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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 549 624
Rank change year-on-year +138 +75 +207
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 21 34 38
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.10% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.11% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 31
10th Percentile £66,000 £43,227 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £79,875 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +145.77% -27.78%
75th Percentile £76,250 £102,500 £38,750
90th Percentile £85,000 - £55,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £35,400
% change year-on-year +16.67% +69.49% -23.15%

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 15,361 31,014 40,730
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.62% 91.60% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,801 23,557 28,305
10th Percentile £29,913 £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 7 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 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (19.05%) IaaS
4 4 (19.05%) Nutanix
4 4 (19.05%) PaaS
4 4 (19.05%) SaaS
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) 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 9 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) PowerShell Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Server Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Server Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Security Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Splunk Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure 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 7 (33.33%) Clustering
2 5 (23.81%) Replication
3 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (19.05%) Security Posture
4 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (14.29%) Solaris
6 2 (9.52%) Unix
7 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 14 (66.67%) DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (42.86%) High Availability
3 9 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (28.57%) SIEM
5 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
5 5 (23.81%) Data Security
5 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
5 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) API Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
6 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
7 3 (14.29%) Issue Tracking
7 3 (14.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Perl
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) Bash
3 6 (28.57%) 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 7 (33.33%) GDPR
1 7 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (76.19%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) 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 8 (38.10%) Red Hat
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (23.81%) Splunk
4 4 (19.05%) EMC
4 4 (19.05%) Oracle
4 4 (19.05%) TOWER Software
4 4 (19.05%) VMware
5 3 (14.29%) AppDynamics
5 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
5 3 (14.29%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) ArcSight
6 1 (4.76%) Google
6 1 (4.76%) Qualys
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow