Security Hardening Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 705 719
Rank change year-on-year +150 +14 +105
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 18 54 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.076% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.091% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 13 41 16
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £33,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £43,227 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +33.02% -15.65% +0.99%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,750 £60,313
90th Percentile - £62,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £35,400
% change year-on-year +16.67% +69.49% -26.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,295 59,625 57,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.88% 84.00% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,237 41,241 29,486
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 11 May 2025.

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 11 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
South East +98 8 £57,500 -4.17% 21
North of England +56 4 £57,500 +53.33% 2
East of England +38 4 £40,000 -36.00% 3
Yorkshire +66 3 - - 1
Midlands +62 1 - - 3
West Midlands +57 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £57,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
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 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) Mimecast
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (72.22%) DHCP
1 13 (72.22%) DNS
2 9 (50.00%) SAN
3 8 (44.44%) VSAN
4 7 (38.89%) NAS
4 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
5 6 (33.33%) Firewall
6 5 (27.78%) VPN
7 4 (22.22%) LAN
7 4 (22.22%) WAN
8 2 (11.11%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Support Specialist
1 6 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Virtualisation Specialist
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Specialist
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Project Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (11.11%) LPAR
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (22.22%) Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) High Availability
2 7 (38.89%) Configuration Management
2 7 (38.89%) Task Automation
2 7 (38.89%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 6 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 4 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.11%) Validation
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CEH
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
2 7 (38.89%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) PowerHA
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Ansible
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 7 (38.89%) Puppet
3 7 (38.89%) vCenter Server
4 6 (33.33%) PowerCLI
4 6 (33.33%) vMotion
4 6 (33.33%) vRealize
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (22.22%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (16.67%) Terraform
8 2 (11.11%) Packer
9 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (5.56%) Nessus
9 1 (5.56%) OpenVAS
9 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
9 1 (5.56%) QRadar
9 1 (5.56%) SCOM
9 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 6 (33.33%) Citrix
3 6 (33.33%) HP
3 6 (33.33%) Veeam
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 3 (16.67%) IBM
5 2 (11.11%) Google
5 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.11%) Splunk
6 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (5.56%) ArcSight
6 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle
6 1 (5.56%) Qualys
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.56%) Tanium