Security Hardening Jobs in England

Security Hardening
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 762 848 1095
Rank change year-on-year +86 +247 -250
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 74 61 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.070% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.074% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 66 43 28
10th Percentile £36,250 - £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £35,400 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +69.49% -30.93% -14.58%
75th Percentile £81,219 £53,750 £66,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £60,500 £84,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £35,400 £50,500
% change year-on-year +69.49% -29.90% -8.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in England.

Salary trend for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in England

Security Hardening
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +143 28 £100,000 +207.69% 2
South West -9 23 £59,500 -11.85% 1
North of England +49 11 £37,500 -21.05% 2
North East -1 7 £36,000 -24.21% 1
South East -16 5 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Yorkshire +75 4 £37,500 - 1
East of England -8 4 £62,500 - 2
Midlands - 4 £43,227 -
West Midlands - 4 £43,227 -
Security Hardening
UK

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (17.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) SAP PLM
1 6 (8.11%) Teamcenter
2 2 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.89%) Azure
2 23 (31.08%) AWS
3 13 (17.57%) GCP
4 11 (14.86%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.46%) SaaS
6 6 (8.11%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.76%) Nutanix
8 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.41%) OCI
9 3 (4.05%) IaaS
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.70%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.70%) Serverless
11 1 (1.35%) PaaS
11 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (32.43%) Firewall
2 19 (25.68%) DNS
3 16 (21.62%) TCP/IP
4 13 (17.57%) Internet
5 11 (14.86%) NAS
6 10 (13.51%) VPN
7 9 (12.16%) SNMP
7 9 (12.16%) tcpdump
8 8 (10.81%) VSAN
9 5 (6.76%) DHCP
9 5 (6.76%) SSL
10 4 (5.41%) RTP
10 4 (5.41%) SAN
10 4 (5.41%) VLAN
11 3 (4.05%) 4G
11 3 (4.05%) BGP
11 3 (4.05%) IPsec
11 3 (4.05%) Network Security
11 3 (4.05%) OSPF
11 3 (4.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (12.16%) MongoDB
1 9 (12.16%) MySQL
2 6 (8.11%) InfluxDB
2 6 (8.11%) Power BI
3 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.70%) Dremio
4 2 (2.70%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 23 (31.08%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.92%) Git
3 12 (16.22%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.70%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (18.92%) Finance
3 9 (12.16%) Telecoms
4 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.76%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.41%) Police
8 2 (2.70%) Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (17.57%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (16.22%) Senior
3 11 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (12.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 8 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) ICT Officer
6 7 (9.46%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Implementation Manager
8 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Site Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) IT Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (12.16%) YAML
3 6 (8.11%) CSS
3 6 (8.11%) HTML
4 4 (5.41%) XMPP
5 1 (1.35%) JSON
5 1 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.35%) REST
5 1 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (35.14%) Clustering
2 16 (21.62%) Replication
3 8 (10.81%) Management Information System
4 7 (9.46%) PKI
5 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.76%) Private Cloud
5 5 (6.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
6 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (4.05%) Blockchain
7 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.70%) CMDB
8 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.70%) Smartcard
8 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.35%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (59.46%) Linux
2 40 (54.05%) Windows
3 21 (28.38%) Windows Server
4 14 (18.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (16.22%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (13.51%) Solaris
7 9 (12.16%) Windows 10
8 8 (10.81%) VMS
9 4 (5.41%) Debian
10 2 (2.70%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.89%) High Availability
2 26 (35.14%) Agile
2 26 (35.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 26 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (33.78%) Performance Tuning
4 22 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 21 (28.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (25.68%) Containerisation
6 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (24.32%) DevOps
8 17 (22.97%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (21.62%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
10 13 (17.57%) Project Delivery
10 13 (17.57%) Server Management
10 13 (17.57%) Time Management
11 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 11 (14.86%) Proactive Monitoring
12 10 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) PowerShell
2 30 (40.54%) Python
3 25 (33.78%) Bash
4 18 (24.32%) C#
5 11 (14.86%) Perl
6 7 (9.46%) SQL
7 6 (8.11%) VBA
8 5 (6.76%) Java
9 3 (4.05%) Go
9 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.70%) Groovy
10 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Degree
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.81%) MCSA
5 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (8.11%) DBS Check
5 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.41%) CCNA
6 4 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (5.41%) MCP
6 4 (5.41%) MCSE
7 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.76%) SOC 1
2 5 (6.76%) SOC 2
3 3 (4.05%) NCSC
4 2 (2.70%) QA
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (44.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (36.49%) Docker
3 25 (33.78%) Active Directory
4 14 (18.92%) vSphere
5 13 (17.57%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (12.16%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (9.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
10 2 (2.70%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 30 (40.54%) Ansible
2 26 (35.14%) Terraform
3 19 (25.68%) Kubernetes
4 17 (22.97%) Grafana
5 15 (20.27%) vCenter Server
6 13 (17.57%) Puppet
7 9 (12.16%) Graphite
7 9 (12.16%) HAProxy
7 9 (12.16%) Nagios
8 8 (10.81%) SCCM
9 6 (8.11%) Prometheus
9 6 (8.11%) WSUS
10 4 (5.41%) Istio
10 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (5.41%) Podman
11 3 (4.05%) Salt
12 2 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (2.70%) Kibana
12 2 (2.70%) Nessus
12 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 33 (44.59%) VMware
2 22 (29.73%) Microsoft
3 18 (24.32%) Oracle
4 12 (16.22%) Serena
5 10 (13.51%) Cisco
6 7 (9.46%) EMC
7 6 (8.11%) Dell
7 6 (8.11%) Google
7 6 (8.11%) SAP
8 5 (6.76%) HP
9 4 (5.41%) Juniper
9 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
9 4 (5.41%) Veeam
10 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.70%) BMC
10 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.70%) Sparx
10 2 (2.70%) Splunk
11 1 (1.35%) Apple
11 1 (1.35%) Darktrace