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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 737 694 984
Rank change year-on-year -43 +290 -132
Permanent jobs citing Zero Trust 147 287 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 114 129 165
10th Percentile £40,900 £50,000 £42,050
25th Percentile £55,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,064 £98,000 £121,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -3.41% +6.12% +30.87%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -35 131 £65,000 -7.14% 31
Work from Home -25 78 £65,000 -6.40% 7
UK excluding London -89 75 £62,783 -3.41% 17
London +43 55 £72,500 -12.12% 17
North of England +8 44 £62,783 +6.41% 3
Yorkshire +61 18 £56,500 -4.24% 2
South East +15 14 £50,000 -45.95% 5
North West -20 14 £62,783 +47.72% 1
North East - 12 £42,500 -
South West -47 6 £95,128 +41.51% 3
East of England +7 5 £72,500 -3.33%
Scotland -81 4 £95,128 +36.98% 1
Midlands -19 2 £65,000 - 3
West Midlands +1 1 £65,000 +18.18% 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 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (67.35%) Azure
2 52 (35.37%) AWS
3 44 (29.93%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (17.01%) GCP
4 25 (17.01%) SaaS
5 24 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (16.33%) PaaS
6 23 (15.65%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (14.97%) IaaS
8 18 (12.24%) Azure Sentinel
8 18 (12.24%) Entra ID
9 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (4.08%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (2.72%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.72%) OneDrive
13 3 (2.04%) Datadog
14 2 (1.36%) GitHub
14 2 (1.36%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 71 (48.30%) Firewall
2 61 (41.50%) Network Security
3 43 (29.25%) WAN
4 41 (27.89%) LAN
5 25 (17.01%) VPN
6 23 (15.65%) TCP/IP
7 15 (10.20%) DNS
8 14 (9.52%) Wireshark
9 12 (8.16%) Internet
10 10 (6.80%) SD-WAN
11 9 (6.12%) BGP
11 9 (6.12%) MPLS
12 8 (5.44%) WLAN
13 7 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (4.08%) IGRP
14 6 (4.08%) IPv4
14 6 (4.08%) IPv6
14 6 (4.08%) SAN
14 6 (4.08%) VRRP
14 6 (4.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.88%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (10.20%) Data Lake
2 15 (10.20%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.12%) JIRA
2 6 (4.08%) Git
3 3 (2.04%) GitLab
3 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.68%) Snyk
General
1 47 (31.97%) Finance
2 22 (14.97%) Public Sector
3 21 (14.29%) Banking
4 18 (12.24%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.40%) Law
6 5 (3.40%) Legal
7 4 (2.72%) Retail
8 3 (2.04%) Local Government
8 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.36%) Digital Economy
9 2 (1.36%) Games
9 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Architect
2 29 (19.73%) Senior
3 23 (15.65%) Security Engineer
4 16 (10.88%) Consultant
4 16 (10.88%) Enterprise Architect
5 14 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.52%) Lead
6 13 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Analyst
8 11 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (7.48%) Information Security Engineer
8 11 (7.48%) Network Engineer
8 11 (7.48%) Security Architect
9 10 (6.80%) Team Leader
10 9 (6.12%) Product Owner
10 9 (6.12%) Senior Product Owner
11 8 (5.44%) Security Analyst
12 7 (4.76%) Security Consultant
12 7 (4.76%) Solutions Consultant
13 6 (4.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.88%) OpenID
2 5 (3.40%) Web Services
3 4 (2.72%) Kafka
4 3 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.36%) HTML
5 2 (1.36%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.68%) Micronaut
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.68%) Quarkus
6 1 (0.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.68%) Spring
6 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.45%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.20%) Blockchain
2 15 (10.20%) Mainframe
3 14 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 14 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 13 (8.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 13 (8.84%) Security Posture
5 11 (7.48%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
8 6 (4.08%) Cloud Native
9 5 (3.40%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.72%) Blog
10 4 (2.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (2.04%) PKI
11 3 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.36%) Blackberry
12 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.36%) Hedge funds
12 2 (1.36%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 38 (25.85%) Windows
2 21 (14.29%) Unix
3 14 (9.52%) Android
3 14 (9.52%) Apple iOS
4 13 (8.84%) Linux
5 11 (7.48%) Windows Server
6 9 (6.12%) Windows 10
7 8 (5.44%) CentOS
8 6 (4.08%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.40%) Kali Linux
9 5 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (2.72%) Solaris
10 4 (2.72%) zOS
11 1 (0.68%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.90%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (36.73%) Roadmaps
3 50 (34.01%) Agile
4 49 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 46 (31.29%) SIEM
6 44 (29.93%) DevOps
7 40 (27.21%) Identity Access Management
8 30 (20.41%) Information Security
8 30 (20.41%) Vulnerability Management
9 26 (17.69%) Security Management
10 23 (15.65%) Artificial Intelligence
10 23 (15.65%) Machine Learning
10 23 (15.65%) Strategic Roadmap
11 22 (14.97%) Security Architecture
12 21 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
13 20 (13.61%) Cryptography
13 20 (13.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (13.61%) Key Management
13 20 (13.61%) Security Operations
14 19 (12.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 24 (16.33%) Python
3 6 (4.08%) SQL
4 2 (1.36%) Bash
4 2 (1.36%) C#
5 1 (0.68%) Go
5 1 (0.68%) Java
5 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 36 (24.49%) CISSP
2 29 (19.73%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (16.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 24 (16.33%) CCSP
4 18 (12.24%) Degree
5 14 (9.52%) CEH
5 14 (9.52%) SANS
5 14 (9.52%) SSCP
6 10 (6.80%) CCNP
6 10 (6.80%) Security Cleared
7 8 (5.44%) CCIE
8 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.76%) CISM
9 6 (4.08%) CCIE Security
9 6 (4.08%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
10 5 (3.40%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.72%) CCSK
11 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (40.82%) NIST
2 47 (31.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (13.61%) PCI DSS
4 13 (8.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (8.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 9 (6.12%) NCSC
6 6 (4.08%) GRC
6 6 (4.08%) NIST 800
7 5 (3.40%) GDPR
8 2 (1.36%) SLA
8 2 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.68%) COBIT
9 1 (0.68%) IASME
9 1 (0.68%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 26 (17.69%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (7.48%) Docker
4 6 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (17.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (11.56%) Terraform
3 14 (9.52%) Nmap
4 13 (8.84%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (7.48%) Ansible
6 5 (3.40%) Suricata
7 3 (2.04%) Kibana
7 3 (2.04%) Packer
7 3 (2.04%) Puppet
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.36%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (1.36%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.68%) Anchore
9 1 (0.68%) Argo
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 47 (31.97%) Microsoft
2 41 (27.89%) Cisco
3 38 (25.85%) Splunk
4 23 (15.65%) Zscaler
5 19 (12.93%) Qualys
6 18 (12.24%) Meraki
7 14 (9.52%) Rapid7
7 14 (9.52%) Thycotic
8 13 (8.84%) Palo Alto
9 11 (7.48%) VMware
10 10 (6.80%) ServiceNow
11 9 (6.12%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (5.44%) CheckPoint
12 8 (5.44%) Juniper
13 6 (4.08%) Blue Coat
13 6 (4.08%) Fortinet
13 6 (4.08%) Netskope
13 6 (4.08%) Symantec
14 5 (3.40%) Red Hat
15 4 (2.72%) Intel