Security Hardening Jobs in the South East

Security Hardening
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 392 364
Rank change year-on-year +93 -28 +129
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 8 4 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.082% 0.022% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.026% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 10
10th Percentile - - £35,400
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £38,113
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile - - £64,000
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
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,924 15,154 12,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.69% 82.41% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,409 10,313 7,591
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
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 the South East

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the South East

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in the South East.

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the South East

Security Hardening
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Hampshire - 6 £57,500 - 3
Thames Valley +63 1 - - 4
Berkshire +33 1 - - 3
Surrey - 1 £57,500 -
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DHCP
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) NAS
2 6 (75.00%) SAN
2 6 (75.00%) VSAN
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Support Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Support Specialist
1 6 (75.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Specialist
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (75.00%) High Availability
1 6 (75.00%) Incident Management
1 6 (75.00%) Task Automation
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Environments
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (12.50%) BCP
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
1 7 (87.50%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 6 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) vCenter Server
3 6 (75.00%) PowerCLI
3 6 (75.00%) Puppet
3 6 (75.00%) vMotion
3 6 (75.00%) vRealize
4 2 (25.00%) Packer
4 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Citrix
2 6 (75.00%) HP
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Tanium