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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 613 751 678
Rank change year-on-year +138 -73 +291
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 99 150 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.15% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 78 117 132
10th Percentile £49,250 £41,050 £50,475
25th Percentile £57,813 £55,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £79,760 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,675 £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 51,972 84,955 96,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.89% 85.58% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,632 59,894 57,116
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,002 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,365 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.73% -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 13 May 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 13 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
England +102 83 £60,000 -7.69% 159
Work from Home +86 49 £60,000 -7.69% 113
UK excluding London +152 48 £65,000 +3.53% 86
London +89 42 £60,000 -17.24% 89
Midlands +88 19 £62,500 -3.85% 19
East Midlands - 11 £65,000 - 10
Scotland +128 9 £74,870 -21.30% 4
North of England +13 9 £67,246 +7.11% 14
West Midlands +55 8 £46,000 -29.23% 9
North West +5 8 £62,500 -0.45% 10
South East +88 4 £75,000 +62.16% 34
South West +115 3 £60,000 -36.93% 11
Wales - 2 £46,367 -
Yorkshire +54 1 £71,991 +27.42% 4
East of England +36 1 £50,000 -31.03% 2
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 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.02%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 55 (55.56%) Azure
2 42 (42.42%) AWS
3 23 (23.23%) Entra ID
3 23 (23.23%) GCP
4 19 (19.19%) Serverless
5 17 (17.17%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (13.13%) AWS KMS
8 10 (10.10%) SaaS
9 9 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (9.09%) OpenShift
10 8 (8.08%) IaaS
10 8 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (4.04%) PaaS
13 4 (4.04%) Route 53
13 4 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (35.35%) Firewall
2 32 (32.32%) WAN
3 31 (31.31%) SD-WAN
4 27 (27.27%) Network Security
5 20 (20.20%) VPN
6 13 (13.13%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (12.12%) LAN
8 9 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (6.06%) DNS
10 4 (4.04%) HTTPS
10 4 (4.04%) MPLS
10 4 (4.04%) VLAN
11 3 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (3.03%) DHCP
11 3 (3.03%) Internet
11 3 (3.03%) Unified Communications
12 2 (2.02%) NAS
12 2 (2.02%) SAN
12 2 (2.02%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (2.02%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.02%) Power BI
4 1 (1.01%) DB2
4 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.01%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.01%) MLflow
General
1 37 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.15%) Finance
3 10 (10.10%) Banking
4 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Law
6 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.03%) Legal
8 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.01%) Advertising
9 1 (1.01%) Automotive
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (43.43%) Architect
2 18 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
3 16 (16.16%) AWS Architect
4 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (11.11%) Security Architect
6 10 (10.10%) Consultant
6 10 (10.10%) Network Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Cisco Support
9 7 (7.07%) Cisco Support Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Lead
9 7 (7.07%) Project Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Security Consultant
9 7 (7.07%) Security Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) Kafka
2 15 (15.15%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.03%) RESTful
4 2 (2.02%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.02%) SAML
5 1 (1.01%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.01%) LangChain
5 1 (1.01%) Middleware
5 1 (1.01%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.01%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.01%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Management Information System
2 18 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.08%) Operational Technology
3 8 (8.08%) Private Cloud
4 7 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.06%) Security Posture
6 5 (5.05%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (5.05%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (4.04%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (3.03%) Machine to Machine
8 3 (3.03%) PKI
8 3 (3.03%) Replication
9 2 (2.02%) IoT
9 2 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.01%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.01%) NB-IoT
10 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.19%) Windows
2 11 (11.11%) Linux
3 9 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.04%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.01%) CentOS
8 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.01%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.34%) Security Architecture
2 30 (30.30%) Cloud Security
2 30 (30.30%) DevOps
3 28 (28.28%) Mentoring
3 28 (28.28%) Technical Leadership
4 27 (27.27%) Microservices
5 26 (26.26%) Roadmaps
6 24 (24.24%) Architectural Patterns
6 24 (24.24%) Incident Response
7 23 (23.23%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 22 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 20 (20.20%) Cost Optimisation
10 19 (19.19%) Agile
10 19 (19.19%) Containerisation
10 19 (19.19%) High Availability
11 18 (18.18%) Data Protection
12 17 (17.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 17 (17.17%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.20%) PowerShell
2 16 (16.16%) Java
3 12 (12.12%) Python
4 3 (3.03%) Bash
4 3 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 21 (21.21%) Degree
3 18 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (17.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (17.17%) Security Cleared
5 16 (16.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (15.15%) SC Cleared
7 14 (14.14%) CCNP
8 13 (13.13%) CCIE
9 10 (10.10%) CISSP
10 8 (8.08%) Azure Certification
11 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (4.04%) CCSP
12 4 (4.04%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (3.03%) CISM
14 2 (2.02%) CRISC
14 2 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (2.02%) JNCIE
14 2 (2.02%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.26%) GDPR
2 18 (18.18%) HIPAA
2 18 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (14.14%) NIST
4 7 (7.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (7.07%) SOC 2
5 6 (6.06%) NCSC
6 3 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.02%) COBIT
7 2 (2.02%) NIST 800
7 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.02%) SLA
8 1 (1.01%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 27 (27.27%) Docker
2 19 (19.19%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.03%) Firmware
5 3 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.03%) vSphere
6 1 (1.01%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (29.29%) Terraform
2 27 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.16%) Grafana
3 16 (16.16%) Prometheus
4 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (7.07%) Ansible
6 4 (4.04%) Nessus
7 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.03%) Puppet
8 2 (2.02%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.02%) VxRail
9 1 (1.01%) CASB
9 1 (1.01%) cPanel
9 1 (1.01%) SCCM
9 1 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 20 (20.20%) Cisco
3 14 (14.14%) VMware
4 13 (13.13%) Palo Alto
5 11 (11.11%) Google
5 11 (11.11%) Meraki
6 10 (10.10%) Aruba
6 10 (10.10%) Fortinet
6 10 (10.10%) Zscaler
7 9 (9.09%) HP
8 6 (6.06%) SolarWinds
9 5 (5.05%) CheckPoint
10 4 (4.04%) Dell
10 4 (4.04%) IBM
11 3 (3.03%) Alibaba
11 3 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.02%) Netskope
12 2 (2.02%) Okta
12 2 (2.02%) OneLogin