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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 774 852 1099
Rank change year-on-year +78 +247 -244
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 74 62 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.081% 0.074% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.077% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 64 44 27
10th Percentile £36,250 - £35,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £31,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £35,400 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.79% -30.59% -15.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £55,563 £66,375
90th Percentile £102,500 £66,500 £84,250
UK median annual salary £59,500 £35,400 £50,000
% change year-on-year +68.08% -29.20% -9.09%

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 76,200 80,466 135,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.51% 95.48% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,193 48,975 73,419
10th Percentile £29,022 £34,324 £33,262
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
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 £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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 2 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
London +106 28 £100,000 +207.69% 4
South West -11 23 £59,500 -11.85% 2
North of England +35 12 £37,500 -21.05% 1
North East -6 7 £36,000 -24.21%
Yorkshire +58 5 £37,500 - 1
East of England -9 4 £62,500 - 2
South East -31 4 £60,000 +9.09% 7
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%) Ripple
2 2 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.84%) Azure
2 23 (31.08%) AWS
3 14 (18.92%) 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%) OCI
9 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.70%) IaaS
10 2 (2.70%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.70%) Serverless
11 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.35%) PaaS
11 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (31.08%) Firewall
2 16 (21.62%) 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 5 (6.76%) DHCP
8 5 (6.76%) SSL
9 4 (5.41%) Network Security
9 4 (5.41%) RTP
9 4 (5.41%) SAN
9 4 (5.41%) VLAN
10 3 (4.05%) 4G
10 3 (4.05%) 5G
10 3 (4.05%) WAN
11 2 (2.70%) IPsec
11 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 16 (21.62%) Git
3 12 (16.22%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.05%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.70%) JIRA
6 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.76%) Aerospace
6 4 (5.41%) Police
7 2 (2.70%) Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.70%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Linux Engineer
1 12 (16.22%) Senior
2 10 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (12.16%) 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%) Implementation Manager
7 5 (6.76%) Analyst
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%) Systems Analyst
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 7 (9.46%) Public Cloud
5 6 (8.11%) PKI
6 5 (6.76%) Blockchain
6 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
6 5 (6.76%) Private Cloud
7 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
8 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.70%) CMDB
9 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.70%) Smartcard
10 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (56.76%) Linux
2 38 (51.35%) Windows
3 20 (27.03%) 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 7 (9.46%) VMS
9 4 (5.41%) Debian
10 2 (2.70%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.35%) Unix
11 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) High Availability
2 26 (35.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (33.78%) Agile
3 25 (33.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (32.43%) Performance Tuning
5 21 (28.38%) CI/CD
6 20 (27.03%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (25.68%) DevOps
8 18 (24.32%) Containerisation
8 18 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (21.62%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (20.27%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (17.57%) Project Delivery
12 12 (16.22%) Computer Science
12 12 (16.22%) Server Management
12 12 (16.22%) Time Management
13 11 (14.86%) Proactive Monitoring
14 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Monitoring
15 9 (12.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) 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%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) Degree
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.81%) MCSA
5 6 (8.11%) CCNA
5 6 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (8.11%) DBS Check
5 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (5.41%) MCP
6 4 (5.41%) MCSE
7 2 (2.70%) CCNP
7 2 (2.70%) CEH
7 2 (2.70%) CISA
7 2 (2.70%) CISSP
7 2 (2.70%) CRISC
8 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 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%) 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
13 1 (1.35%) Check_MK
13 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (43.24%) VMware
2 22 (29.73%) 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%) Sparx
12 1 (1.35%) Apple
12 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.35%) Qualys
12 1 (1.35%) TOWER Software