Zero Trust Job Trends in the Midlands

Zero Trust
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 209 233 212
Rank change year-on-year +24 -21 +101
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 13 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £51,250 £59,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £100,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +48.15% -3.57%
75th Percentile £89,375 £102,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £101,250 - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -2.86% +9.88% +13.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,357 5,881 4,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.55% 89.81% 88.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 2,578 3,796
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Zero Trust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Zero Trust

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
West Midlands +34 11 £65,000 -35.00% 24
East Midlands 0 2 - - 18
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 5 (38.46%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.69%) IaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
6 1 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
2 2 (15.38%) Internet
2 2 (15.38%) SSH
2 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) DMVPN
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Security Posture
2 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (15.38%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Security Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
2 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) RBAC
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
5 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bicep
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CISSP
2 4 (30.77%) CEH
2 4 (30.77%) OSCP
3 2 (15.38%) CCNA
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CISM
3 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (15.38%) GCIH
3 2 (15.38%) GSEC
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) CASB
3 2 (15.38%) Nessus
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Netskope
1 2 (15.38%) Qualys
2 1 (7.69%) Apple
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Dell
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Meraki
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow