Zero Trust Job Trends in the South West

Zero Trust
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 189 198
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +61
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 4 10 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.080% 0.23% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.27% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 13
10th Percentile £60,000 £39,750 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +3.60% +14.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £100,064
90th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year - +6.74% +13.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,642 3,658 4,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.49% 84.13% 91.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,469 1,880 3,049
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,236 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +6.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 West

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in the South West

Zero Trust
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Zero Trust
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the South West over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the South West

Zero Trust
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Wiltshire - 2 £60,000 - 7
Bristol +8 1 - - 8
Zero Trust
England

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DMZ
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Svelte
1 1 (25.00%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (25.00%) DataPower
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ISMS
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CISM
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) SAP