Security Hardening Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Hardening
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 628 824
Rank change year-on-year +84 +196 -281
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 33 35 14
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.098% 0.085% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.088% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 31 29 5
10th Percentile £43,227 - -
25th Percentile £71,875 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,750 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +145.38% -27.78% +1.12%
75th Percentile £102,500 £38,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - £55,000 £89,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £35,400 £50,000
% change year-on-year +69.49% -29.20% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,887 39,758 66,711
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,659 41,086
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Security Hardening
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Hardening trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Hardening.

Security Hardening salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Security Hardening salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) AWS
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon S3
3 10 (30.30%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) OCI
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (6.06%) IaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
6 1 (3.03%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (42.42%) DNS
2 12 (36.36%) Firewall
2 12 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 10 (30.30%) Internet
3 10 (30.30%) SNMP
3 10 (30.30%) tcpdump
4 4 (12.12%) Network Security
4 4 (12.12%) VSAN
5 3 (9.09%) 4G
5 3 (9.09%) 5G
5 3 (9.09%) VPN
6 2 (6.06%) BGP
6 2 (6.06%) IPsec
6 2 (6.06%) OSPF
6 2 (6.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (30.30%) MongoDB
1 10 (30.30%) MySQL
2 5 (15.15%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.03%) Dremio
3 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (60.61%) Jenkins
2 10 (30.30%) Git
2 10 (30.30%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 12 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 10 (30.30%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.12%) Police
5 3 (9.09%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (39.39%) Senior
3 10 (30.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) Senior DevOps
3 10 (30.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 9 (27.27%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 9 (27.27%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 9 (27.27%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 8 (24.24%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Server Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) IT Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Network Communications Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Network Systems Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) DevOps Specialist
9 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (30.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (60.61%) Clustering
2 10 (30.30%) Replication
3 7 (21.21%) PKI
4 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
4 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
5 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
6 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
6 2 (6.06%) Insider Threat
6 2 (6.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (75.76%) Linux
2 20 (60.61%) Windows
3 10 (30.30%) Oracle Linux
3 10 (30.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (30.30%) Solaris
4 7 (21.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.06%) VMS
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 22 (66.67%) High Availability
2 20 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 20 (60.61%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (60.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (60.61%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (48.48%) Agile
4 15 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 12 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (36.36%) DevOps
6 10 (30.30%) Business Continuity
6 10 (30.30%) Capacity Planning
6 10 (30.30%) Code Quality
6 10 (30.30%) Continuous Deployment
6 10 (30.30%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 10 (30.30%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (30.30%) Migration
6 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
6 10 (30.30%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) PowerShell
2 20 (60.61%) Bash
2 20 (60.61%) Python
3 10 (30.30%) C#
3 10 (30.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) MCSA
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) NCSC
1 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (66.67%) Docker
2 12 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (24.24%) Active Directory
4 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (12.12%) vSphere
6 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.03%) Ceph
7 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) Ansible
1 20 (60.61%) Terraform
2 17 (51.52%) Grafana
3 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 10 (30.30%) Graphite
4 10 (30.30%) HAProxy
4 10 (30.30%) Nagios
4 10 (30.30%) Puppet
4 10 (30.30%) vCenter Server
5 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
6 4 (12.12%) Istio
6 4 (12.12%) SCCM
7 2 (6.06%) Nessus
7 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (6.06%) WSUS
8 1 (3.03%) Check_MK
8 1 (3.03%) Kibana
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle
1 10 (30.30%) Serena
2 7 (21.21%) VMware
3 6 (18.18%) Dell
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.12%) HP
5 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
6 3 (9.09%) Cisco
6 3 (9.09%) Google
6 3 (9.09%) Juniper
6 3 (9.09%) Splunk
7 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.06%) Sparx
8 1 (3.03%) EMC
8 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.03%) Qualys
8 1 (3.03%) TOWER Software