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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 689 590
Rank change year-on-year +152 -99 +188
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 51 75 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.10% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 43 59 52
10th Percentile £44,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £45,625 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £100,064 £77,715
90th Percentile £94,750 - £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -8.20%

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 37,041 59,787 56,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.90% 83.60% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,101 41,279 29,105
10th Percentile £26,875 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 18 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 18 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 +81 19 £62,500 -3.85% 17
East Midlands - 11 £65,000 - 9
North of England +11 10 £67,246 +7.11% 18
Scotland +117 9 £74,870 -21.30% 5
North West -6 9 £62,500 -0.45% 10
West Midlands +55 8 £46,000 -29.23% 8
South West +108 5 £60,000 -36.93% 15
South East +80 4 £75,000 +50.00% 36
Wales - 2 £46,367 - 1
Yorkshire +49 1 £71,991 +27.42% 8
East of England +35 1 £50,000 -31.03% 3
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 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) Entra ID
3 11 (21.57%) GCP
4 9 (17.65%) OpenShift
5 6 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (11.76%) SaaS
6 5 (9.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (9.80%) IaaS
6 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (7.84%) Route 53
7 4 (7.84%) Serverless
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.92%) PaaS
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.96%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (50.98%) WAN
2 25 (49.02%) Firewall
2 25 (49.02%) SD-WAN
3 14 (27.45%) VPN
4 13 (25.49%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (23.53%) LAN
6 9 (17.65%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (11.76%) DNS
8 4 (7.84%) HTTPS
8 4 (7.84%) Network Security
8 4 (7.84%) VLAN
9 3 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (5.88%) MPLS
9 3 (5.88%) Unified Communications
10 2 (3.92%) DHCP
10 2 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (3.92%) TACACS
11 1 (1.96%) BGP
11 1 (1.96%) Internet
11 1 (1.96%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.96%) DB2
3 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) Power BI
General
1 16 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Finance
3 8 (15.69%) Banking
4 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Advertising
6 1 (1.96%) Automotive
6 1 (1.96%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Architect
2 10 (19.61%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (17.65%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Network Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) 3rd Line Support
5 7 (13.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Cisco Support
5 7 (13.73%) Cisco Support Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Project Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Support Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Consultant
8 4 (7.84%) Senior
9 3 (5.88%) Security Consultant
10 2 (3.92%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (3.92%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.96%) Middleware
3 1 (1.96%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Private Cloud
2 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.84%) Operational Technology
4 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.96%) IoT
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.96%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.96%) PKI
6 1 (1.96%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.53%) Windows
2 6 (11.76%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.84%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.96%) CentOS
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.96%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Roadmaps
2 12 (23.53%) Microservices
2 12 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (17.65%) Agile
3 9 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
3 9 (17.65%) Presales
3 9 (17.65%) Security Architecture
3 9 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 8 (15.69%) API Design
4 8 (15.69%) Customer Experience
4 8 (15.69%) Data Architecture
4 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (15.69%) Migration
4 8 (15.69%) Translating Business Requirements
5 7 (13.73%) Cloud Security
5 7 (13.73%) DevOps
6 6 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (11.76%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.73%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) Java
3 3 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) CCIE
1 11 (21.57%) CCNP
1 11 (21.57%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (15.69%) AWS Certification
3 7 (13.73%) Azure Certification
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
6 4 (7.84%) CISSP
6 4 (7.84%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.92%) CISM
8 2 (3.92%) Degree
9 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.96%) MCP
9 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.80%) GDPR
3 4 (7.84%) NIST
4 3 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (5.88%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.88%) NCSC
4 3 (5.88%) SOC 2
5 2 (3.92%) SLA
6 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) Active Directory
2 10 (19.61%) Docker
3 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.88%) vSphere
5 1 (1.96%) Firmware
5 1 (1.96%) NFS
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.76%) Ansible
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (9.80%) Terraform
4 2 (3.92%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.96%) cPanel
5 1 (1.96%) Grafana
5 1 (1.96%) Nessus
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Cisco
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.61%) Aruba
2 10 (19.61%) Fortinet
2 10 (19.61%) Palo Alto
3 9 (17.65%) HP
3 9 (17.65%) Meraki
4 8 (15.69%) Google
5 7 (13.73%) Zscaler
6 5 (9.80%) VMware
7 4 (7.84%) CheckPoint
7 4 (7.84%) SolarWinds
8 3 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.96%) Citrix
9 1 (1.96%) F5
9 1 (1.96%) IBM
9 1 (1.96%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.96%) Netskope
9 1 (1.96%) Okta
9 1 (1.96%) Tufin