Security Hardening Job Trends in the West Midlands

Security Hardening
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 - 238
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 3 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.038% - 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% - 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £43,227
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.60%
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% +71.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,871 3,002 5,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 74.33% 89.56% 83.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,434 1,694 4,522
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,754 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,875 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Hardening relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Security Hardening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Birmingham - 1 £65,000 -
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IAM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Stability
2 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft