Server Hardening Jobs

Server Hardening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Server Hardening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Server 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 903 931 1191
Rank change year-on-year +28 +260 -266
Permanent jobs citing Server Hardening 4 16 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.017% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.018% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 32
10th Percentile £59,750 £40,875 £31,443
25th Percentile £65,000 £42,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £46,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.48% -29.23% -8.77%
75th Percentile £81,250 £56,250 £70,000
90th Percentile - £72,625 £76,125
UK excluding London median annual salary - £46,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -43.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Server 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%

Server Hardening
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Hardening in the UK

Server Hardening
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Server Hardening in the UK

Server Hardening
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Server Hardening in the UK

Server Hardening
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server 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 +26 4 £77,500 +68.48% 5
London +111 3 £77,500 +34.78% 1
Work from Home +43 2 £77,500 +55.00% 2
South East -7 1 - - 2
UK excluding London -41 1 - - 4

Server 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Unix Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Unix Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Solaris
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) AWK
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bourne shell
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CASP
1 2 (50.00%) CISA
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) RHCE
2 1 (25.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) COBIT
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (25.00%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas