Security Hardening Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Hardening
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 249 268
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 -44
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 5 12 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.074% 0.20% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.21% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £33,660 -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £35,400 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +69.49% -57.09% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £37,500 £83,750
90th Percentile - £49,500 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -42.42% +32.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,697 5,690 6,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.80% 94.75% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,925 3,093 3,873
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

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 9 May 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
Berkshire +14 4 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £60,000 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PLM
1 1 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) IPsec
1 3 (60.00%) OSPF
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) VMS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Server Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Nessus
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (40.00%) WSUS
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Packer
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SAP