Security Hardening Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Security Hardening
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.055% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% - -
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 - - -
East of England median annual salary £75,000 £44,000 -
% change year-on-year +70.45% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,310 598 877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 72.38% 88.99% 77.34%
Number of salaries quoted 973 414 604
10th Percentile £30,324 £26,250 £30,422
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,000 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Security Hardening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Cambridge - 1 £90,000 - 1
Security Hardening
East of England

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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