Zero Trust Job Trends in the North West

Zero Trust
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 200 169
Rank change year-on-year +27 -31 +128
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 6 5 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.097% 0.096% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.11% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -16.80% +87.37%
75th Percentile £86,450 £75,313 £100,064
90th Percentile £87,980 £87,125 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year - +6.74% +13.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,116 4,694 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.01% 90.27% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,311 2,675
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,320 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £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 West

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in the North West

Zero Trust
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Zero Trust
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the North West

Zero Trust
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Lancashire +13 3 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Cheshire - 2 £86,000 - 2
Manchester +20 1 £81,900 -9.00% 7
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) BGP
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) OSPF
2 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) VLAN
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Network Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) DPDK
1 2 (33.33%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (50.00%) Network Management
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) CCIE
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) KVM
1 2 (33.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SaltStack