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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 725 689 978
Rank change year-on-year -36 +289 -135
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 152 294 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 120 132 163
10th Percentile £41,200 £50,475 £44,100
25th Percentile £55,750 £60,885 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,001 £96,250
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 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 2 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 2 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 -35 135 £65,000 -7.14% 25
UK excluding London -80 82 £62,783 -3.41% 16
Work from Home -24 77 £65,000 -6.40% 6
London +51 53 £72,500 -12.12% 11
North of England +17 46 £62,783 +6.41% 1
Yorkshire +72 19 £56,500 -4.24% 1
South East +26 17 £42,500 -43.33% 7
North West -14 15 £62,783 +12.16%
North East - 12 £42,500 -
South West -52 7 £95,128 +46.35% 3
East of England +16 5 £72,500 -3.33%
Scotland -72 5 £95,128 +36.98%
Midlands -2 2 £65,000 +44.44% 2
West Midlands +15 1 £65,000 +44.44%

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 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (68.42%) Azure
2 54 (35.53%) AWS
3 48 (31.58%) 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 22 (14.47%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (13.82%) Entra ID
10 18 (11.84%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (4.61%) OneDrive
13 6 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.95%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (2.63%) Amazon S3
15 3 (1.97%) Datadog
16 2 (1.32%) Nutanix
17 1 (0.66%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (46.05%) Firewall
2 61 (40.13%) Network Security
3 43 (28.29%) WAN
4 41 (26.97%) LAN
5 25 (16.45%) VPN
6 23 (15.13%) TCP/IP
7 15 (9.87%) DNS
8 14 (9.21%) Wireshark
9 11 (7.24%) 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 39 (25.66%) 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
9 11 (7.24%) Information Security Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) Security Architect
10 10 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Team Leader
11 9 (5.92%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Engineer
11 9 (5.92%) Product Owner
11 9 (5.92%) Senior Product Owner
12 8 (5.26%) Security Analyst
13 7 (4.61%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.16%) OpenID
2 4 (2.63%) Kafka
2 4 (2.63%) Web Services
3 3 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.97%) HTML
4 2 (1.32%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.66%) Micronaut
5 1 (0.66%) OAuth
5 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.66%) Quarkus
5 1 (0.66%) RESTful
5 1 (0.66%) Spring
5 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 19 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 19 (12.50%) Mainframe
3 14 (9.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (8.55%) Data Centre
4 13 (8.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 12 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (7.89%) Security Posture
6 9 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (5.92%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.61%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.63%) Blog
9 4 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.63%) PKI
10 3 (1.97%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.32%) Blackberry
11 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 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%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (2.63%) Kali Linux
10 4 (2.63%) Solaris
10 4 (2.63%) zOS
11 1 (0.66%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.71%) Cybersecurity
2 61 (40.13%) Roadmaps
3 54 (35.53%) Agile
4 48 (31.58%) Cloud Security
5 45 (29.61%) DevOps
6 44 (28.95%) SIEM
7 39 (25.66%) Identity Access Management
8 31 (20.39%) Information Security
9 29 (19.08%) Vulnerability Management
10 27 (17.76%) Artificial Intelligence
10 27 (17.76%) Machine Learning
10 27 (17.76%) Security Management
10 27 (17.76%) Strategic Roadmap
11 22 (14.47%) Security Architecture
12 21 (13.82%) Microservices
12 21 (13.82%) Thought Leadership
13 20 (13.16%) Customer Service
13 20 (13.16%) Data Loss Prevention
13 20 (13.16%) Event-Driven
13 20 (13.16%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 23 (15.13%) 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 36 (23.68%) CISSP
2 30 (19.74%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (16.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 25 (16.45%) CCSP
4 18 (11.84%) 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%) CISM
9 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.95%) CCIE Security
9 6 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
10 5 (3.29%) CCSK
11 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.32%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (39.47%) NIST
2 46 (30.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (12.50%) PCI DSS
4 14 (9.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (8.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 9 (5.92%) NCSC
7 6 (3.95%) GDPR
7 6 (3.95%) GRC
7 6 (3.95%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.32%) SLA
9 1 (0.66%) COBIT
9 1 (0.66%) IASME
9 1 (0.66%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (19.74%) 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 28 (18.42%) 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 4 (2.63%) 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 41 (26.97%) Cisco
3 38 (25.00%) 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 12 (7.89%) Palo Alto
8 11 (7.24%) VMware
9 10 (6.58%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.26%) CheckPoint
10 8 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (4.61%) Juniper
12 6 (3.95%) Blue Coat
12 6 (3.95%) Fortinet
12 6 (3.95%) Netskope
12 6 (3.95%) Symantec
13 5 (3.29%) Red Hat
14 4 (2.63%) Intel