Security Hardening Jobs

Security Hardening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 881 1176
Rank change year-on-year +48 +295 -293
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 74 66 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.070% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.073% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 65 46 29
10th Percentile £36,250 - £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £35,400 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.08% -29.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £55,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £65,000 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,227 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -21.41% +8.91% -3.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in the UK

Security Hardening
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +47 73 £59,750 +68.79% 15
UK excluding London -18 46 £43,227 -21.41% 11
Work from Home +40 28 £79,750 +145.38% 5
London +111 27 £100,000 +207.69% 4
South West -9 23 £59,500 -11.85% 2
North of England +35 12 £37,500 -21.05% 1
North East -5 7 £36,000 -24.21%
Yorkshire +60 5 £37,500 - 1
East of England -5 4 £62,500 - 2
South East -26 4 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands - 4 £43,227 -
West Midlands - 4 £43,227 -

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
3 1 (1.35%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.19%) Azure
2 22 (29.73%) AWS
3 13 (17.57%) GCP
4 10 (13.51%) 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%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.41%) OCI
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.70%) IaaS
9 2 (2.70%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.70%) Serverless
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.35%) PaaS
10 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (31.08%) Firewall
2 17 (22.97%) DNS
3 14 (18.92%) TCP/IP
4 12 (16.22%) Internet
5 11 (14.86%) NAS
6 9 (12.16%) VPN
7 8 (10.81%) SNMP
7 8 (10.81%) tcpdump
7 8 (10.81%) VSAN
8 6 (8.11%) 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%) 5G
11 3 (4.05%) Network Security
11 3 (4.05%) WAN
12 2 (2.70%) OSPF
12 2 (2.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (10.81%) MongoDB
1 8 (10.81%) 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 22 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 15 (20.27%) Git
3 12 (16.22%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.70%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.70%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.92%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.76%) Aerospace
7 4 (5.41%) Police
8 2 (2.70%) Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.35%) Law
9 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) Senior
3 10 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
4 8 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) ICT Officer
5 7 (9.46%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 7 (9.46%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Analyst
6 6 (8.11%) Implementation Manager
7 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) IT Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.81%) 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 25 (33.78%) Clustering
2 16 (21.62%) Replication
3 8 (10.81%) Management Information System
4 6 (8.11%) PKI
4 6 (8.11%) Public Cloud
5 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.76%) Private Cloud
6 4 (5.41%) Blockchain
6 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.70%) CMDB
8 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.70%) Smartcard
9 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (56.76%) Linux
2 39 (52.70%) 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
6 10 (13.51%) Windows 10
7 7 (9.46%) VMS
8 4 (5.41%) Debian
9 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.70%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.35%) Unix
10 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) High Availability
2 25 (33.78%) Agile
2 25 (33.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 25 (33.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (32.43%) Performance Tuning
4 21 (28.38%) CI/CD
5 20 (27.03%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (24.32%) Containerisation
7 18 (24.32%) DevOps
8 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (21.62%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (17.57%) Project Delivery
11 12 (16.22%) Computer Science
11 12 (16.22%) Proactive Monitoring
11 12 (16.22%) Server Management
11 12 (16.22%) Time Management
12 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 9 (12.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.54%) Python
2 29 (39.19%) PowerShell
3 24 (32.43%) Bash
4 18 (24.32%) C#
5 10 (13.51%) 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 5 (6.76%) CCNA
6 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (5.41%) MCP
7 4 (5.41%) MCSE
8 1 (1.35%) CCNP
8 1 (1.35%) CEH
8 1 (1.35%) CISA
8 1 (1.35%) CISSP
8 1 (1.35%) CRISC
8 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (6.76%) SOC 1
3 5 (6.76%) SOC 2
4 4 (5.41%) NCSC
5 2 (2.70%) QA
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (43.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (33.78%) Docker
3 24 (32.43%) Active Directory
4 14 (18.92%) vSphere
5 11 (14.86%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (12.16%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (9.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.70%) Ceph
9 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (39.19%) Ansible
2 25 (33.78%) Terraform
3 18 (24.32%) Kubernetes
4 15 (20.27%) Grafana
5 14 (18.92%) vCenter Server
6 12 (16.22%) Puppet
7 8 (10.81%) Graphite
7 8 (10.81%) HAProxy
7 8 (10.81%) Nagios
7 8 (10.81%) SCCM
8 6 (8.11%) Prometheus
9 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (6.76%) WSUS
10 4 (5.41%) Istio
10 4 (5.41%) Podman
11 3 (4.05%) Salt
12 2 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (2.70%) Kibana
13 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (43.24%) VMware
2 23 (31.08%) Microsoft
3 18 (24.32%) Oracle
4 12 (16.22%) Serena
5 9 (12.16%) Cisco
6 7 (9.46%) EMC
7 6 (8.11%) Google
7 6 (8.11%) SAP
8 5 (6.76%) Dell
8 5 (6.76%) HP
9 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
9 4 (5.41%) Veeam
10 3 (4.05%) Juniper
11 2 (2.70%) Atlassian
11 2 (2.70%) BMC
11 2 (2.70%) Meraki
11 2 (2.70%) Sparx
12 1 (1.35%) AppDynamics
12 1 (1.35%) Darktrace
12 1 (1.35%) Palo Alto