Security Hardening Job Trends in Reading

Security Hardening
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 66 109
Rank change year-on-year +2 +43 +4
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 7 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.66% 0.39% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.46% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 796 436 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 74.95% 86.00% 86.73%
Number of salaries quoted 514 233 921
10th Percentile £33,575 £31,900 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £104,000 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £50,001 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -7.69%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in Reading

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Hardening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (71.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
1 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 4 (57.14%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) JSON
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (57.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Auto-Scaling
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Issue Tracking
2 4 (57.14%) Secrets Management
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) OWASP
4 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Groovy
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) CCNA
3 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) GCIA
3 2 (28.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) AppDynamics
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian