Security Hardening Jobs in England

Security Hardening
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Hardening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Hardening over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 859 1099
Rank change year-on-year +112 +240 -266
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 86 68 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.073% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.077% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 68 51 27
10th Percentile £36,250 - £34,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £35,400 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +69.49% -29.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,281 £52,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £68,750 £84,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £35,400 £48,033
% change year-on-year +69.49% -26.30% -12.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Security Hardening 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,151 88,568 126,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.83% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,953 52,310 73,829
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,958 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in England.

Salary trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +118 29 £80,000 +146.15% 5
South West -1 23 £59,500 -11.85% 5
South East +3 12 £55,000 +55.37% 4
North of England +44 11 £37,500 -21.05%
East of England +15 8 £65,000 - 3
North East +2 7 £36,000 -24.21%
Yorkshire +87 4 £37,500 -
West Midlands +27 4 £43,227 -47.60%
Midlands +9 4 £43,227 -47.60%
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.98%) SAP PLM
1 6 (6.98%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (37.21%) Azure
2 24 (27.91%) AWS
3 14 (16.28%) GCP
4 13 (15.12%) Amazon S3
4 13 (15.12%) SaaS
5 9 (10.47%) IaaS
6 7 (8.14%) PaaS
7 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.81%) Nutanix
9 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.49%) OCI
10 3 (3.49%) Serverless
11 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.33%) Mimecast
12 1 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (30.23%) Firewall
2 21 (24.42%) DNS
3 17 (19.77%) TCP/IP
4 14 (16.28%) Internet
5 11 (12.79%) NAS
5 11 (12.79%) VPN
6 10 (11.63%) SNMP
6 10 (11.63%) tcpdump
7 9 (10.47%) Network Security
8 8 (9.30%) VSAN
9 5 (5.81%) DHCP
9 5 (5.81%) SSL
10 4 (4.65%) BGP
10 4 (4.65%) IPsec
10 4 (4.65%) OSPF
10 4 (4.65%) RTP
10 4 (4.65%) SAN
10 4 (4.65%) VLAN
11 3 (3.49%) 4G
11 3 (3.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (11.63%) MongoDB
1 10 (11.63%) MySQL
2 6 (6.98%) Power BI
3 5 (5.81%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.33%) Dremio
5 2 (2.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.28%) Git
3 11 (12.79%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.49%) JIRA
5 2 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 26 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Finance
4 10 (11.63%) Telecoms
5 8 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.81%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.65%) Police
9 2 (2.33%) Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (19.77%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (16.28%) Senior
3 13 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (11.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 9 (10.47%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Analyst
7 7 (8.14%) ICT Officer
7 7 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (6.98%) Implementation Manager
9 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 5 (5.81%) Site Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) IT Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (11.63%) YAML
3 6 (6.98%) CSS
3 6 (6.98%) HTML
3 6 (6.98%) Middleware
3 6 (6.98%) Web Services
4 4 (4.65%) XMPP
5 2 (2.33%) JSON
5 2 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.33%) REST
6 1 (1.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (30.23%) Clustering
2 15 (17.44%) Replication
3 14 (16.28%) Management Information System
4 8 (9.30%) Data Centre
4 8 (9.30%) PKI
5 6 (6.98%) Operational Technology
5 6 (6.98%) Public Cloud
6 5 (5.81%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.49%) Blockchain
8 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.33%) CMDB
9 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 2 (2.33%) Smartcard
10 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 49 (56.98%) Linux
2 43 (50.00%) Windows
3 23 (26.74%) Windows Server
4 16 (18.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (12.79%) Oracle Linux
6 9 (10.47%) Solaris
6 9 (10.47%) VMS
6 9 (10.47%) Windows 10
7 4 (4.65%) Debian
8 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.33%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.21%) High Availability
2 30 (34.88%) Agile
3 27 (31.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (29.07%) Performance Tuning
5 24 (27.91%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (26.74%) CI/CD
7 21 (24.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (23.26%) DevOps
9 19 (22.09%) Containerisation
10 18 (20.93%) ITIL
11 16 (18.60%) Deployment Automation
12 15 (17.44%) Computer Science
13 14 (16.28%) Server Management
13 14 (16.28%) Time Management
14 13 (15.12%) Project Delivery
15 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Monitoring
15 12 (13.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (37.21%) PowerShell
2 31 (36.05%) Python
3 25 (29.07%) Bash
4 17 (19.77%) C#
5 13 (15.12%) Perl
6 7 (8.14%) SQL
7 6 (6.98%) Java
7 6 (6.98%) VBA
8 3 (3.49%) C
8 3 (3.49%) Go
8 3 (3.49%) Groovy
8 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Degree
2 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
3 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
5 8 (9.30%) MCSA
6 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (6.98%) DBS Check
7 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.65%) CCNA
8 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (4.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (4.65%) MCP
8 4 (4.65%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.14%) PCI DSS
3 6 (6.98%) COBIT
3 6 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (6.98%) NIST
4 5 (5.81%) SOC 1
4 5 (5.81%) SOC 2
5 3 (3.49%) NCSC
5 3 (3.49%) QA
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 34 (39.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (32.56%) Docker
3 27 (31.40%) Active Directory
4 15 (17.44%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (16.28%) vSphere
6 9 (10.47%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (8.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (4.65%) Hyper-V
10 2 (2.33%) Ceph
11 1 (1.16%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 31 (36.05%) Ansible
2 27 (31.40%) Terraform
3 20 (23.26%) Kubernetes
4 18 (20.93%) Grafana
5 16 (18.60%) vCenter Server
6 14 (16.28%) Puppet
7 10 (11.63%) Graphite
7 10 (11.63%) HAProxy
7 10 (11.63%) Nagios
8 8 (9.30%) SCCM
9 7 (8.14%) WSUS
10 5 (5.81%) Prometheus
11 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (4.65%) Podman
12 3 (3.49%) Istio
12 3 (3.49%) Nessus
12 3 (3.49%) Salt
12 3 (3.49%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (2.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (39.53%) VMware
2 23 (26.74%) Microsoft
3 17 (19.77%) Oracle
4 11 (12.79%) Cisco
4 11 (12.79%) Serena
5 7 (8.14%) Dell
5 7 (8.14%) EMC
5 7 (8.14%) Red Hat
6 6 (6.98%) SAP
7 5 (5.81%) Google
7 5 (5.81%) HP
7 5 (5.81%) Juniper
8 4 (4.65%) Veeam
9 3 (3.49%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.49%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.33%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.33%) BMC
10 2 (2.33%) IBM
10 2 (2.33%) Sparx
10 2 (2.33%) Splunk