Security Hardening Jobs in London

Security Hardening
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 485 579
Rank change year-on-year +106 +94 +306
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 20 30 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.12% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.14% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 20 23 29
10th Percentile £67,125 £72,750 -
25th Percentile £68,438 £76,063 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £100,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +207.69% -34.05%
75th Percentile £79,688 £102,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,500 £56,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £59,500 £35,400
% change year-on-year +17.65% +68.08% -30.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,261 21,940 30,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.11% 89.87% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6,959 15,979 22,106
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in London

Security Hardening
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Central London +37 6 £90,000 +20.00%
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (20.00%) IaaS
3 4 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 4 (20.00%) PaaS
3 4 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Metasploit
1 1 (5.00%) Postman
1 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (85.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Identity Management Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) PowerShell Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Server Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) OAuth
2 5 (25.00%) LDAP
2 5 (25.00%) OpenID
2 5 (25.00%) REST
2 5 (25.00%) SailPoint
2 5 (25.00%) SAML
3 1 (5.00%) JWT
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Clustering
2 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (25.00%) PKI
2 5 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
1 10 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (45.00%) Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (15.00%) Solaris
6 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 13 (65.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (55.00%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (40.00%) High Availability
5 7 (35.00%) Data Security
6 6 (30.00%) Agile
6 6 (30.00%) Analytics
6 6 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (30.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) RBAC
6 6 (30.00%) SIEM
7 5 (25.00%) Identity Management
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (25.00%) Log Analytics
7 5 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
7 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 5 (25.00%) Project Management
7 5 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (45.00%) Bash
2 9 (45.00%) Perl
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) CISM
1 5 (25.00%) CISSP
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) GDPR
2 9 (45.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Ansible
2 7 (35.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (25.00%) QRadar
3 5 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (30.00%) Splunk
4 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 4 (20.00%) EMC
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle
5 4 (20.00%) TOWER Software
5 4 (20.00%) VMware