Security Hardening Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Hardening
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 239 240
Rank change year-on-year +57 +1 +41
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 1 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.029% 0.075% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.088% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £57,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £35,400
Median % change year-on-year - +69.49% -57.09%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £40,925
90th Percentile - - £50,870
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -4.17% +17.07% -29.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,221 5,669 5,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 94.04% 84.71% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 3,877 3,051
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,183 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £56,673 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.35% -9.09% -

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the Thames Valley

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the Thames Valley

Security Hardening
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Berkshire +33 1 - - 6
Security Hardening
South East

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) IBM