Zero Trust Job Trends in Birmingham

Zero Trust
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 121 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 6 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.35% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.23% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £97,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £100,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £102,500 -
90th Percentile £61,750 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £100,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -35.00% +73.91% -17.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Zero Trust 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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,381 1,713 1,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.64% 92.64% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 973 797 940
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Zero Trust relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Zero Trust
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Zero Trust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Information Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) CEH
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
2 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (33.33%) GSEC
2 2 (33.33%) OSCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (33.33%) Nessus
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow