Security Hardening Jobs in the South East

Security Hardening
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Security Hardening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Hardening over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 392 482
Rank change year-on-year +20 +90 -111
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 13 22 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.078% 0.15% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.15% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £41,900 £32,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £44,000 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,400 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -57.09% +32.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £60,500 £57,300 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £35,200 £50,000
% change year-on-year +70.45% -29.60% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Security Hardening is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,111 14,259 18,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.82% 94.49% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,939 8,272 12,089
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram 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 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +8 5 £60,000 +69.49% 1
West Sussex - 5 £50,000 -
Berkshire +6 4 - - 1
Surrey +6 3 £43,000 -9.47%
Oxfordshire - 1 £60,000 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) 1Password
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP PLM
1 1 (7.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) IaaS
2 6 (46.15%) PaaS
2 6 (46.15%) SaaS
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) BGP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) IPsec
2 3 (23.08%) OSPF
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Information Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Information Security Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Security Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Middleware
1 6 (46.15%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
1 6 (46.15%) Operational Technology
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) VMS
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Information Security
2 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (46.15%) Cryptography
3 6 (46.15%) Information Security Management
3 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 6 (46.15%) Project Governance
3 6 (46.15%) Security Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Security Management
3 6 (46.15%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 6 (46.15%) Threat Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) Threat Management
3 6 (46.15%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (15.38%) Change Control
5 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Groovy
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Perl
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (46.15%) COBIT
2 6 (46.15%) NIST
2 6 (46.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Nessus
2 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (15.38%) WSUS
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Packer
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) Juniper
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) SAP