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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 761 849
Rank change year-on-year +137 +88 +252
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 35 74 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.072% 0.083% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.099% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 30 66 43
10th Percentile £49,350 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £35,400
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +69.49% -30.93%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,219 £53,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £60,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £35,400
% change year-on-year +16.67% +69.49% -29.90%

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 45,650 74,784 82,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.04% 84.16% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22,641 54,521 49,313
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,334
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 2025. 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 +91 19 £72,500 -27.50% 5
South East +102 8 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North of England +37 4 £57,500 +53.33% 3
Yorkshire +57 3 - - 3
East of England +40 3 £44,000 -29.60% 9
Midlands +57 1 - -
West Midlands +53 1 - -
North West - 1 £57,500 -
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 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) Entra ID
3 6 (17.14%) GCP
4 5 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (11.43%) IaaS
5 4 (11.43%) Nutanix
5 4 (11.43%) PaaS
5 4 (11.43%) SaaS
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) DHCP
1 10 (28.57%) DNS
1 10 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 8 (22.86%) SAN
2 8 (22.86%) VSAN
3 6 (17.14%) NAS
4 5 (14.29%) Kerberos
5 3 (8.57%) Firewall
6 2 (5.71%) LAN
6 2 (5.71%) PuTTY
6 2 (5.71%) VPN
6 2 (5.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.86%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
2 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
2 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Support Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Support Specialist
3 6 (17.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 6 (17.14%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) VMware Specialist
3 6 (17.14%) VMware Support Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Identity Management Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) PowerShell Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Server Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Project Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) OAuth
1 6 (17.14%) REST
1 6 (17.14%) SAML
2 5 (14.29%) LDAP
2 5 (14.29%) OpenID
2 5 (14.29%) SailPoint
3 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.86%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) JWT
4 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Clustering
2 7 (20.00%) Replication
3 6 (17.14%) PKI
4 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.71%) LPAR
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (60.00%) Windows
2 20 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 11 (31.43%) Linux
4 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (8.57%) Solaris
7 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 15 (42.86%) High Availability
2 14 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (37.14%) DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.86%) SIEM
5 8 (22.86%) Task Automation
6 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 6 (17.14%) Analytics
7 6 (17.14%) Data Security
7 6 (17.14%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (17.14%) Identity Management
7 6 (17.14%) Incident Management
7 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (17.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 6 (17.14%) Scrum
7 6 (17.14%) Virtual Environments
7 6 (17.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) PowerShell
2 11 (31.43%) Python
3 10 (28.57%) Perl
4 9 (25.71%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) Groovy
5 1 (2.86%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (17.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (14.29%) CISM
4 5 (14.29%) CISSP
5 1 (2.86%) CEH
5 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.86%) MCSA
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) GDPR
2 8 (22.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.86%) NCSC
5 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
2 11 (31.43%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (20.00%) Docker
5 6 (17.14%) Hyper-V
5 6 (17.14%) vSphere
6 2 (5.71%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 22 (62.86%) Ansible
2 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (20.00%) Puppet
3 7 (20.00%) Terraform
3 7 (20.00%) vCenter Server
4 6 (17.14%) PowerCLI
4 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (17.14%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (17.14%) vMotion
4 6 (17.14%) vRealize
5 5 (14.29%) QRadar
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (5.71%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (5.71%) Packer
8 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.86%) Nessus
8 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (31.43%) VMware
3 9 (25.71%) Red Hat
4 7 (20.00%) Splunk
5 6 (17.14%) Citrix
5 6 (17.14%) HP
5 6 (17.14%) Veeam
6 5 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 4 (11.43%) EMC
7 4 (11.43%) Oracle
7 4 (11.43%) TOWER Software
8 3 (8.57%) IBM
9 2 (5.71%) Cisco
9 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
10 1 (2.86%) ArcSight
10 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
10 1 (2.86%) Google
10 1 (2.86%) Tanium