Zero Trust Jobs

Zero Trust
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 736 696
Rank change year-on-year +152 -40 +278
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 100 149 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 80 120 131
10th Percentile £49,750 £41,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £55,750 £60,590
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -9.68%
75th Percentile £80,625 £90,000 £93,502
90th Percentile £97,275 £100,064 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,783 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust.

Salary trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +140 83 £62,500 -3.85% 115
Work from Home +153 49 £60,000 -7.69% 84
UK excluding London +172 46 £65,000 +3.53% 56
London +96 43 £70,047 -3.38% 62
Midlands +78 19 £62,500 -3.85% 14
East Midlands - 11 £65,000 - 3
Scotland +132 9 £74,870 -21.30% 3
West Midlands +58 8 £46,000 -29.23% 11
North of England +46 8 £67,246 +7.11% 12
North West +25 7 £62,500 -0.45% 8
South West +111 3 £60,000 -36.93% 7
South East +100 3 £62,500 +47.06% 17
Wales - 2 £46,367 - 1
East of England +54 1 £50,000 -31.03% 2
Yorkshire +52 1 £71,991 +27.42% 4
Isle of Man - 1 - -

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (54.00%) Azure
2 39 (39.00%) AWS
3 23 (23.00%) Entra ID
4 21 (21.00%) GCP
5 19 (19.00%) Serverless
6 17 (17.00%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (13.00%) AWS KMS
9 10 (10.00%) SaaS
10 9 (9.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (9.00%) OpenShift
11 8 (8.00%) IaaS
11 8 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (4.00%) PaaS
14 4 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 36 (36.00%) Firewall
2 34 (34.00%) WAN
3 33 (33.00%) SD-WAN
4 29 (29.00%) Network Security
5 21 (21.00%) VPN
6 14 (14.00%) LAN
6 14 (14.00%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (9.00%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (6.00%) MPLS
9 5 (5.00%) DNS
9 5 (5.00%) VLAN
10 4 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (4.00%) HTTPS
11 3 (3.00%) DHCP
11 3 (3.00%) Internet
11 3 (3.00%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (3.00%) Unified Communications
12 2 (2.00%) NAS
12 2 (2.00%) TACACS
12 2 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.00%) Power BI
4 1 (1.00%) DB2
4 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
General
1 37 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Finance
3 10 (10.00%) Banking
4 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.00%) Law
6 2 (2.00%) Legal
6 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.00%) Advertising
7 1 (1.00%) Automotive
7 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (44.00%) Architect
2 19 (19.00%) Cloud Architect
3 15 (15.00%) AWS Architect
4 13 (13.00%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Consultant
6 10 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Security Architect
7 9 (9.00%) Cisco Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Lead
9 7 (7.00%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (7.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Cisco Support
9 7 (7.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Project Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Security Consultant
9 7 (7.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
1 16 (16.00%) Kafka
2 3 (3.00%) RESTful
3 2 (2.00%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.00%) SAML
4 1 (1.00%) Middleware
4 1 (1.00%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.00%) Management Information System
2 17 (17.00%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 8 (8.00%) Private Cloud
4 7 (7.00%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.00%) Security Posture
6 5 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (5.00%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (3.00%) Machine to Machine
7 3 (3.00%) PKI
7 3 (3.00%) Replication
8 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.00%) IoT
8 2 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.00%) NB-IoT
9 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.00%) Windows
2 10 (10.00%) Linux
3 9 (9.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.00%) CentOS
8 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.00%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Security Architecture
2 31 (31.00%) DevOps
3 30 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 28 (28.00%) Mentoring
4 28 (28.00%) Technical Leadership
5 27 (27.00%) Microservices
6 26 (26.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 26 (26.00%) Roadmaps
7 23 (23.00%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (23.00%) Incident Response
8 22 (22.00%) CI/CD
8 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (21.00%) Software Engineering
10 20 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
11 19 (19.00%) Agile
11 19 (19.00%) High Availability
12 18 (18.00%) Architectural Design
12 18 (18.00%) Containerisation
12 18 (18.00%) Data Protection
12 18 (18.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (16.00%) Java
3 11 (11.00%) Python
4 3 (3.00%) Bash
4 3 (3.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) AWS Certification
2 20 (20.00%) Degree
3 19 (19.00%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (17.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
5 16 (16.00%) SC Cleared
6 15 (15.00%) CCNP
6 15 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (13.00%) CCIE
8 10 (10.00%) CISSP
9 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
10 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (4.00%) CCSP
11 4 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (3.00%) CISM
13 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (2.00%) JNCIE
13 2 (2.00%) JNCIP
13 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.00%) GDPR
2 18 (18.00%) HIPAA
3 16 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (13.00%) NIST
5 7 (7.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (6.00%) NCSC
6 6 (6.00%) SOC 2
7 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (2.00%) COBIT
8 2 (2.00%) NIST 800
8 2 (2.00%) PCI DSS
8 2 (2.00%) SLA
9 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 26 (26.00%) Docker
2 19 (19.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.00%) Firmware
4 4 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.00%) vSphere
6 1 (1.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 30 (30.00%) Terraform
2 26 (26.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.00%) Grafana
3 16 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.00%) Ansible
6 3 (3.00%) Nessus
6 3 (3.00%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.00%) Puppet
7 2 (2.00%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.00%) VxRail
8 1 (1.00%) CASB
8 1 (1.00%) cPanel
8 1 (1.00%) SCCM
8 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.00%) Cisco
3 14 (14.00%) Palo Alto
4 13 (13.00%) VMware
5 12 (12.00%) Meraki
6 11 (11.00%) Aruba
6 11 (11.00%) Fortinet
6 11 (11.00%) Google
7 10 (10.00%) Zscaler
8 9 (9.00%) HP
9 7 (7.00%) SolarWinds
10 5 (5.00%) CheckPoint
11 4 (4.00%) Dell
12 3 (3.00%) Alibaba
12 3 (3.00%) Extreme Networks
12 3 (3.00%) IBM
12 3 (3.00%) Netskope
12 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
13 2 (2.00%) Okta
13 2 (2.00%) OneLogin