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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 777 826 1183
Rank change year-on-year +49 +357 -231
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 65 61 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.076% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.079% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 44 42 30
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £102,500 £66,875 £59,750
90th Percentile - £93,500 £84,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,864 £55,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -22.07% +7.32% -6.82%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Top 11 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 26 July 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
England +43 64 £52,500 +9.38% 3
London +90 33 £100,000 +185.71% 2
UK excluding London -31 31 £42,864 -22.07% 3
Work from Home +40 17 £100,000 +135.29% 3
South West +8 15 £52,500 -22.22% 2
North of England +9 11 £37,500 -21.05% 1
Yorkshire +55 6 £37,500 -
North East -8 5 £36,000 -24.21%
Midlands - 4 £43,227 -
West Midlands - 4 £43,227 -
South East -20 1 - -

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 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Ripple
2 1 (1.54%) SAP PLM
2 1 (1.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.08%) AWS
2 19 (29.23%) GCP
3 15 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
4 13 (20.00%) Azure
5 6 (9.23%) SaaS
6 5 (7.69%) Nutanix
7 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.15%) OCI
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.54%) Serverless
9 1 (1.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.08%) Network Security
2 12 (18.46%) Firewall
3 9 (13.85%) NAS
4 8 (12.31%) VSAN
5 7 (10.77%) DNS
6 6 (9.23%) DHCP
6 6 (9.23%) VPN
7 5 (7.69%) Internet
7 5 (7.69%) SSL
7 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
8 4 (6.15%) RTP
8 4 (6.15%) SAN
8 4 (6.15%) VLAN
9 1 (1.54%) BGP
9 1 (1.54%) IPsec
9 1 (1.54%) LAN
9 1 (1.54%) OSPF
9 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.54%) SNMP
9 1 (1.54%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) InfluxDB
2 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.08%) Dremio
3 2 (3.08%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (43.08%) Git
2 15 (23.08%) Artifactory
3 14 (21.54%) Jenkins
4 12 (18.46%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 28 (43.08%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (23.08%) Financial Institution
3 15 (23.08%) Law
4 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Police
7 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.08%) Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (24.62%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 16 (24.62%) Security Engineer
2 16 (24.62%) Senior
3 15 (23.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (23.08%) Senior Security Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Analyst
5 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Server Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) ICT Officer
8 2 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) XMPP
2 1 (1.54%) CSS
2 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.54%) HTML
2 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 18 (27.69%) Blockchain
2 18 (27.69%) Clustering
3 16 (24.62%) Replication
4 15 (23.08%) Product Ownership
5 8 (12.31%) Management Information System
6 5 (7.69%) Private Cloud
7 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
7 4 (6.15%) PKI
7 4 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
9 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.54%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.15%) Linux
2 23 (35.38%) Windows
3 16 (24.62%) Windows Server
4 14 (21.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (18.46%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (15.38%) Solaris
6 10 (15.38%) Windows 10
7 5 (7.69%) VMS
8 4 (6.15%) Debian
9 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (43.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (36.92%) DevOps
5 19 (29.23%) Change Management
6 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (26.15%) Performance Tuning
6 17 (26.15%) Vulnerability Management
7 16 (24.62%) Information Security
8 15 (23.08%) Risk Analysis
8 15 (23.08%) User Experience
9 14 (21.54%) High Availability
10 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 13 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (18.46%) Agile
11 12 (18.46%) Proactive Monitoring
12 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
12 11 (16.92%) Server Management
13 9 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 36 (55.38%) Python
2 18 (27.69%) PowerShell
3 17 (26.15%) Bash
4 13 (20.00%) C#
5 4 (6.15%) Java
6 3 (4.62%) Go
6 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.08%) Perl
8 1 (1.54%) Groovy
8 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.54%) SQL
8 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) CCNA
1 19 (29.23%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (23.08%) CCNP
2 15 (23.08%) CEH
2 15 (23.08%) CISA
2 15 (23.08%) CISSP
2 15 (23.08%) CRISC
3 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (15.38%) Degree
5 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
6 8 (12.31%) MCSA
7 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
8 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
8 4 (6.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (6.15%) MCP
8 4 (6.15%) MCSE
9 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (7.69%) SOC 1
2 5 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.54%) NCSC
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 25 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (26.15%) Docker
3 14 (21.54%) Active Directory
4 12 (18.46%) vSphere
5 5 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (4.62%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (3.08%) Ceph
8 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (32.31%) Ansible
2 17 (26.15%) Terraform
3 16 (24.62%) Kubernetes
4 8 (12.31%) SCCM
5 7 (10.77%) Grafana
6 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
7 5 (7.69%) Puppet
7 5 (7.69%) vCenter Server
8 4 (6.15%) Istio
8 4 (6.15%) Podman
8 4 (6.15%) WSUS
9 3 (4.62%) Salt
10 2 (3.08%) Kibana
10 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.54%) Graphite
11 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
11 1 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (1.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (38.46%) VMware
2 20 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 13 (20.00%) Oracle
4 12 (18.46%) Serena
5 6 (9.23%) Cisco
6 5 (7.69%) Google
7 4 (6.15%) Dell
7 4 (6.15%) HP
7 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
7 4 (6.15%) Veeam
8 3 (4.62%) EMC
9 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.54%) Juniper
9 1 (1.54%) Meraki
9 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.54%) Qualys
9 1 (1.54%) SAP
9 1 (1.54%) TOWER Software