Security Hardening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 813 908 1163
Rank change year-on-year +95 +255 -271
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 83 67 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.067% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.070% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 68 48 29
10th Percentile £36,250 - £34,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £36,450 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.61% -27.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £81,156 £55,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £68,750 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,227 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -21.41% +7.84% -7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Top 13 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 14 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
England +100 82 £60,000 +69.49% 8
UK excluding London +10 53 £43,227 -21.41% 7
Work from Home +72 32 £79,125 +143.46% 5
London +123 29 £90,000 +176.92% 2
South West -7 23 £59,500 -11.85%
North of England +37 11 £37,500 -21.05%
South East -2 11 £60,000 +17.07% 5
North East -1 7 £36,000 -24.21%
East of England +3 5 £62,500 - 2
Yorkshire +86 4 £37,500 -
West Midlands +8 4 £43,227 -47.60%
Midlands +7 4 £43,227 -47.60%
Scotland - 1 - - 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 13 (15.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) SAP PLM
1 6 (7.23%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.76%) Azure
2 24 (28.92%) AWS
3 14 (16.87%) GCP
4 13 (15.66%) SaaS
5 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
6 9 (10.84%) IaaS
7 7 (8.43%) PaaS
8 6 (7.23%) Power Platform
9 5 (6.02%) Nutanix
10 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.82%) OCI
11 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.41%) Mimecast
12 2 (2.41%) Serverless
13 1 (1.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.12%) Firewall
2 21 (25.30%) DNS
3 17 (20.48%) TCP/IP
4 14 (16.87%) Internet
5 11 (13.25%) NAS
6 10 (12.05%) SNMP
6 10 (12.05%) tcpdump
6 10 (12.05%) VPN
7 9 (10.84%) Network Security
8 8 (9.64%) VSAN
9 6 (7.23%) DHCP
10 5 (6.02%) SSL
11 4 (4.82%) RTP
11 4 (4.82%) SAN
11 4 (4.82%) VLAN
12 3 (3.61%) 4G
12 3 (3.61%) 5G
12 3 (3.61%) BGP
12 3 (3.61%) IPsec
12 3 (3.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (12.05%) MongoDB
1 10 (12.05%) MySQL
2 6 (7.23%) InfluxDB
2 6 (7.23%) Power BI
3 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.41%) Dremio
4 2 (2.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (28.92%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.87%) Git
3 12 (14.46%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.41%) JIRA
5 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.87%) Finance
4 10 (12.05%) Telecoms
5 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.02%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.82%) Police
9 2 (2.41%) Banking
10 1 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Senior
3 12 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (12.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 9 (10.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Analyst
7 7 (8.43%) ICT Officer
7 7 (8.43%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (7.23%) Implementation Manager
9 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Site Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (12.05%) YAML
3 6 (7.23%) CSS
3 6 (7.23%) HTML
3 6 (7.23%) Middleware
3 6 (7.23%) Web Services
4 4 (4.82%) XMPP
5 1 (1.20%) JSON
5 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.20%) REST
5 1 (1.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.53%) Clustering
2 16 (19.28%) Replication
3 14 (16.87%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.43%) PKI
5 6 (7.23%) Operational Technology
6 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
6 5 (6.02%) Onboarding
6 5 (6.02%) Private Cloud
6 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.61%) Blockchain
8 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.41%) CMDB
9 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
9 2 (2.41%) Smartcard
9 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.20%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 46 (55.42%) Linux
2 42 (50.60%) Windows
3 22 (26.51%) Windows Server
4 15 (18.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (14.46%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (12.05%) Solaris
6 10 (12.05%) Windows 10
7 8 (9.64%) VMS
8 4 (4.82%) Debian
9 2 (2.41%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.41%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.20%) Unix
10 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.55%) High Availability
2 28 (33.73%) Agile
3 27 (32.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (31.33%) Performance Tuning
5 25 (30.12%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
7 22 (26.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (24.10%) Containerisation
8 20 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (22.89%) DevOps
10 18 (21.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (19.28%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (19.28%) ITIL
12 14 (16.87%) Time Management
13 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
13 13 (15.66%) Project Delivery
13 13 (15.66%) Server Management
14 12 (14.46%) Proactive Monitoring
15 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.55%) PowerShell
2 31 (37.35%) Python
3 26 (31.33%) Bash
4 18 (21.69%) C#
5 12 (14.46%) Perl
6 7 (8.43%) SQL
7 6 (7.23%) VBA
8 5 (6.02%) Java
9 3 (3.61%) Go
9 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.41%) Groovy
10 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.20%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Degree
2 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
3 13 (15.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
5 8 (9.64%) MCSA
6 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.23%) DBS Check
6 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.82%) CCNA
7 4 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (4.82%) MCP
7 4 (4.82%) MCSE
8 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.43%) PCI DSS
3 6 (7.23%) COBIT
3 6 (7.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (7.23%) NIST
4 5 (6.02%) SOC 1
4 5 (6.02%) SOC 2
5 4 (4.82%) NCSC
6 2 (2.41%) QA
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 33 (39.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (33.73%) Docker
3 25 (30.12%) Active Directory
4 14 (16.87%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (16.87%) vSphere
5 9 (10.84%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (8.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.41%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 31 (37.35%) Ansible
2 27 (32.53%) Terraform
3 19 (22.89%) Kubernetes
4 18 (21.69%) Grafana
5 16 (19.28%) vCenter Server
6 14 (16.87%) Puppet
7 10 (12.05%) Graphite
7 10 (12.05%) HAProxy
7 10 (12.05%) Nagios
8 8 (9.64%) SCCM
9 6 (7.23%) Prometheus
9 6 (7.23%) WSUS
10 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (4.82%) Istio
11 4 (4.82%) Podman
12 3 (3.61%) Salt
13 2 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (2.41%) Kibana
13 2 (2.41%) Nessus
13 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 33 (39.76%) VMware
2 23 (27.71%) Microsoft
3 18 (21.69%) Oracle
4 12 (14.46%) Serena
5 10 (12.05%) Cisco
6 7 (8.43%) EMC
7 6 (7.23%) Dell
7 6 (7.23%) Google
7 6 (7.23%) SAP
8 5 (6.02%) HP
8 5 (6.02%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.82%) Juniper
9 4 (4.82%) Veeam
10 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.41%) BMC
10 2 (2.41%) Meraki
10 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.41%) Sparx
10 2 (2.41%) Splunk
11 1 (1.20%) Apple