Security Hardening Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 724 701 816
Rank change year-on-year -23 +115 -132
Permanent jobs citing Security Hardening 46 32 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.057% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.059% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 41 15 14
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,400 £37,425
25th Percentile £38,250 £40,825 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.41% +8.91% -3.81%
75th Percentile £61,750 £57,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £78,650
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Hardening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Hardening in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Hardening in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Hardening in the UK excluding London

Security Hardening
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding London 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 (28.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (13.04%) SAP PLM
1 6 (13.04%) Teamcenter
2 2 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.87%) AWS
3 5 (10.87%) Nutanix
3 5 (10.87%) SaaS
4 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.35%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.17%) IaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.26%) Firewall
2 11 (23.91%) NAS
3 8 (17.39%) DNS
3 8 (17.39%) VPN
3 8 (17.39%) VSAN
4 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
5 5 (10.87%) DHCP
5 5 (10.87%) SSL
6 4 (8.70%) Internet
6 4 (8.70%) RTP
6 4 (8.70%) SAN
6 4 (8.70%) VLAN
7 3 (6.52%) 4G
7 3 (6.52%) 5G
7 3 (6.52%) WAN
8 2 (4.35%) BGP
8 2 (4.35%) IPsec
8 2 (4.35%) Network Security
8 2 (4.35%) OSPF
8 2 (4.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Power BI
2 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
1 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.87%) Aerospace
5 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Police
6 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) ICT Officer
1 7 (15.22%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Implementation Manager
2 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 4 (8.70%) Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Server Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) IT Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Network Communications Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Network Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Team Leader
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Leader
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Team Leader
7 1 (2.17%) Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) CSS
1 6 (13.04%) HTML
2 4 (8.70%) XMPP
3 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.04%) PKI
3 5 (10.87%) Clustering
3 5 (10.87%) Private Cloud
3 5 (10.87%) Public Cloud
4 4 (8.70%) Replication
4 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
6 2 (4.35%) CMDB
6 2 (4.35%) Smartcard
7 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Windows
2 20 (43.48%) Linux
3 17 (36.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (19.57%) Windows 10
5 6 (13.04%) VMS
6 4 (8.70%) Debian
6 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.35%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (28.26%) Project Delivery
3 12 (26.09%) Agile
3 12 (26.09%) Computer Science
3 12 (26.09%) Server Management
4 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 9 (19.57%) High Availability
5 9 (19.57%) Proactive Monitoring
5 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.39%) ITIL
7 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (13.04%) PLM
8 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
8 6 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (13.04%) Virtual Environments
9 5 (10.87%) Change Management
9 5 (10.87%) Data Security
9 5 (10.87%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.04%) C#
2 6 (13.04%) SQL
2 6 (13.04%) VBA
3 5 (10.87%) Python
4 4 (8.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) Groovy
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) Perl
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (26.09%) Degree
4 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
5 8 (17.39%) MCSA
6 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (13.04%) DBS Check
6 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
7 4 (8.70%) CCNA
7 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (8.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (8.70%) MCP
7 4 (8.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (10.87%) SOC 1
1 5 (10.87%) SOC 2
2 3 (6.52%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 32 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (43.48%) Active Directory
3 14 (30.43%) vSphere
4 9 (19.57%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (15.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (10.87%) Docker
6 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) SCCM
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) vCenter Server
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
3 5 (10.87%) WSUS
4 4 (8.70%) Podman
4 4 (8.70%) Puppet
5 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.17%) Check_MK
6 1 (2.17%) Grafana
6 1 (2.17%) Nessus
6 1 (2.17%) Packer
6 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (69.57%) VMware
2 20 (43.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) Cisco
4 7 (15.22%) EMC
5 6 (13.04%) Oracle
5 6 (13.04%) SAP
6 5 (10.87%) Dell
7 4 (8.70%) HP
7 4 (8.70%) Veeam
8 3 (6.52%) Juniper
9 2 (4.35%) BMC
9 2 (4.35%) Sparx
10 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
10 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
10 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.17%) IBM
10 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.17%) Splunk