Security Hardening Job Trends in Berkshire

Security Hardening
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 118 146
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 +27
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 7 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.28% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £82,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +43.48% +4.55% +55.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,811 1,400 2,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.64% 92.17% 85.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,133 515 1,851
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Hardening relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Security Hardening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. 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
Reading +2 7 £82,500 - 1
Security Hardening
South East

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (71.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
1 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 4 (57.14%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) JSON
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (57.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Auto-Scaling
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Issue Tracking
2 4 (57.14%) Secrets Management
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) OWASP
4 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Groovy
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) CCNA
3 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) GCIA
3 2 (28.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) AppDynamics
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian