Zero Trust Job Trends in the North of England

Zero Trust
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 256 279 201
Rank change year-on-year +23 -78 +174
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 7 6 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.067% 0.065% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.072% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 49
10th Percentile £54,000 £65,500 £53,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,991 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -16.66% -9.60% +27.41%
75th Percentile £80,463 £95,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £87,725 £101,000 £100,064
England median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -2.86% +9.88% +13.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,559 8,368 7,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.49% 90.10% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,765 5,537
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -1.87%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
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 North of England

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in the North of England

Zero Trust
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the North of England

Zero Trust
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West +30 5 £70,950 +5.11% 21
Yorkshire -5 2 £55,500 -35.46% 24
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (28.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) OSPF
3 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Electronics
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) IT Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Network Manager
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) DPDK
1 2 (28.57%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
2 2 (28.57%) Open Source
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) KVM
1 2 (28.57%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SaltStack
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Samsung
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Trend Micro