Security Hardening Job Trends in Cambridge

Security Hardening
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.095% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £95,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £90,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 772 326 498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 73.24% 93.95% 78.92%
Number of salaries quoted 582 223 375
10th Percentile £33,500 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,000 £45,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +2.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,000 £85,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Security Hardening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GSEC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google