Zero Trust
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Zero Trust skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Zero Trust over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 736 706 988
Rank change year-on-year -30 +282 -158
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 152 292 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 119 131 165
10th Percentile £41,150 £50,000 £42,050
25th Percentile £55,750 £60,590 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £94,475
90th Percentile £100,064 £98,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Zero Trust is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Top 14 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 8 May 2024. 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 -41 135 £65,000 -7.14% 30
UK excluding London -88 82 £62,783 -3.41% 18
Work from Home -42 77 £65,000 -6.40% 8
London +54 53 £72,500 -12.12% 13
North of England +15 46 £62,783 +6.41% 3
Yorkshire +60 19 £56,500 -4.24% 2
South East +21 17 £46,250 -38.33% 7
North West -12 15 £62,783 +47.72% 1
North East - 12 £42,500 -
South West -51 7 £95,128 +46.35% 3
East of England +13 5 £72,500 -3.33%
Scotland -74 5 £95,128 +36.98%
Midlands -7 2 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +1 1 £65,000 +44.44% 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 13 (8.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (68.42%) Azure
2 55 (36.18%) AWS
3 47 (30.92%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (19.08%) GCP
4 29 (19.08%) SaaS
5 28 (18.42%) PaaS
6 26 (17.11%) IaaS
7 24 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (15.13%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (13.16%) Entra ID
10 18 (11.84%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.95%) AWS CloudTrail
12 6 (3.95%) OneDrive
13 4 (2.63%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.97%) Datadog
15 2 (1.32%) Nutanix
16 1 (0.66%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (46.71%) Firewall
2 62 (40.79%) Network Security
3 43 (28.29%) WAN
4 41 (26.97%) LAN
5 26 (17.11%) VPN
6 23 (15.13%) TCP/IP
7 15 (9.87%) DNS
8 14 (9.21%) Wireshark
9 12 (7.89%) Internet
10 10 (6.58%) SD-WAN
11 9 (5.92%) BGP
11 9 (5.92%) MPLS
12 8 (5.26%) WLAN
13 7 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (3.95%) IGRP
14 6 (3.95%) IPv4
14 6 (3.95%) IPv6
14 6 (3.95%) SAN
14 6 (3.95%) VRRP
14 6 (3.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 19 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.61%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.92%) JIRA
2 6 (3.95%) Git
3 3 (1.97%) GitLab
3 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.97%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.66%) Snyk
General
1 52 (34.21%) Finance
2 25 (16.45%) Banking
3 22 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.84%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.95%) Law
7 5 (3.29%) Legal
8 4 (2.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.97%) Local Government
9 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.32%) Digital Economy
10 2 (1.32%) Games
10 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (26.32%) Architect
2 30 (19.74%) Senior
3 23 (15.13%) Security Engineer
4 20 (13.16%) Enterprise Architect
5 15 (9.87%) Consultant
6 14 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.55%) Lead
8 12 (7.89%) Analyst
8 12 (7.89%) Network Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) Security Architect
9 11 (7.24%) Information Security Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Team Leader
11 9 (5.92%) Product Owner
11 9 (5.92%) Senior Product Owner
12 8 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
12 8 (5.26%) Security Analyst
13 7 (4.61%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.16%) OpenID
2 5 (3.29%) Web Services
3 4 (2.63%) Kafka
4 3 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.97%) HTML
5 2 (1.32%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.66%) Micronaut
6 1 (0.66%) OAuth
6 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.66%) Quarkus
6 1 (0.66%) RESTful
6 1 (0.66%) Spring
6 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.71%) Management Information System
2 19 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 19 (12.50%) Mainframe
3 14 (9.21%) Data Centre
3 14 (9.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (8.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 13 (8.55%) Security Posture
5 12 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (5.92%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.61%) Cloud Native
9 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.63%) Blog
10 4 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (2.63%) PKI
11 3 (1.97%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.32%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 38 (25.00%) Windows
2 25 (16.45%) Unix
3 14 (9.21%) Android
3 14 (9.21%) Apple iOS
4 13 (8.55%) Linux
5 11 (7.24%) Windows Server
6 9 (5.92%) Windows 10
7 8 (5.26%) CentOS
8 6 (3.95%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.29%) Kali Linux
9 5 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (2.63%) Solaris
10 4 (2.63%) zOS
11 1 (0.66%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.37%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (39.47%) Roadmaps
3 54 (35.53%) Agile
4 48 (31.58%) Cloud Security
5 45 (29.61%) DevOps
5 45 (29.61%) SIEM
6 40 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
7 31 (20.39%) Information Security
8 30 (19.74%) Vulnerability Management
9 27 (17.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 27 (17.76%) Machine Learning
9 27 (17.76%) Security Management
9 27 (17.76%) Strategic Roadmap
10 23 (15.13%) Security Architecture
11 21 (13.82%) Data Loss Prevention
11 21 (13.82%) Microservices
11 21 (13.82%) Thought Leadership
12 20 (13.16%) Customer Service
12 20 (13.16%) Event-Driven
12 20 (13.16%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (19.08%) PowerShell
2 24 (15.79%) Python
3 7 (4.61%) SQL
4 3 (1.97%) C#
5 2 (1.32%) Bash
6 1 (0.66%) Go
6 1 (0.66%) Java
6 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (24.34%) CISSP
2 30 (19.74%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (16.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 25 (16.45%) CCSP
4 19 (12.50%) Degree
5 14 (9.21%) CEH
5 14 (9.21%) SANS
5 14 (9.21%) SSCP
6 10 (6.58%) CCNP
6 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
7 8 (5.26%) CCIE
8 7 (4.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.61%) CISM
9 6 (3.95%) CCIE Security
9 6 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
10 5 (3.29%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.29%) CCSK
11 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (40.13%) NIST
2 47 (30.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (13.16%) PCI DSS
4 14 (9.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (9.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 9 (5.92%) NCSC
6 6 (3.95%) GDPR
6 6 (3.95%) GRC
6 6 (3.95%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.32%) SLA
8 1 (0.66%) COBIT
8 1 (0.66%) IASME
8 1 (0.66%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (19.08%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (6.58%) Docker
4 6 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (17.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (10.53%) Terraform
3 14 (9.21%) Nmap
4 13 (8.55%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (7.24%) Ansible
6 5 (3.29%) Suricata
7 3 (1.97%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (1.97%) Kibana
7 3 (1.97%) Packer
7 3 (1.97%) Puppet
7 3 (1.97%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.66%) Anchore
9 1 (0.66%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (33.55%) Microsoft
2 42 (27.63%) Cisco
3 39 (25.66%) Splunk
4 21 (13.82%) Zscaler
5 18 (11.84%) Meraki
5 18 (11.84%) Qualys
6 14 (9.21%) Rapid7
6 14 (9.21%) Thycotic
7 13 (8.55%) Palo Alto
8 11 (7.24%) VMware
9 10 (6.58%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.26%) CheckPoint
10 8 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (5.26%) Juniper
11 6 (3.95%) Blue Coat
11 6 (3.95%) Fortinet
11 6 (3.95%) Netskope
11 6 (3.95%) Symantec
12 5 (3.29%) Red Hat
13 4 (2.63%) Aruba