Security Hardening Jobs with Work from Home 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 607 882
Rank change year-on-year +30 +275 -298
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 25 26 19
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.070% 0.069% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.072% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 24 24 8
10th Percentile £43,227 - £35,250
25th Percentile £70,938 £31,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +146.15% -31.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £52,500 £70,438
90th Percentile - £55,000 £86,750
UK median annual salary £59,500 £35,400 £48,750
% change year-on-year +68.08% -27.38% -18.75%

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 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Security Hardening
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Hardening trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Hardening
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Security Hardening over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (28.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) OCI
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) DNS
1 8 (32.00%) Firewall
2 7 (28.00%) Internet
2 7 (28.00%) SNMP
2 7 (28.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (28.00%) tcpdump
3 4 (16.00%) VSAN
4 2 (8.00%) VPN
5 1 (4.00%) 4G
5 1 (4.00%) 5G
5 1 (4.00%) BGP
5 1 (4.00%) IPsec
5 1 (4.00%) Network Security
5 1 (4.00%) OSPF
5 1 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (28.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (28.00%) MySQL
2 5 (20.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.00%) Dremio
3 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 17 (68.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (40.00%) Git
2 10 (40.00%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (16.00%) Police
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) Server Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Network Communications Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Network Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (28.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (68.00%) Clustering
2 10 (40.00%) Replication
3 5 (20.00%) PKI
4 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Linux
2 14 (56.00%) Windows
3 10 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
3 10 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (40.00%) Solaris
4 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) VMS
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 18 (72.00%) High Availability
2 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (68.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (68.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (68.00%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (52.00%) Agile
4 12 (48.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
6 9 (36.00%) DevOps
7 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (28.00%) Business Continuity
8 7 (28.00%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (28.00%) Code Quality
8 7 (28.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (28.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
8 7 (28.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (68.00%) Bash
2 17 (68.00%) Python
3 10 (40.00%) C#
4 7 (28.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) MCSA
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (72.00%) Docker
2 8 (32.00%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (16.00%) vSphere
6 1 (4.00%) Ceph
6 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Ansible
1 17 (68.00%) Terraform
2 13 (52.00%) Grafana
3 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (28.00%) Graphite
4 7 (28.00%) HAProxy
4 7 (28.00%) Nagios
4 7 (28.00%) Puppet
4 7 (28.00%) vCenter Server
5 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (16.00%) Istio
6 4 (16.00%) SCCM
7 1 (4.00%) Kibana
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (4.00%) Nessus
7 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Oracle
1 10 (40.00%) Serena
2 6 (24.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.00%) Dell
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (16.00%) HP
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (12.00%) Google
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco
6 1 (4.00%) EMC
6 1 (4.00%) Juniper
6 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.00%) Qualys
6 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.00%) Sparx
6 1 (4.00%) TOWER Software