Security Hardening Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Security Hardening
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Security Hardening skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 3 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.072% - 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £37,500
75th Percentile £83,750 - £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £82,500 - £37,500

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,850 1,402 1,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.54% 90.51% 78.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 804 1,204
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £74,990 £70,834 £69,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,125 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.75% -5.00% -4.76%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Security Hardening job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Security Hardening.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Security Hardening

Security Hardening
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 August 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
Leeds - 3 £82,500 - 1
Security Hardening
Yorkshire

Security Hardening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Groovy
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) IBM