Zero Trust Job Trends in Cardiff

Zero Trust
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.15% 0.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.56% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,213 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,425 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.32% - -
75th Percentile £76,638 £57,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £74,425 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +35.32% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 495 179 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 74.10% 90.40% 75.71%
Number of salaries quoted 365 125 541
10th Percentile £29,620 £27,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +8.51% -7.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,766
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.70% -3.39%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Zero Trust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Zero Trust

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft