Zero Trust Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Zero Trust
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 519 480
Rank change year-on-year +141 -39 +291
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 49 77 195
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.23% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.25% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 41 64 52
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,510 £55,025
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,563 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -6.40% -10.39%
75th Percentile £76,840 £76,563 £83,125
90th Percentile - £90,000 £94,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,406 30,912 40,454
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.78% 91.49% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,748 23,470 28,078
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,767 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Zero Trust trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Zero Trust.

Zero Trust salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Zero Trust over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Zero Trust salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 26 (53.06%) AWS
2 20 (40.82%) Azure
3 16 (32.65%) Serverless
4 14 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (26.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (26.53%) AWS KMS
6 12 (24.49%) GCP
7 11 (22.45%) Entra ID
8 8 (16.33%) OpenShift
9 6 (12.24%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (10.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (8.16%) Route 53
12 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (6.12%) IBM Cloud
13 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
13 2 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (4.08%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (4.08%) SaaS
13 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (40.82%) Network Security
2 17 (34.69%) Firewall
3 11 (22.45%) VPN
3 11 (22.45%) WAN
4 10 (20.41%) SD-WAN
5 4 (8.16%) HTTPS
5 4 (8.16%) VLAN
6 3 (6.12%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (4.08%) Internet
7 2 (4.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (4.08%) TACACS
7 2 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.04%) BGP
8 1 (2.04%) DHCP
8 1 (2.04%) DNS
8 1 (2.04%) IPsec
8 1 (2.04%) LAN
8 1 (2.04%) MPLS
8 1 (2.04%) OSPF
8 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
General
1 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Banking
4 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.04%) Advertising
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (57.14%) Architect
2 16 (32.65%) AWS Architect
3 15 (30.61%) Cloud Architect
4 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Lead
8 3 (6.12%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Security Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Principal Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Principal Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) Kafka
2 13 (26.53%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.08%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.08%) SAML
4 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.61%) Management Information System
2 8 (16.33%) Private Cloud
3 7 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (2.04%) IoT
7 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) Technical Leadership
2 22 (44.90%) Architectural Patterns
2 22 (44.90%) Microservices
2 22 (44.90%) Software Engineering
3 21 (42.86%) DevOps
3 21 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 21 (42.86%) Security Architecture
4 19 (38.78%) Incident Response
5 18 (36.73%) Cost Optimisation
6 16 (32.65%) Cloud Security
6 16 (32.65%) Computer Science
7 15 (30.61%) Data Protection
7 15 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 14 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 14 (28.57%) Event-Driven
8 14 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 14 (28.57%) High Availability
8 14 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) Java
2 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) Python
4 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) AWS Certification
2 17 (34.69%) Degree
3 16 (32.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
5 14 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
6 5 (10.20%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
7 4 (8.16%) CCIE
7 4 (8.16%) CCNP
7 4 (8.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (6.12%) CISSP
9 2 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (4.08%) JNCIE
9 2 (4.08%) JNCIP
9 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
10 1 (2.04%) ACSP
10 1 (2.04%) CISM
10 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.69%) GDPR
2 16 (32.65%) HIPAA
3 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.12%) NIST
5 2 (4.08%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.04%) COBIT
6 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (2.04%) NCSC
6 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (44.90%) Docker
2 11 (22.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.08%) Firmware
5 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (44.90%) Kubernetes
2 15 (30.61%) Terraform
3 14 (28.57%) Grafana
3 14 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (8.16%) Nessus
6 1 (2.04%) Ansible
6 1 (2.04%) SCCM
6 1 (2.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.33%) Google
3 6 (12.24%) VMware
4 5 (10.20%) Cisco
4 5 (10.20%) Zscaler
5 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.12%) IBM
7 2 (4.08%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.08%) CyberArk
7 2 (4.08%) Hitachi
7 2 (4.08%) Meraki
7 2 (4.08%) Netskope
7 2 (4.08%) Okta
7 2 (4.08%) OneLogin
8 1 (2.04%) Citrix
8 1 (2.04%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (2.04%) Juniper
8 1 (2.04%) LogRhythm
8 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.04%) Tufin