Security Hardening Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 706 719 821
Rank change year-on-year +13 +102 -164
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 54 32 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.053% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.056% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 41 17 13
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,700
25th Percentile £38,250 £35,400 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,750 £57,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £74,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £35,400 £46,065
% change year-on-year +69.49% -23.15% -16.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,635 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.05% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,208 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West -8 23 £59,500 -11.85% 2
North of England +45 11 £37,500 -21.05%
South East +6 11 £60,000 +44.75% 2
North East +3 7 £36,000 -24.21%
East of England +13 6 £62,500 - 2
Yorkshire +79 4 £37,500 -
West Midlands +14 4 £43,227 -47.60%
Midlands +6 4 £43,227 -47.60%
Scotland - 2 - - 1
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (24.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (11.11%) SAP PLM
1 6 (11.11%) Teamcenter
2 2 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) SaaS
3 8 (14.81%) IaaS
4 6 (11.11%) PaaS
4 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.26%) AWS
5 5 (9.26%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.70%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) Firewall
2 11 (20.37%) NAS
3 9 (16.67%) DNS
3 9 (16.67%) VPN
4 8 (14.81%) Network Security
4 8 (14.81%) VSAN
5 6 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 5 (9.26%) DHCP
6 5 (9.26%) SSL
7 4 (7.41%) Internet
7 4 (7.41%) RTP
7 4 (7.41%) SAN
7 4 (7.41%) VLAN
8 3 (5.56%) 4G
8 3 (5.56%) 5G
8 3 (5.56%) BGP
8 3 (5.56%) IPsec
8 3 (5.56%) OSPF
8 3 (5.56%) WAN
9 2 (3.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.85%) Git
1 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.85%) JIRA
1 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (9.26%) Aerospace
5 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Police
6 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) ICT Officer
2 7 (12.96%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
3 6 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
4 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (7.41%) Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Server Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) IT Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Network Communications Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Network Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Lead
7 2 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) CSS
1 6 (11.11%) HTML
1 6 (11.11%) Middleware
1 6 (11.11%) Web Services
2 4 (7.41%) XMPP
3 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.85%) JSON
3 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Management Information System
2 7 (12.96%) PKI
3 6 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 6 (11.11%) Operational Technology
4 5 (9.26%) Clustering
4 5 (9.26%) Private Cloud
4 5 (9.26%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.41%) Replication
5 4 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.70%) CMDB
6 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.70%) Smartcard
6 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (50.00%) Windows
2 23 (42.59%) Linux
3 18 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 7 (12.96%) VMS
6 6 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (7.41%) Debian
8 2 (3.70%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (29.63%) ITIL
3 14 (25.93%) Agile
4 13 (24.07%) Computer Science
4 13 (24.07%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (24.07%) Project Delivery
4 13 (24.07%) Server Management
5 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 10 (18.52%) High Availability
7 9 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
7 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.96%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (12.96%) Cryptography
9 6 (11.11%) Information Security
9 6 (11.11%) PLM
9 6 (11.11%) Project Governance
9 6 (11.11%) Security Architecture
9 6 (11.11%) Security Management
9 6 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.11%) C#
2 6 (11.11%) SQL
2 6 (11.11%) VBA
3 5 (9.26%) Python
4 4 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (3.70%) C
6 1 (1.85%) Groovy
6 1 (1.85%) Java
6 1 (1.85%) Perl
6 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.07%) Degree
2 13 (24.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.81%) MCSA
5 6 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (11.11%) DBS Check
5 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 4 (7.41%) CCNA
6 4 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (7.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (7.41%) MCP
6 4 (7.41%) MCSE
7 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (11.11%) COBIT
2 6 (11.11%) NIST
2 6 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (9.26%) SOC 1
3 5 (9.26%) SOC 2
4 3 (5.56%) NCSC
5 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 33 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (38.89%) Active Directory
3 14 (25.93%) vSphere
4 9 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (12.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (11.11%) Docker
7 5 (9.26%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) SCCM
2 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 6 (11.11%) WSUS
4 5 (9.26%) Ansible
5 4 (7.41%) Podman
5 4 (7.41%) Puppet
6 2 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (3.70%) Grafana
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.70%) Nessus
6 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.85%) Check_MK
7 1 (1.85%) Packer
7 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (61.11%) VMware
2 20 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.67%) Cisco
4 7 (12.96%) EMC
5 6 (11.11%) Dell
5 6 (11.11%) Oracle
5 6 (11.11%) SAP
6 4 (7.41%) HP
6 4 (7.41%) Juniper
6 4 (7.41%) Veeam
7 2 (3.70%) BMC
7 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.70%) Sparx
8 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.85%) IBM
8 1 (1.85%) Splunk