Security Hardening Jobs in England

Security Hardening
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 707 705 1066
Rank change year-on-year -2 +361 -110
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 58 53 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.080% 0.089% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.094% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 30 34 25
10th Percentile £36,175 £33,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,750 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% +8.25% -6.36%
75th Percentile £102,500 £71,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £96,750 £83,000
UK median annual salary £59,500 £56,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.31% +18.95% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,349 56,149 129,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.97% 94.68% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 33,016 39,856 73,338
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in England.

Salary trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in England over the 6 months to 8 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the England region over the 6 months to 8 September 2024. 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
London +49 30 £100,000 +56.86% 2
North of England +1 17 £37,500 -21.05% 1
Yorkshire +40 12 £37,500 - 1
South East -41 9 £60,000 +9.09% 2
South West -5 5 £59,500 -11.85%
North East -22 5 £36,000 -24.21%
West Midlands - 2 £43,227 - 2
Midlands - 2 £43,227 - 3
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 31 (53.45%) AWS
2 19 (32.76%) GCP
3 15 (25.86%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (24.14%) Azure
5 7 (12.07%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.34%) Serverless
7 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (8.62%) SaaS
8 3 (5.17%) OCI
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.59%) Firewall
2 15 (25.86%) Network Security
3 9 (15.52%) DNS
4 8 (13.79%) DHCP
5 7 (12.07%) TCP/IP
6 6 (10.34%) VLAN
7 5 (8.62%) Internet
8 4 (6.90%) NAS
8 4 (6.90%) SAN
8 4 (6.90%) SSL
8 4 (6.90%) VPN
8 4 (6.90%) VSAN
9 2 (3.45%) IPv4
9 2 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (1.72%) SNMP
10 1 (1.72%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) InfluxDB
2 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (50.00%) Git
2 20 (34.48%) Artifactory
3 15 (25.86%) Jenkins
4 8 (13.79%) JIRA
4 8 (13.79%) TeamCity
5 5 (8.62%) Cucumber
5 5 (8.62%) GitLab
5 5 (8.62%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (46.55%) Finance
2 17 (29.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (25.86%) Financial Institution
3 15 (25.86%) Law
4 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.45%) Police
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Senior
2 17 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (29.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Security Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Senior Security Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Analyst
6 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (6.90%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (5.17%) ICT Officer
9 3 (5.17%) Site Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) IT Analyst
10 2 (3.45%) IT Security Analyst
10 2 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Operations Analyst
10 2 (3.45%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (8.62%) JSON
2 5 (8.62%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (8.62%) REST
3 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (34.48%) Public Cloud
2 18 (31.03%) Blockchain
3 15 (25.86%) Product Ownership
4 14 (24.14%) Clustering
5 12 (20.69%) Replication
6 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
7 6 (10.34%) Onboarding
7 6 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (8.62%) Private Cloud
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
10 2 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (3.45%) PKI
10 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
11 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 24 (41.38%) Linux
2 18 (31.03%) Windows
3 10 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (13.79%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (13.79%) Solaris
4 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
5 6 (10.34%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) DevOps
2 24 (41.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 24 (41.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (34.48%) Vulnerability Management
5 18 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (29.31%) Change Management
6 17 (29.31%) Information Security
6 17 (29.31%) Risk Analysis
7 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
7 15 (25.86%) User Experience
8 14 (24.14%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (22.41%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (15.52%) Agile
11 9 (15.52%) Computer Science
11 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (15.52%) High Availability
12 8 (13.79%) ITIL
12 8 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (60.34%) Python
2 15 (25.86%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.52%) Bash
3 9 (15.52%) Java
4 8 (13.79%) C#
5 7 (12.07%) Perl
6 6 (10.34%) Groovy
6 6 (10.34%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.17%) Go
7 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) CCNA
1 19 (32.76%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (29.31%) CISA
2 17 (29.31%) CISSP
3 15 (25.86%) CCNP
3 15 (25.86%) CEH
3 15 (25.86%) CRISC
4 13 (22.41%) Degree
5 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (10.34%) MCSA
7 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
7 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
8 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (6.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (6.90%) MCP
8 4 (6.90%) MCSE
9 2 (3.45%) CISM
9 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.45%) GCED
9 2 (3.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.62%) SOC 1
2 5 (8.62%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.45%) GDPR
3 2 (3.45%) NIST
3 2 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (18.97%) Docker
4 6 (10.34%) vSphere
5 5 (8.62%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (34.48%) Terraform
2 18 (31.03%) Ansible
3 15 (25.86%) Kubernetes
4 7 (12.07%) Grafana
4 7 (12.07%) Packer
5 6 (10.34%) Istio
5 6 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (10.34%) SCCM
6 4 (6.90%) WSUS
7 3 (5.17%) Salt
7 3 (5.17%) vCenter Server
8 2 (3.45%) CASB
8 2 (3.45%) CSIRT
9 1 (1.72%) Graphite
9 1 (1.72%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.72%) Nagios
9 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) VMware
2 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.79%) Google
3 8 (13.79%) Oracle
3 8 (13.79%) Serena
4 6 (10.34%) Atlassian
5 5 (8.62%) AppDynamics
5 5 (8.62%) Cisco
5 5 (8.62%) IBM
6 4 (6.90%) Dell
6 4 (6.90%) Veeam
7 3 (5.17%) EMC
8 2 (3.45%) Darktrace
8 2 (3.45%) HP
8 2 (3.45%) Proofpoint
8 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.45%) Thales
8 2 (3.45%) Zscaler