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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 694 999
Rank change year-on-year -72 +305 -156
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 141 257 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.28% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 105 110 163
10th Percentile £40,148 £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 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +13.04% +21.56%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 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 1 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 -61 128 £65,000 -7.14% 35
Work from Home -51 79 £65,000 -7.14% 10
UK excluding London -113 65 £62,783 -3.41% 18
London +70 60 £72,500 -9.38% 16
North of England +4 39 £56,500 +32.94% 6
Yorkshire +43 16 £56,500 -4.24% 3
South East -5 12 £50,000 -45.95% 3
North East - 12 £42,500 -
North West -25 11 £62,783 +47.72% 3
East of England 0 5 £72,500 -3.33% 1
South West -47 5 £85,064 +22.49% 1
Midlands -25 2 £65,000 - 5
Scotland -83 2 £68,814 -0.91%
West Midlands -26 1 £65,000 +18.18% 2

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 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (65.25%) Azure
2 47 (33.33%) AWS
3 42 (29.79%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (18.44%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (16.31%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (12.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 18 (12.77%) Entra ID
7 17 (12.06%) GCP
8 16 (11.35%) SaaS
9 15 (10.64%) PaaS
10 14 (9.93%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (9.22%) IaaS
12 9 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (4.96%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (2.84%) Amazon S3
15 3 (2.13%) Datadog
15 3 (2.13%) GitHub
15 3 (2.13%) OneDrive
15 3 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (48.94%) Firewall
2 61 (43.26%) Network Security
3 45 (31.91%) WAN
4 41 (29.08%) LAN
5 24 (17.02%) VPN
6 23 (16.31%) TCP/IP
7 16 (11.35%) DNS
8 14 (9.93%) Wireshark
9 12 (8.51%) SD-WAN
10 11 (7.80%) Internet
11 9 (6.38%) BGP
11 9 (6.38%) MPLS
12 8 (5.67%) WLAN
13 7 (4.96%) IPv4
13 7 (4.96%) IPv6
13 7 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (4.26%) IGRP
14 6 (4.26%) SAN
14 6 (4.26%) VRRP
14 6 (4.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.26%) Data Lake
2 6 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.38%) JIRA
2 7 (4.96%) Git
3 3 (2.13%) GitLab
3 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.13%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.71%) Snyk
General
1 39 (27.66%) Finance
2 23 (16.31%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.77%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.51%) Banking
5 9 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.26%) Legal
7 5 (3.55%) Law
8 4 (2.84%) Retail
9 3 (2.13%) Local Government
9 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.42%) Digital Economy
10 2 (1.42%) Games
10 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Advertising
11 1 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (21.99%) Senior
2 27 (19.15%) Architect
3 22 (15.60%) Security Engineer
4 15 (10.64%) Consultant
4 15 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (9.93%) Lead
6 13 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (9.22%) Network Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) Analyst
8 11 (7.80%) Information Security Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Security Architect
9 10 (7.09%) Team Leader
10 9 (6.38%) Product Owner
10 9 (6.38%) Senior Product Owner
11 8 (5.67%) Security Analyst
12 7 (4.96%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (4.96%) Solutions Consultant
13 6 (4.26%) Senior Network Engineer
13 6 (4.26%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.38%) OpenID
2 6 (4.26%) Web Services
3 4 (2.84%) Kafka
4 3 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.13%) OAuth
4 3 (2.13%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.42%) HTML
5 2 (1.42%) Micronaut
5 2 (1.42%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.42%) Quarkus
5 2 (1.42%) RESTful
5 2 (1.42%) Spring
5 2 (1.42%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.71%) LDAP
6 1 (0.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.40%) Management Information System
2 14 (9.93%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.93%) Security Operations Centre
3 13 (9.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (7.80%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.80%) Security Posture
5 9 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.26%) Blockchain
6 6 (4.26%) Mainframe
7 5 (3.55%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.84%) Blog
8 4 (2.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.84%) PKI
9 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 40 (28.37%) Windows
2 14 (9.93%) Android
2 14 (9.93%) Apple iOS
3 13 (9.22%) Linux
3 13 (9.22%) Windows Server
4 12 (8.51%) Unix
5 9 (6.38%) Windows 10
6 8 (5.67%) CentOS
7 6 (4.26%) Ubuntu
8 5 (3.55%) Kali Linux
8 5 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (2.84%) Solaris
9 4 (2.84%) zOS
10 1 (0.71%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.72%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (34.04%) Cloud Security
2 48 (34.04%) DevOps
3 45 (31.91%) SIEM
4 43 (30.50%) Roadmaps
5 42 (29.79%) Agile
6 40 (28.37%) Identity Access Management
7 29 (20.57%) Information Security
7 29 (20.57%) Vulnerability Management
8 25 (17.73%) Security Management
9 22 (15.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (14.89%) Security Architecture
11 20 (14.18%) CI/CD
11 20 (14.18%) Cryptography
11 20 (14.18%) Data Loss Prevention
11 20 (14.18%) Key Management
11 20 (14.18%) Security Operations
12 19 (13.48%) Validation
13 18 (12.77%) Ethical Hacking
14 17 (12.06%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.28%) PowerShell
2 26 (18.44%) Python
3 6 (4.26%) SQL
4 2 (1.42%) Bash
4 2 (1.42%) C#
4 2 (1.42%) Java
5 1 (0.71%) Go
5 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (23.40%) CISSP
2 27 (19.15%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (15.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 22 (15.60%) CCSP
4 17 (12.06%) Degree
5 14 (9.93%) CEH
5 14 (9.93%) SANS
5 14 (9.93%) SSCP
6 11 (7.80%) Security Cleared
7 9 (6.38%) CCNP
8 7 (4.96%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.96%) CCIE
8 7 (4.96%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.26%) CISM
9 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared
10 5 (3.55%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.55%) CCIE Security
11 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.13%) CCSK
13 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (41.13%) NIST
2 45 (31.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (14.18%) PCI DSS
4 12 (8.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 10 (7.09%) NCSC
6 6 (4.26%) GRC
6 6 (4.26%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.84%) GDPR
8 2 (1.42%) SLA
8 2 (1.42%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.71%) COBIT
9 1 (0.71%) IASME
9 1 (0.71%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 26 (18.44%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.93%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (9.22%) Docker
4 6 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (17.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (14.89%) Terraform
3 14 (9.93%) Ansible
3 14 (9.93%) Nmap
3 14 (9.93%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.55%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.55%) Suricata
5 3 (2.13%) Kibana
5 3 (2.13%) Packer
5 3 (2.13%) Puppet
6 2 (1.42%) Argo
6 2 (1.42%) CASB
6 2 (1.42%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.42%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (1.42%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.71%) Anchore
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.71%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 45 (31.91%) Microsoft
2 40 (28.37%) Cisco
3 38 (26.95%) Splunk
4 22 (15.60%) Zscaler
5 19 (13.48%) Qualys
6 18 (12.77%) Meraki
7 14 (9.93%) Rapid7
7 14 (9.93%) Thycotic
8 12 (8.51%) Palo Alto
9 11 (7.80%) VMware
10 10 (7.09%) ServiceNow
11 8 (5.67%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (5.67%) Juniper
12 7 (4.96%) CheckPoint
13 5 (3.55%) Blue Coat
13 5 (3.55%) Fortinet
13 5 (3.55%) Netskope
13 5 (3.55%) Red Hat
13 5 (3.55%) Symantec
14 4 (2.84%) Google