Zero Trust Jobs in the Midlands

Zero Trust
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 319 308
Rank change year-on-year +78 -11 +40
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 19 2 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.27% 0.017% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.021% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 1 8
10th Percentile £42,800 - £41,012
25th Percentile £44,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £70,875 - £84,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% -8.20%

All Process and 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 6,383 9,729 8,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.58% 81.97% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,623 7,134 4,536
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,311 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Zero Trust in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 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
East Midlands - 11 £65,000 - 11
West Midlands +61 8 £46,000 -29.23% 12
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
3 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (21.05%) Route 53
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (84.21%) Firewall
2 13 (68.42%) SD-WAN
2 13 (68.42%) WAN
3 9 (47.37%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (47.37%) LAN
3 9 (47.37%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (31.58%) VPN
5 4 (21.05%) HTTPS
5 4 (21.05%) VLAN
6 2 (10.53%) DHCP
6 2 (10.53%) DNS
7 1 (5.26%) 5G
7 1 (5.26%) Internet
7 1 (5.26%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (5.26%) Modbus
7 1 (5.26%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) DB2
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Support
2 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco Support
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco Support Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Project Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Support Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Network Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
2 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.26%) NB-IoT
2 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) CentOS
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Rocky
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Presales
2 6 (31.58%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Security Operations
4 4 (21.05%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (21.05%) Cost Management
4 4 (21.05%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (21.05%) Identity Management
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (21.05%) Load Balancing
4 4 (21.05%) Privileged Identity Management
4 4 (21.05%) Proactive Management
4 4 (21.05%) Problem Management
4 4 (21.05%) Threat Management
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) High Availability
5 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Runbook
5 2 (10.53%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) CCIE
1 9 (47.37%) CCNP
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (21.05%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) MCP
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) NCSC
2 2 (10.53%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) SLA
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Nessus
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Cisco
2 9 (47.37%) Aruba
2 9 (47.37%) Fortinet
2 9 (47.37%) HP
2 9 (47.37%) Meraki
2 9 (47.37%) Palo Alto
3 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Netskope
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) VMware