyst | 9 | 37.5% |
| Chief Information Security Officer | 20 | 34.5% |
| Security Program Manager | 8 | 32.0% |
| Cybersecurity Advisor | 8 | 30.8% |
| IT Security Engineer | 18 | 30.0% |
| Business Information Security Officer | 6 | 26.1% |
Roles with the most vulnerability management postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Security Engineer | 388 | 16.8% |
| Cybersecurity Engineer | 84 | 3.6% |
| Application Security Engineer | 79 | 3.4% |
| Security Analyst | 70 | 3.0% |
| Software Engineer | 70 | 3.0% |
| Product Security Engineer | 60 | 2.6% |
| Information Security Engineer | 53 | 2.3% |
| Cyber Security Engineer | 48 | 2.1% |
| DevSecOps Engineer | 47 | 2.0% |
| Cloud Security Engineer | 42 | 1.8% |
Top metros hiring for vulnerability management
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 78 | 3.4% |
| San Francisco | 61 | 2.6% |
| Bengaluru | 58 | 2.5% |
| London | 41 | 1.8% |
| Boston | 30 | 1.3% |
| Toronto | 25 | 1.1% |
| Washington | 24 | 1.0% |
| Austin | 22 | 0.9% |
| Chicago | 22 | 0.9% |
Skills commonly paired with vulnerability management
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- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
- Vulnerability Management Engineer
- Cybersecurity Director
- Information Security Director
- SOC Analyst
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Security Program Manager
- Cybersecurity Advisor
- incident response
- AWS
- threat modeling
- SIEM
- Python
- CI/CD
- Application security
- penetration testing
How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. 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).
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