Zero Trust Jobs in England

Zero Trust
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Zero Trust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Zero Trust over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 715 658
Rank change year-on-year +117 -57 +290
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 87 128 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.14% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.17% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 68 93 108
10th Percentile £49,250 £39,747 £46,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £79,820 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,325 £99,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in England

Zero Trust
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Zero Trust in England

Zero Trust
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in England

Zero Trust
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
London +97 43 £65,024 -10.31% 97
Midlands +104 20 £62,500 -3.85% 101
East Midlands - 12 £65,000 - 42
North of England +22 9 £62,500 +10.62% 132
West Midlands +65 8 £46,000 -29.23% 51
North West +6 8 £60,000 -4.43% 66
South West +106 5 £60,000 -29.46% 70
South East +80 5 £75,000 +20.00% 178
Yorkshire +45 1 £71,991 +27.42% 50
East of England +43 1 £50,000 -31.03% 88
Zero Trust
UK

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.30%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 56 (64.37%) Azure
2 41 (47.13%) AWS
3 23 (26.44%) Entra ID
4 17 (19.54%) GCP
4 17 (19.54%) Serverless
5 16 (18.39%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (12.64%) AWS KMS
8 10 (11.49%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (11.49%) SaaS
9 8 (9.20%) IaaS
9 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (4.60%) GitHub
12 4 (4.60%) PaaS
12 4 (4.60%) Route 53
13 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (37.93%) Firewall
2 30 (34.48%) SD-WAN
2 30 (34.48%) WAN
3 21 (24.14%) Network Security
4 20 (22.99%) VPN
5 12 (13.79%) LAN
5 12 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (10.34%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (8.05%) DNS
8 4 (4.60%) HTTPS
8 4 (4.60%) MPLS
8 4 (4.60%) VLAN
9 3 (3.45%) DHCP
9 3 (3.45%) Unified Communications
10 2 (2.30%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (2.30%) NAS
10 2 (2.30%) SAN
10 2 (2.30%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (2.30%) TACACS
11 1 (1.15%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.30%) Power BI
4 1 (1.15%) DB2
4 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.15%) MLflow
General
1 37 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (6.90%) Law
3 5 (5.75%) Finance
3 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.60%) Legal
4 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.45%) Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
7 1 (1.15%) Automotive
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (39.08%) Architect
2 15 (17.24%) Cloud Architect
3 13 (14.94%) AWS Architect
4 12 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) Network Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Lead
6 10 (11.49%) Security Architect
7 9 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Project Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Security Engineer
9 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (8.05%) Cisco Support
9 7 (8.05%) Cisco Support Engineer
9 7 (8.05%) Support Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Lead Architect
10 6 (6.90%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.39%) Kafka
2 13 (14.94%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.60%) RESTful
4 2 (2.30%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.15%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.15%) LangChain
5 1 (1.15%) Micronaut
5 1 (1.15%) Middleware
5 1 (1.15%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.15%) OAuth
5 1 (1.15%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.15%) OpenID
5 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.15%) Quarkus
5 1 (1.15%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.15%) SAML
5 1 (1.15%) Spring
5 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 18 (20.69%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.75%) Cloud Security Posture
4 5 (5.75%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.60%) Operational Technology
5 4 (4.60%) PKI
5 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.45%) Machine to Machine
6 3 (3.45%) Replication
7 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.30%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (2.30%) IoT
7 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.30%) SCADA
8 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.99%) Windows
2 11 (12.64%) Linux
3 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.60%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.15%) CentOS
8 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.93%) Security Architecture
2 29 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 28 (32.18%) DevOps
4 25 (28.74%) Mentoring
5 22 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 21 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (24.14%) Incident Response
7 20 (22.99%) Cost Optimisation
7 20 (22.99%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (21.84%) High Availability
9 18 (20.69%) Containerisation
9 18 (20.69%) Data Protection
9 18 (20.69%) Event-Driven
9 18 (20.69%) Microservices
10 17 (19.54%) Architectural Patterns
10 17 (19.54%) Regulatory Compliance
11 16 (18.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (18.39%) Migration
11 16 (18.39%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.84%) PowerShell
2 17 (19.54%) Java
3 11 (12.64%) Python
4 3 (3.45%) Bash
4 3 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.15%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (25.29%) AWS Certification
2 21 (24.14%) Degree
3 19 (21.84%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (18.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (18.39%) Security Cleared
5 15 (17.24%) CCNP
6 14 (16.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
7 13 (14.94%) CCIE
8 12 (13.79%) CISSP
9 9 (10.34%) Azure Certification
10 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (4.60%) CCSP
11 4 (4.60%) CISM
11 4 (4.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (2.30%) CRISC
13 2 (2.30%) JNCIP
13 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
13 2 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (35.63%) GDPR
2 25 (28.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (20.69%) HIPAA
4 14 (16.09%) NIST
5 9 (10.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (9.20%) SOC 2
7 6 (6.90%) NCSC
8 4 (4.60%) PCI DSS
9 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (2.30%) COBIT
10 2 (2.30%) NIST 800
10 2 (2.30%) SLA
11 1 (1.15%) EU AI Act
11 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 18 (20.69%) Docker
2 17 (19.54%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.45%) vSphere
6 2 (2.30%) Firmware
7 1 (1.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (31.03%) Terraform
2 20 (22.99%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.09%) Grafana
3 14 (16.09%) Prometheus
4 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (9.20%) Ansible
6 4 (4.60%) Nessus
7 3 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.45%) Puppet
8 2 (2.30%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.30%) VxRail
9 1 (1.15%) CASB
9 1 (1.15%) cPanel
9 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (21.84%) Cisco
3 15 (17.24%) Palo Alto
4 14 (16.09%) VMware
5 11 (12.64%) Fortinet
6 10 (11.49%) Aruba
6 10 (11.49%) Meraki
7 9 (10.34%) HP
7 9 (10.34%) Zscaler
8 4 (4.60%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.60%) Dell
8 4 (4.60%) Google
8 4 (4.60%) IBM
8 4 (4.60%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.45%) Alibaba
9 3 (3.45%) Extreme Networks
9 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.30%) EMC
10 2 (2.30%) Netskope
10 2 (2.30%) SonicWALL