Zero Trust Jobs in the West Midlands

Zero Trust
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 257 258
Rank change year-on-year +68 +1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 8 1 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.014% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.016% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile - - £40,516
25th Percentile £44,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% +44.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £64,375 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,550 - £73,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,999 6,115 6,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.30% 82.87% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,561 3,202
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,716 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Zero Trust in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Zero Trust in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham +42 5 £46,000 -29.23% 4
Coventry - 1 £81,500 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £50,000 - 4
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (50.00%) Route 53
4 2 (25.00%) IaaS
4 2 (25.00%) PaaS
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 4 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (50.00%) VLAN
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) 5G
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (12.50%) Modbus
3 1 (12.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) NB-IoT
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Security Operations
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 4 (50.00%) Proactive Management
2 4 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Management
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Certification
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Certification
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) MCP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certified Master
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Netskope
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) VMware