Security Hardening Job Trends in Belfast

Security Hardening
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.18% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

Security Hardening falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 424 186 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 77.09% 96.37% 85.13%
Number of salaries quoted 238 54 226
10th Percentile £25,500 £47,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £57,276
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +4.76% +14.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,750 £69,800
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
County Antrim median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +10.00%

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft