Zero Trust
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Zero Trust skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Zero Trust over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 686 979
Rank change year-on-year -61 +293 -152
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 149 294 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.29% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 120 134 170
10th Percentile £41,200 £51,425 £47,075
25th Percentile £55,750 £61,180 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,504 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,064 £98,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Zero Trust 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust.

Salary trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -13 132 £65,000 -7.14% 25
UK excluding London -64 81 £62,783 -3.41% 17
Work from Home -25 77 £65,000 -6.77% 8
London +58 51 £72,500 -12.12% 12
North of England +24 46 £62,783 +6.41% 1
Yorkshire +73 19 £56,500 -4.24%
South East +35 16 £42,500 -46.88% 6
North West -7 15 £62,783 +12.16% 1
North East - 12 £42,500 -
South West -27 7 £95,128 +46.35% 3
East of England +14 5 £72,500 -3.33%
Scotland -79 5 £95,128 +36.98% 1
Midlands -1 2 £65,000 +44.44% 2
West Midlands +17 1 £65,000 +44.44% 1

Zero Trust
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (9.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (68.46%) Azure
2 51 (34.23%) AWS
3 48 (32.21%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (19.46%) SaaS
5 28 (18.79%) GCP
5 28 (18.79%) PaaS
6 26 (17.45%) IaaS
7 24 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (14.09%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (14.09%) Entra ID
9 18 (12.08%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (9.40%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (4.70%) OneDrive
12 5 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.36%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.68%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.34%) Datadog
14 2 (1.34%) Nutanix
15 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (46.31%) Firewall
2 60 (40.27%) Network Security
3 43 (28.86%) WAN
4 41 (27.52%) LAN
5 24 (16.11%) VPN
6 23 (15.44%) TCP/IP
7 14 (9.40%) DNS
7 14 (9.40%) Wireshark
8 10 (6.71%) Internet
8 10 (6.71%) SD-WAN
9 9 (6.04%) BGP
9 9 (6.04%) MPLS
10 8 (5.37%) WLAN
11 7 (4.70%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (4.03%) IGRP
12 6 (4.03%) SAN
12 6 (4.03%) VPLS
12 6 (4.03%) VRRP
12 6 (4.03%) Wireless
13 5 (3.36%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.42%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (12.75%) Data Lake
2 19 (12.75%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) JIRA
2 5 (3.36%) Git
3 2 (1.34%) GitLab
3 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.34%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.67%) Snyk
General
1 51 (34.23%) Finance
2 25 (16.78%) Banking
3 21 (14.09%) Public Sector
4 18 (12.08%) Social Skills
5 7 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.36%) Law
7 4 (2.68%) Legal
7 4 (2.68%) Retail
8 3 (2.01%) Local Government
8 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.34%) Digital Economy
9 2 (1.34%) Games
9 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Advertising
10 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (25.50%) Architect
2 30 (20.13%) Senior
3 23 (15.44%) Security Engineer
4 20 (13.42%) Enterprise Architect
5 15 (10.07%) Consultant
6 13 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (8.72%) Lead
7 12 (8.05%) Analyst
7 12 (8.05%) Network Engineer
8 11 (7.38%) Information Security Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Security Architect
9 10 (6.71%) Team Leader
10 9 (6.04%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Engineer
10 9 (6.04%) Product Owner
10 9 (6.04%) Senior Product Owner
11 8 (5.37%) Security Analyst
12 7 (4.70%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) OpenID
2 4 (2.68%) Kafka
3 3 (2.01%) HTML
3 3 (2.01%) Web Services
4 2 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.81%) Management Information System
2 19 (12.75%) Blockchain
2 19 (12.75%) Mainframe
3 14 (9.40%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (8.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 12 (8.05%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (8.05%) Data Centre
6 11 (7.38%) Security Posture
7 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
8 8 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (4.03%) Cloud Native
10 5 (3.36%) Public Cloud
11 4 (2.68%) Blog
11 4 (2.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (2.01%) Hedge funds
12 3 (2.01%) PKI
12 3 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (1.34%) Blackberry
13 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.34%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.83%) Windows
2 25 (16.78%) Unix
3 14 (9.40%) Android
3 14 (9.40%) Apple iOS
4 13 (8.72%) Linux
5 10 (6.71%) Windows Server
6 9 (6.04%) Windows 10
7 8 (5.37%) CentOS
8 6 (4.03%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (2.68%) Solaris
10 4 (2.68%) zOS
11 3 (2.01%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.67%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.98%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (40.94%) Roadmaps
3 54 (36.24%) Agile
4 48 (32.21%) Cloud Security
5 44 (29.53%) DevOps
6 43 (28.86%) SIEM
7 38 (25.50%) Identity Access Management
8 31 (20.81%) Information Security
9 28 (18.79%) Vulnerability Management
10 27 (18.12%) Artificial Intelligence
10 27 (18.12%) Machine Learning
10 27 (18.12%) Security Management
10 27 (18.12%) Strategic Roadmap
11 21 (14.09%) Security Architecture
11 21 (14.09%) Thought Leadership
12 20 (13.42%) Customer Service
12 20 (13.42%) Key Management
12 20 (13.42%) Microservices
13 19 (12.75%) Event-Driven
13 19 (12.75%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.45%) PowerShell
2 21 (14.09%) Python
3 7 (4.70%) SQL
4 3 (2.01%) C#
5 2 (1.34%) Bash
6 1 (0.67%) Go
6 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (23.49%) CISSP
2 30 (20.13%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (16.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 25 (16.78%) CCSP
4 17 (11.41%) Degree
5 14 (9.40%) CEH
5 14 (9.40%) SANS
5 14 (9.40%) SSCP
6 10 (6.71%) CCNP
7 9 (6.04%) Security Cleared
8 8 (5.37%) CCIE
9 7 (4.70%) CISM
10 6 (4.03%) CCIE Security
10 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
11 5 (3.36%) Azure Certification
11 5 (3.36%) CCSK
11 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
12 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
14 2 (1.34%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (39.60%) NIST
2 45 (30.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (12.08%) PCI DSS
4 14 (9.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 9 (6.04%) NCSC
7 6 (4.03%) GDPR
7 6 (4.03%) GRC
7 6 (4.03%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.34%) SLA
9 1 (0.67%) COBIT
9 1 (0.67%) IASME
9 1 (0.67%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (20.13%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (6.04%) Docker
4 6 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (18.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (10.07%) Terraform
3 14 (9.40%) Nmap
4 13 (8.72%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (6.71%) Ansible
6 3 (2.01%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (2.01%) Stealthwatch
6 3 (2.01%) Suricata
7 2 (1.34%) Kibana
7 2 (1.34%) Packer
7 2 (1.34%) Puppet
7 2 (1.34%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.67%) Anchore
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (33.56%) Microsoft
2 40 (26.85%) Cisco
3 36 (24.16%) Splunk
4 21 (14.09%) Zscaler
5 18 (12.08%) Meraki
5 18 (12.08%) Qualys
6 14 (9.40%) Rapid7
6 14 (9.40%) Thycotic
7 11 (7.38%) Palo Alto
7 11 (7.38%) VMware
8 10 (6.71%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.37%) CheckPoint
9 8 (5.37%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (4.03%) Blue Coat
10 6 (4.03%) Fortinet
10 6 (4.03%) Juniper
10 6 (4.03%) Netskope
10 6 (4.03%) Symantec
11 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.68%) Intel