Server Hardening Job Trends in England

Server Hardening
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Server Hardening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 668 657
Rank change year-on-year +64 -11 +234
Permanent jobs citing Server Hardening 2 5 18
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.004% 0.010% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.011% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 18
10th Percentile - - £54,100
25th Percentile £87,500 £45,000 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -13.04% +25.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £55,000 £76,075
90th Percentile - - £97,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +80.00% -13.04% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Server 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 42,678 44,368 42,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.92% 90.27% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,472 22,014 32,621
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Server Hardening job vacancy trend in England

Server Hardening
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Hardening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Server Hardening

Server 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 Server Hardening within the England region over the 6 months to 3 January 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 £90,000 - 1
Server Hardening
UK

Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) VxRail
2 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware