Zero Trust Job Trends in the South East

Zero Trust
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 304 285
Rank change year-on-year +53 -19 +119
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 19 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.18% 0.022% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.025% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 £85,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £91,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.81% +83.00% -58.33%
75th Percentile £79,250 £97,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £118,750 - £85,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £86,250 £79,632
% change year-on-year -1.45% +8.31% +12.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 South East

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in the South East

Zero Trust
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Zero Trust
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the South East

Zero Trust
Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Hampshire - 11 £70,000 - 2
Surrey +7 5 £45,000 - 1
Thames Valley +10 1 - - 10
Kent - 1 £112,500 - 1
Berkshire - 1 - - 6
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (21.05%) OneDrive
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
2 6 (31.58%) BGP
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (15.79%) VPN
5 2 (10.53%) DMZ
5 2 (10.53%) Network Security
5 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
5 2 (10.53%) WAN
6 1 (5.26%) AMQP
6 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
6 1 (5.26%) HTTP
6 1 (5.26%) OSPF
6 1 (5.26%) S/MIME
6 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.26%) VLAN
6 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
6 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Snyk
General
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Marketing
3 4 (21.05%) Retail
3 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Security Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) OAuth
1 5 (26.32%) OAuth2
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (21.05%) OpenID
2 4 (21.05%) SAML
3 2 (10.53%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Security Posture
2 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.79%) Blog
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (15.79%) PKI
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (5.26%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (26.32%) Security Architecture
2 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (21.05%) Cryptography
3 4 (21.05%) Data Management
3 4 (21.05%) Network Architecture
3 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) AI
4 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Key Management
4 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (10.53%) ISMS
5 2 (10.53%) RBAC
5 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) CISSP
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CCIE
5 1 (5.26%) CCNP
5 1 (5.26%) CEH
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.26%) GIAC
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) NIST
2 5 (26.32%) NCSC
3 4 (21.05%) JSP 440
4 3 (15.79%) GDPR
4 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (10.53%) GRC
6 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
6 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco
1 6 (31.58%) VMware
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.26%) Checkmarx
4 1 (5.26%) Meraki
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) Qualys
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) Sophos
4 1 (5.26%) Thales
4 1 (5.26%) Veeam