Security Hardening Jobs

Security Hardening
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 836 897
Rank change year-on-year +165 +61 +256
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 38 76 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.074% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.087% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 31 67 45
10th Percentile £45,750 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £35,400
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +69.49% -29.90%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,188 £55,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £59,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £43,227 £51,250
% change year-on-year +33.02% -15.65% +0.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England +118 35 £70,000 +16.67% 105
London +105 19 £72,500 -27.50% 11
Work from Home +106 18 £72,500 -9.09% 103
UK excluding London +164 17 £57,500 +33.02% 107
South East +91 8 £57,500 -4.17% 37
North of England +44 4 £57,500 +53.33% 23
Yorkshire +58 3 - - 14
East of England +46 3 £44,000 -29.60% 19
Midlands +83 1 - - 15
West Midlands +55 1 - - 8
North West - 1 £57,500 - 7
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) Azure
2 15 (39.47%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) GCP
4 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (10.53%) IaaS
6 4 (10.53%) Nutanix
6 4 (10.53%) PaaS
6 4 (10.53%) SaaS
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.89%) Serverless
8 2 (5.26%) Mimecast
8 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.63%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) DHCP
1 11 (28.95%) DNS
2 10 (26.32%) TCP/IP
3 9 (23.68%) SAN
4 8 (21.05%) VSAN
5 7 (18.42%) NAS
6 5 (13.16%) Kerberos
7 4 (10.53%) Firewall
8 3 (7.89%) VPN
9 2 (5.26%) LAN
9 2 (5.26%) PuTTY
9 2 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
2 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.63%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.63%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.63%) Postman
3 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (44.74%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Support Specialist
3 6 (15.79%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 6 (15.79%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) VMware Specialist
3 6 (15.79%) VMware Support Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Identity Management Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) PowerShell Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Server Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) REST
2 6 (15.79%) OAuth
2 6 (15.79%) SAML
3 5 (13.16%) LDAP
3 5 (13.16%) OpenID
3 5 (13.16%) SailPoint
4 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.89%) JSON
5 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.63%) JWT
6 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) Clustering
2 8 (21.05%) Replication
3 6 (15.79%) PKI
4 5 (13.16%) Onboarding
5 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (5.26%) LPAR
6 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (57.89%) Windows
2 21 (55.26%) Windows Server
3 14 (36.84%) Linux
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (7.89%) Solaris
7 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 16 (42.11%) High Availability
3 15 (39.47%) DevOps
3 15 (39.47%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (26.32%) Agile
4 10 (26.32%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (23.68%) SIEM
5 9 (23.68%) Task Automation
6 7 (18.42%) Configuration Management
6 7 (18.42%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 6 (15.79%) Analytics
7 6 (15.79%) Data Security
7 6 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (15.79%) Identity Management
7 6 (15.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 6 (15.79%) RBAC
7 6 (15.79%) Scrum
7 6 (15.79%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) PowerShell
2 14 (36.84%) Python
3 12 (31.58%) Perl
4 9 (23.68%) Bash
5 3 (7.89%) Groovy
5 3 (7.89%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) DV Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (18.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (13.16%) CISM
3 5 (13.16%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CCNA
4 1 (2.63%) CEH
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.63%) MCSA
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.68%) GDPR
2 8 (21.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.89%) QA
4 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (44.74%) Active Directory
2 11 (28.95%) VMware ESXi
2 11 (28.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (21.05%) Docker
4 7 (18.42%) Hyper-V
5 6 (15.79%) vSphere
6 2 (5.26%) PowerHA
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (65.79%) Ansible
2 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
3 10 (26.32%) Terraform
4 7 (18.42%) Puppet
4 7 (18.42%) vCenter Server
5 6 (15.79%) PowerCLI
5 6 (15.79%) QRadar
5 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (15.79%) vMotion
5 6 (15.79%) vRealize
6 4 (10.53%) Packer
7 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (5.26%) Nessus
9 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (2.63%) OpenVAS
9 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (55.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (31.58%) VMware
3 9 (23.68%) Red Hat
4 8 (21.05%) Splunk
5 6 (15.79%) Citrix
5 6 (15.79%) HP
5 6 (15.79%) SolarWinds
5 6 (15.79%) Veeam
6 5 (13.16%) IBM
6 5 (13.16%) Oracle
7 4 (10.53%) EMC
7 4 (10.53%) TOWER Software
8 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
8 3 (7.89%) Atlassian
8 3 (7.89%) Cisco
9 2 (5.26%) Google
9 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.63%) ArcSight
10 1 (2.63%) Qualys
10 1 (2.63%) Tanium