Security Hardening Jobs in the City of London

Security Hardening
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Security Hardening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Hardening over the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 167 216
Rank change year-on-year +29 +49 +96
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 7 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.36% 0.034% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.036% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - £92,750
25th Percentile - £72,500 £93,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% +80.95%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £96,875
90th Percentile £102,000 - £97,250
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% +76.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,846 2,745 4,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.80% 92.36% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 2,081 3,336
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,147 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £116,875
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the City of London

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in the City of London.

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the City of London

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (71.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Kerberos
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Identity Management Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) LDAP
1 5 (71.43%) OAuth
1 5 (71.43%) OpenID
1 5 (71.43%) SailPoint
1 5 (71.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Onboarding
1 5 (71.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (71.43%) Identity Management
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (71.43%) Log Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 5 (71.43%) Privileged Identity Management
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (71.43%) Project Management
1 5 (71.43%) RBAC
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
1 5 (71.43%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
2 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISM
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) QRadar
1 5 (71.43%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk