Security Hardening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 803 924 1170
Rank change year-on-year +121 +246 -297
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 85 71 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.070% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.073% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 69 52 27
10th Percentile £36,250 - £34,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £35,400 £46,065
Median % change year-on-year +69.49% -23.15% -16.25%
75th Percentile £81,125 £55,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £68,000 £84,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,227 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.00% -5.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
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 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +95 83 £60,000 +69.49% 9
UK excluding London +13 54 £43,227 -9.00% 6
Work from Home +65 33 £79,750 +145.38% 6
London +118 29 £90,000 +176.92% 3
South West -8 23 £59,500 -11.85% 2
North of England +45 11 £37,500 -21.05%
South East +6 11 £60,000 +44.75% 2
North East +3 7 £36,000 -24.21%
East of England +13 6 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire +79 4 £37,500 -
West Midlands +14 4 £43,227 -47.60%
Midlands +6 4 £43,227 -47.60%
Scotland - 2 - - 1

Security Hardening
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 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) SAP PLM
1 6 (7.06%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.00%) Azure
2 25 (29.41%) AWS
3 14 (16.47%) GCP
4 13 (15.29%) SaaS
5 12 (14.12%) Amazon S3
6 9 (10.59%) IaaS
7 7 (8.24%) PaaS
8 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.88%) Nutanix
10 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.71%) OCI
11 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.35%) Mimecast
12 2 (2.35%) Serverless
13 1 (1.18%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (29.41%) Firewall
2 22 (25.88%) DNS
3 18 (21.18%) TCP/IP
4 14 (16.47%) Internet
5 11 (12.94%) NAS
6 10 (11.76%) Network Security
6 10 (11.76%) SNMP
6 10 (11.76%) tcpdump
6 10 (11.76%) VPN
7 8 (9.41%) VSAN
8 6 (7.06%) DHCP
9 5 (5.88%) SSL
10 4 (4.71%) RTP
10 4 (4.71%) SAN
10 4 (4.71%) VLAN
11 3 (3.53%) 4G
11 3 (3.53%) 5G
11 3 (3.53%) BGP
11 3 (3.53%) IPsec
11 3 (3.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 10 (11.76%) MySQL
2 6 (7.06%) InfluxDB
2 6 (7.06%) Power BI
3 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.35%) Dremio
4 2 (2.35%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (28.24%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.47%) Git
3 12 (14.12%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.35%) JIRA
5 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.65%) Finance
4 10 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.88%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.71%) Police
9 2 (2.35%) Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (16.47%) Senior
3 12 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 9 (10.59%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Analyst
6 8 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) ICT Officer
7 7 (8.24%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (7.06%) Implementation Manager
9 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Site Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.94%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (11.76%) YAML
3 6 (7.06%) CSS
3 6 (7.06%) HTML
3 6 (7.06%) Middleware
3 6 (7.06%) Web Services
4 4 (4.71%) XMPP
5 1 (1.18%) JSON
5 1 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.18%) REST
5 1 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.76%) Clustering
2 16 (18.82%) Replication
3 14 (16.47%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.24%) PKI
5 6 (7.06%) Data Centre
5 6 (7.06%) Operational Technology
6 5 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.88%) Private Cloud
6 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.53%) Blockchain
8 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
9 2 (2.35%) CMDB
9 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.35%) Insider Threat
9 2 (2.35%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (2.35%) Smartcard
9 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (55.29%) Linux
2 42 (49.41%) Windows
3 22 (25.88%) Windows Server
4 16 (18.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (14.12%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (11.76%) Solaris
6 10 (11.76%) Windows 10
7 8 (9.41%) VMS
8 4 (4.71%) Debian
9 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.35%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.18%) Unix
10 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.65%) High Availability
2 29 (34.12%) Agile
3 27 (31.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (31.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (30.59%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (30.59%) Performance Tuning
5 23 (27.06%) CI/CD
6 22 (25.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (22.35%) DevOps
8 19 (22.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (20.00%) ITIL
10 16 (18.82%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (16.47%) Time Management
12 13 (15.29%) Computer Science
12 13 (15.29%) Project Delivery
12 13 (15.29%) Server Management
13 12 (14.12%) Proactive Monitoring
14 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (37.65%) PowerShell
2 31 (36.47%) Python
3 26 (30.59%) Bash
4 18 (21.18%) C#
5 12 (14.12%) Perl
6 7 (8.24%) SQL
7 6 (7.06%) VBA
8 5 (5.88%) Java
9 3 (3.53%) Go
9 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.35%) C
10 2 (2.35%) Groovy
10 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Degree
2 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
3 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 8 (9.41%) MCSA
6 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.06%) DBS Check
6 6 (7.06%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.71%) CCNA
7 4 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (4.71%) MCP
7 4 (4.71%) MCSE
8 3 (3.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.24%) PCI DSS
3 6 (7.06%) COBIT
3 6 (7.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (7.06%) NIST
4 5 (5.88%) SOC 1
4 5 (5.88%) SOC 2
5 4 (4.71%) NCSC
6 2 (2.35%) QA
7 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 33 (38.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (32.94%) Docker
3 25 (29.41%) Active Directory
4 14 (16.47%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (16.47%) vSphere
5 9 (10.59%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (8.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (7.06%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (3.53%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.35%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 31 (36.47%) Ansible
2 27 (31.76%) Terraform
3 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
4 18 (21.18%) Grafana
5 16 (18.82%) vCenter Server
6 14 (16.47%) Puppet
7 10 (11.76%) Graphite
7 10 (11.76%) HAProxy
7 10 (11.76%) Nagios
8 8 (9.41%) SCCM
9 6 (7.06%) Prometheus
9 6 (7.06%) WSUS
10 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (4.71%) Istio
11 4 (4.71%) Podman
12 3 (3.53%) Salt
13 2 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (2.35%) Kibana
13 2 (2.35%) Nessus
13 2 (2.35%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 33 (38.82%) VMware
2 23 (27.06%) Microsoft
3 18 (21.18%) Oracle
4 12 (14.12%) Serena
5 10 (11.76%) Cisco
6 7 (8.24%) EMC
7 6 (7.06%) Dell
7 6 (7.06%) Google
7 6 (7.06%) Red Hat
7 6 (7.06%) SAP
8 5 (5.88%) HP
9 4 (4.71%) Juniper
9 4 (4.71%) Veeam
10 3 (3.53%) Splunk
11 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
11 2 (2.35%) BMC
11 2 (2.35%) Meraki
11 2 (2.35%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.35%) Sparx
12 1 (1.18%) Apple