Security Hardening Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Hardening
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 551 639
Rank change year-on-year +155 +88 +182
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 21 33 38
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.098% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.11% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 17 31 31
10th Percentile £66,000 £43,227 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £79,750 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +145.38% -27.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £38,750
90th Percentile - - £52,500
UK median annual salary £71,250 £60,000 £35,400
% change year-on-year +18.75% +69.49% -26.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Security Hardening
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Hardening trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Security Hardening
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Hardening.

Security Hardening salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Security Hardening salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (14.29%) IaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Nutanix
4 3 (14.29%) PaaS
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Security Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Server Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (14.29%) JSON
3 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Clustering
1 6 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 4 (19.05%) Replication
3 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (14.29%) Solaris
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (9.52%) Unix
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 12 (57.14%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (38.10%) High Availability
3 8 (38.10%) SIEM
4 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 7 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (28.57%) Security Operations
5 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) API Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Data Security
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Perl
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Bash
3 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (14.29%) Groovy
4 3 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CEH
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) MCSA
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) GDPR
1 6 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (14.29%) Packer
3 3 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
4 1 (4.76%) SCOM
4 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 7 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 3 (14.29%) EMC
3 3 (14.29%) IBM
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) TOWER Software
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) Qualys
5 1 (4.76%) ArcSight
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow