Security Hardening Jobs in the South East

Security Hardening
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 269 446
Rank change year-on-year -49 +177 +25
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 15 24 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.30% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.32% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 8
10th Percentile - £35,120 £32,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £40,500 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £47,750 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.04% +24.84% -23.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £42,188
90th Percentile - £122,500 £54,750
England median annual salary £81,500 £67,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +20.74% +68.75% -27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,134 7,486 17,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.21% 93.45% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,861 4,981 10,221
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,252 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year - -1.64% +1.67%

Security Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the South East

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the South East

Security Hardening
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Hardening within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Berkshire +11 8 - - 1
Thames Valley -10 8 - - 1
Surrey -25 5 £58,750 +36.63%
Kent - 2 - -
Security Hardening
England

Security Hardening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DHCP
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) VSAN
3 2 (13.33%) IPv4
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) JIRA
2 6 (40.00%) Artifactory
2 6 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (40.00%) Git
2 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (40.00%) JSON
1 6 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (40.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (40.00%) Issue Tracking
2 6 (40.00%) Microservices
2 6 (40.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Security
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) ITSM
3 2 (13.33%) Line Management
3 2 (13.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Groovy
2 6 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) Perl
2 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
1 11 (73.33%) Packer
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
3 5 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) VMware
2 6 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 6 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 6 (40.00%) IBM
3 5 (33.33%) Dell
3 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft