Zero Trust Jobs in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Zero Trust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Zero Trust over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 698 598
Rank change year-on-year +168 -100 +203
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 49 64 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.085% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.10% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 39 48 44
10th Percentile £44,000 £38,750 £39,125
25th Percentile £53,125 £43,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% +13.04%
75th Percentile £76,840 £76,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £86,600 £100,064 £87,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Midlands +83 20 £62,500 -3.85% 9
East Midlands - 12 £65,000 - 5
West Midlands +63 8 £46,000 -29.23% 4
North of England +7 8 £60,000 +6.19% 28
North West -1 8 £60,000 -4.43% 17
Scotland +127 7 £74,870 +8.80% 8
South West +113 5 £60,000 -29.46% 8
South East +71 5 £75,000 +50.00% 21
Wales - 2 £46,367 - 2
East of England +46 1 £50,000 -31.03% 7
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Zero Trust
UK

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) AWS
2 12 (24.49%) Entra ID
3 10 (20.41%) GCP
4 8 (16.33%) OpenShift
5 6 (12.24%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (12.24%) SaaS
6 5 (10.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (10.20%) IaaS
6 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.16%) Route 53
7 4 (8.16%) Serverless
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.08%) PaaS
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.04%) Cloudflare
10 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
10 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (53.06%) WAN
2 25 (51.02%) Firewall
2 25 (51.02%) SD-WAN
3 14 (28.57%) VPN
4 13 (26.53%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (24.49%) LAN
6 9 (18.37%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (12.24%) DNS
8 4 (8.16%) HTTPS
8 4 (8.16%) VLAN
9 3 (6.12%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (6.12%) MPLS
9 3 (6.12%) Unified Communications
10 2 (4.08%) DHCP
10 2 (4.08%) Network Security
10 2 (4.08%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (4.08%) TACACS
11 1 (2.04%) Internet
11 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) DB2
3 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.04%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) Power BI
General
1 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Advertising
6 1 (2.04%) Automotive
6 1 (2.04%) Law
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Architect
2 10 (20.41%) Network Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (16.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Project Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
5 7 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Cisco Support
5 7 (14.29%) Cisco Support Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior
8 3 (6.12%) Lead
8 3 (6.12%) Security Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.04%) Middleware
3 1 (2.04%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 7 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.12%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) SCADA
3 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) NB-IoT
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.08%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.04%) CentOS
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.04%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.45%) Technical Leadership
2 10 (20.41%) Microservices
2 10 (20.41%) Presales
2 10 (20.41%) Roadmaps
3 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (18.37%) Security Architecture
4 8 (16.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (16.33%) Software Engineering
5 7 (14.29%) Agile
5 7 (14.29%) API Design
5 7 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 7 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 7 (14.29%) DevOps
5 7 (14.29%) Migration
5 7 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (12.24%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (12.24%) Identity Management
6 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) PowerShell
2 7 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) Java
3 3 (6.12%) SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) CCNP
1 12 (24.49%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (22.45%) CCIE
3 8 (16.33%) AWS Certification
4 7 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 6 (12.24%) CISSP
5 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
7 4 (8.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.12%) CISM
8 3 (6.12%) Degree
8 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
9 1 (2.04%) CISA
9 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.04%) GIAC
9 1 (2.04%) MCP
9 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.20%) GDPR
3 4 (8.16%) NIST
4 3 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (6.12%) HIPAA
4 3 (6.12%) NCSC
4 3 (6.12%) SOC 2
5 2 (4.08%) SLA
6 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 9 (18.37%) Docker
3 4 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.12%) vSphere
5 1 (2.04%) Firmware
5 1 (2.04%) NFS
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.24%) Ansible
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.20%) Terraform
4 2 (4.08%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.04%) cPanel
5 1 (2.04%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Nessus
5 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Cisco
2 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
3 11 (22.45%) Fortinet
3 11 (22.45%) Palo Alto
4 10 (20.41%) Aruba
5 9 (18.37%) HP
5 9 (18.37%) Meraki
6 7 (14.29%) Google
6 7 (14.29%) Zscaler
7 5 (10.20%) VMware
8 4 (8.16%) CheckPoint
8 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
9 3 (6.12%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (2.04%) Citrix
10 1 (2.04%) F5
10 1 (2.04%) Juniper
10 1 (2.04%) LogRhythm
10 1 (2.04%) Netskope
10 1 (2.04%) Okta
10 1 (2.04%) Tufin