Zero Trust Jobs

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 692 1002
Rank change year-on-year -73 +310 -148
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 137 258 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.29% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 101 110 163
10th Percentile £39,747 £47,000 £41,650
25th Percentile £55,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,188 £93,488
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -3.41% +6.12% +30.17%

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 88,012 90,290 162,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.51% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,295 54,552 83,502
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,909
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -37 124 £65,000 -7.14% 38
Work from Home -59 77 £65,000 -7.14% 11
UK excluding London -108 62 £62,783 -3.41% 20
London +55 59 £72,500 -9.38% 17
North of England -5 37 £56,500 +32.94% 6
Yorkshire +41 14 £56,500 -4.24% 3
North East - 12 £42,500 -
South East +15 11 £59,874 -35.27% 4
North West -33 11 £62,783 +47.72% 3
East of England -7 5 £72,500 -3.33% 1
South West -46 5 £85,064 +22.49% 1
Midlands -31 2 £65,000 - 6
Scotland -92 2 £68,814 -0.91%
West Midlands -17 1 £65,000 +18.18% 3

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 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (64.96%) Azure
2 46 (33.58%) AWS
3 40 (29.20%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (17.52%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (15.33%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (13.14%) Entra ID
7 16 (11.68%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (11.68%) GCP
8 15 (10.95%) SaaS
9 14 (10.22%) PaaS
10 12 (8.76%) IaaS
10 12 (8.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (5.11%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
14 3 (2.19%) Datadog
14 3 (2.19%) GitHub
14 3 (2.19%) OneDrive
14 3 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 67 (48.91%) Firewall
2 59 (43.07%) Network Security
3 42 (30.66%) WAN
4 39 (28.47%) LAN
5 24 (17.52%) VPN
6 21 (15.33%) TCP/IP
7 16 (11.68%) DNS
8 12 (8.76%) SD-WAN
8 12 (8.76%) Wireshark
9 11 (8.03%) Internet
10 9 (6.57%) BGP
10 9 (6.57%) MPLS
11 8 (5.84%) WLAN
12 7 (5.11%) IPv4
12 7 (5.11%) IPv6
13 6 (4.38%) IGRP
13 6 (4.38%) VPLS
13 6 (4.38%) VRRP
13 6 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (4.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.65%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) JIRA
2 7 (5.11%) Git
3 3 (2.19%) GitLab
3 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 36 (26.28%) Finance
2 22 (16.06%) Public Sector
3 18 (13.14%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.03%) Banking
5 9 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.38%) Legal
7 5 (3.65%) Law
8 4 (2.92%) Retail
9 3 (2.19%) Local Government
9 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.46%) Digital Economy
10 2 (1.46%) Games
10 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Advertising
11 1 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (22.63%) Senior
2 26 (18.98%) Architect
3 20 (14.60%) Security Engineer
4 15 (10.95%) Consultant
4 15 (10.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (9.49%) Network Engineer
7 12 (8.76%) Analyst
7 12 (8.76%) Lead
8 11 (8.03%) Security Architect
9 9 (6.57%) Information Security Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Product Owner
9 9 (6.57%) Senior Product Owner
10 8 (5.84%) Security Analyst
10 8 (5.84%) Team Leader
11 7 (5.11%) Solutions Consultant
12 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Network Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.84%) OpenID
2 6 (4.38%) Web Services
3 4 (2.92%) Kafka
4 3 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.19%) OAuth
4 3 (2.19%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.46%) HTML
5 2 (1.46%) Micronaut
5 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.46%) Quarkus
5 2 (1.46%) RESTful
5 2 (1.46%) Spring
5 2 (1.46%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.73%) LDAP
6 1 (0.73%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (22.63%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.22%) Data Centre
3 13 (9.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 12 (8.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (8.03%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (8.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (8.03%) Security Posture
6 9 (6.57%) Cloud Native
6 9 (6.57%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.65%) Blockchain
7 5 (3.65%) Mainframe
7 5 (3.65%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.92%) Blog
8 4 (2.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.92%) PKI
9 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (27.74%) Windows
2 13 (9.49%) Linux
2 13 (9.49%) Windows Server
3 12 (8.76%) Android
3 12 (8.76%) Apple iOS
4 11 (8.03%) Unix
5 9 (6.57%) Windows 10
6 8 (5.84%) CentOS
7 6 (4.38%) Ubuntu
8 5 (3.65%) Kali Linux
8 5 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (2.92%) Solaris
9 4 (2.92%) zOS
10 1 (0.73%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.96%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (33.58%) Cloud Security
2 46 (33.58%) DevOps
3 43 (31.39%) SIEM
4 39 (28.47%) Agile
4 39 (28.47%) Roadmaps
5 38 (27.74%) Identity Access Management
6 27 (19.71%) Information Security
6 27 (19.71%) Vulnerability Management
7 23 (16.79%) Security Management
8 22 (16.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (15.33%) Security Architecture
10 20 (14.60%) CI/CD
11 18 (13.14%) Cryptography
11 18 (13.14%) Data Loss Prevention
11 18 (13.14%) Key Management
11 18 (13.14%) Security Operations
12 17 (12.41%) Incident Response
12 17 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (12.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.44%) PowerShell
2 24 (17.52%) Python
3 6 (4.38%) SQL
4 2 (1.46%) Bash
4 2 (1.46%) C#
4 2 (1.46%) Java
5 1 (0.73%) Go
5 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (22.63%) CISSP
2 25 (18.25%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (14.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 20 (14.60%) CCSP
4 17 (12.41%) Degree
5 12 (8.76%) CEH
5 12 (8.76%) SANS
5 12 (8.76%) SSCP
6 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
7 9 (6.57%) CCNP
8 7 (5.11%) Azure Certification
8 7 (5.11%) CCIE
8 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.38%) CISM
9 6 (4.38%) SC Cleared
10 5 (3.65%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.65%) CCIE Security
11 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.19%) CCSK
13 2 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (40.88%) NIST
2 43 (31.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (13.14%) PCI DSS
4 12 (8.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 10 (7.30%) NCSC
6 6 (4.38%) GRC
6 6 (4.38%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.92%) GDPR
8 2 (1.46%) SLA
8 2 (1.46%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.73%) COBIT
9 1 (0.73%) IASME
9 1 (0.73%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 26 (18.98%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.49%) Docker
3 12 (8.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (16.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (15.33%) Terraform
3 14 (10.22%) Ansible
3 14 (10.22%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (8.76%) Nmap
5 5 (3.65%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.65%) Suricata
6 3 (2.19%) Kibana
6 3 (2.19%) Packer
6 3 (2.19%) Puppet
7 2 (1.46%) Argo
7 2 (1.46%) CASB
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.46%) Stealthwatch
7 2 (1.46%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.73%) Anchore
8 1 (0.73%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.73%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 43 (31.39%) Microsoft
2 40 (29.20%) Cisco
3 36 (26.28%) Splunk
4 22 (16.06%) Zscaler
5 18 (13.14%) Meraki
6 17 (12.41%) Qualys
7 12 (8.76%) Palo Alto
7 12 (8.76%) Rapid7
7 12 (8.76%) Thycotic
8 11 (8.03%) VMware
9 10 (7.30%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.84%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (5.84%) Juniper
11 7 (5.11%) CheckPoint
12 5 (3.65%) Blue Coat
12 5 (3.65%) Fortinet
12 5 (3.65%) Netskope
12 5 (3.65%) Red Hat
12 5 (3.65%) Symantec
13 4 (2.92%) Google