Security Hardening Job Trends in England

Security Hardening
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 566 733
Rank change year-on-year -72 +167 +151
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 43 36 90
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.056% 0.097% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28 31 71
10th Percentile £54,563 £42,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% +71.43%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.79% +20.83% +69.49%

All Process & 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 57,814 34,565 70,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.64% 93.08% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 36,358 20,529 53,782
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,950 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in England

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Security Hardening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

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 17 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
London -2 25 £90,000 +5.88% 7
South East -33 7 £82,500 +43.48% 10
East of England -22 6 £75,000 +87.50% 3
North of England -53 6 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West -16 3 £80,000 +39.13%
Yorkshire -59 3 £82,500 -
Midlands - 2 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £65,000 - 1
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) Azure
2 20 (46.51%) AWS
3 15 (34.88%) Entra ID
4 12 (27.91%) GitHub
4 12 (27.91%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (25.58%) GCP
6 9 (20.93%) Serverless
7 8 (18.60%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
8 6 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (13.95%) Nutanix
9 5 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (9.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (9.30%) Azure Functions
10 4 (9.30%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (9.30%) Azure Storage
10 4 (9.30%) Datadog
10 4 (9.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (44.19%) Firewall
2 12 (27.91%) Network Security
3 7 (16.28%) SAN
4 6 (13.95%) VPN
5 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
5 5 (11.63%) VSAN
6 4 (9.30%) DNS
6 4 (9.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (9.30%) WAN
7 2 (4.65%) DHCP
8 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.33%) NAS
8 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 8 (18.60%) Git
2 8 (18.60%) GitLab
3 5 (11.63%) Cucumber
3 5 (11.63%) JIRA
3 5 (11.63%) SonarQube
3 5 (11.63%) TeamCity
4 4 (9.30%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.33%) LabVIEW
5 1 (2.33%) Subversion
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Retail
4 5 (11.63%) Banking
5 4 (9.30%) Back Office
5 4 (9.30%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Advertising
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Administrator
1 9 (20.93%) Linux Administrator
1 9 (20.93%) Senior
2 7 (16.28%) Analyst
2 7 (16.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 7 (16.28%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Security Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Operations Support Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Platform Support Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) YAML
2 5 (11.63%) JSON
2 5 (11.63%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (11.63%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) ADO
3 4 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (9.30%) OAuth
3 4 (9.30%) SAML
4 1 (2.33%) .NET
4 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.33%) LDAP
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
4 1 (2.33%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.30%) Blog
3 4 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) PKI
3 4 (9.30%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.33%) Clustering
6 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (51.16%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Windows
3 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
4 6 (13.95%) VMS
5 5 (11.63%) CentOS
5 5 (11.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.33%) Debian
6 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) CI/CD
2 20 (46.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (37.21%) Zero Trust
4 14 (32.56%) Containerisation
4 14 (32.56%) DevOps
4 14 (32.56%) Incident Response
5 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (27.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (23.26%) Application Security
7 10 (23.26%) Business Continuity
7 10 (23.26%) Task Automation
8 9 (20.93%) Analytics
8 9 (20.93%) Cloud Security
8 9 (20.93%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (20.93%) OWASP
8 9 (20.93%) Security Monitoring
8 9 (20.93%) Vulnerability Management
9 8 (18.60%) Migration
9 8 (18.60%) Security Testing
9 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) Bash
3 10 (23.26%) PowerShell
4 7 (16.28%) Shell Script
5 5 (11.63%) Groovy
5 5 (11.63%) Java
6 4 (9.30%) Go
6 4 (9.30%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (9.30%) Perl
6 4 (9.30%) SQL
7 1 (2.33%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) DV Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (11.63%) CISSP
3 5 (11.63%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (11.63%) GCIA
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (6.98%) CCSP
5 3 (6.98%) CISM
5 3 (6.98%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (6.98%) Degree
5 3 (6.98%) GCIH
5 3 (6.98%) OSCP
6 2 (4.65%) CCNA
6 2 (4.65%) CCNP
6 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.65%) SANS
7 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (25.58%) SOC 2
3 5 (11.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (11.63%) QA
4 4 (9.30%) GDPR
4 4 (9.30%) GRC
4 4 (9.30%) PCI DSS
5 3 (6.98%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
2 11 (25.58%) Docker
2 11 (25.58%) vSphere
3 10 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (11.63%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.98%) KVM
5 3 (6.98%) VMware NSX
6 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (53.49%) Terraform
2 20 (46.51%) Ansible
3 19 (44.19%) Kubernetes
4 5 (11.63%) VxRail
5 4 (9.30%) Cilium
5 4 (9.30%) Packer
5 4 (9.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.65%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.33%) Nagios
7 1 (2.33%) Netcool
7 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.33%) SCCM
7 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) VMware
2 16 (37.21%) Microsoft
3 9 (20.93%) Red Hat
4 6 (13.95%) Cisco
5 5 (11.63%) Dell
6 4 (9.30%) AppDynamics
6 4 (9.30%) Broadcom
6 4 (9.30%) EMC
6 4 (9.30%) IBM
6 4 (9.30%) Palo Alto
6 4 (9.30%) Zscaler
7 3 (6.98%) Commvault
7 3 (6.98%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (6.98%) Intel
7 3 (6.98%) Tenable
7 3 (6.98%) Varonis
8 1 (2.33%) Citrix
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) Sophos
8 1 (2.33%) Sybase