Zero Trust Job Trends in the North East

Zero Trust
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 3 0 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.16% - 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92,500 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - £42,500
75th Percentile £97,500 - £53,554
90th Percentile - - £67,968
England median annual salary £85,000 £61,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +38.78% -5.77% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,384 521 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.64% 92.54% 86.86%
Number of salaries quoted 952 322 1,313
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,768 £27,898
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -1.30%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,250 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in the North East

Zero Trust
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Zero Trust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the North East region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Tyne and Wear - 3 £95,000 - 5
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Application Security
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (100.00%) CCSP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST