Zero Trust Contracts in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Zero Trust skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Zero Trust over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 383 477
Rank change year-on-year +104 +94 -45
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 110 71 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.30% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.34% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 43 20
10th Percentile - £480 £271
25th Percentile £625 £531 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +3.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £850 £693 £669
90th Percentile - £698 £800
UK median daily rate £700 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 3
10th Percentile - - £43.18
25th Percentile - - £46.49
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year - +34.62% -
75th Percentile - - £59.63
90th Percentile - - £64.20
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +34.62% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Zero Trust is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,155 20,842 27,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,227 14,395 19,059
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,276 1,366
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.93 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.16
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.46
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +38 46 £650 +13.04% 2
North of England +51 45 £850 +50.71% 3
North West +56 44 £850 +50.71% 1
South East +15 14 £733 +4.94% 5
Midlands +23 3 £750 +42.86% 2
West Midlands +23 3 £750 +62.16% 1
Scotland +38 2 £775 - 1
Yorkshire +19 1 £525 -16.00% 2
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Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.82%) Confluence
1 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.73%) PaaS
1 36 (32.73%) SaaS
2 29 (26.36%) IaaS
3 27 (24.55%) Cloud Computing
4 16 (14.55%) AWS
5 9 (8.18%) Azure
6 6 (5.45%) GCP
7 4 (3.64%) OCI
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.82%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.82%) GitHub
8 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 43 (39.09%) VPN
2 40 (36.36%) Firewall
3 35 (31.82%) WAN
4 32 (29.09%) LAN
5 8 (7.27%) PBX
5 8 (7.27%) VoIP
6 4 (3.64%) MPLS
6 4 (3.64%) Unified Communications
6 4 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.91%) Internet
7 1 (0.91%) Network Security
7 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) Data Lake
1 4 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 44 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (8.18%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.27%) Telecoms
4 7 (6.36%) Digital Economy
4 7 (6.36%) Legal
5 5 (4.55%) Finance
6 4 (3.64%) Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (82.73%) Architect
2 40 (36.36%) Technical Architect
3 34 (30.91%) Lead
3 34 (30.91%) Lead Architect
4 32 (29.09%) Network Architect
5 30 (27.27%) Technical Leader
6 10 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (8.18%) Cloud Architect
8 7 (6.36%) Network Specialist
9 5 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Digital Architect
9 5 (4.55%) Digital Technical Architect
10 4 (3.64%) Security Architect
11 3 (2.73%) Network Engineer
11 3 (2.73%) Security Engineer
12 2 (1.82%) AWS Architect
12 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Architect
12 2 (1.82%) Lead Cloud Architect
12 2 (1.82%) Mobile Architect
13 1 (0.91%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (38.18%) Node.js
2 4 (3.64%) OpenID
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.73%) Kafka
4 2 (1.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 34 (30.91%) Data Centre
2 32 (29.09%) Public Cloud
3 9 (8.18%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.27%) Blackberry
4 8 (7.27%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (6.36%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.64%) Blockchain
6 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.91%) BYOD
8 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.91%) IoT
8 1 (0.91%) PKI
8 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (41.82%) Windows
2 42 (38.18%) Android
2 42 (38.18%) Apple iOS
2 42 (38.18%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.73%) Linux
3 3 (2.73%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.82%) Security Architecture
2 42 (38.18%) CI/CD
3 40 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 40 (36.36%) Mobile Device Management
3 40 (36.36%) Risk Management
3 40 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
4 34 (30.91%) Agile
5 31 (28.18%) Network Management
6 30 (27.27%) DevOps
7 27 (24.55%) Business Strategy
7 27 (24.55%) Design Patterns
7 27 (24.55%) Open Source
8 22 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 16 (14.55%) Microservices
9 16 (14.55%) Strategic Roadmap
10 10 (9.09%) ArchiMate
10 10 (9.09%) TOGAF
11 9 (8.18%) Decision-Making
11 9 (8.18%) ITIL
11 9 (8.18%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
2 1 (0.91%) C
2 1 (0.91%) Python
Qualifications
1 69 (62.73%) Security Cleared
2 42 (38.18%) DV Cleared
3 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.27%) Degree
5 7 (6.36%) HND
5 7 (6.36%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.73%) CCIE
7 3 (2.73%) CCNP
7 3 (2.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.82%) CISSP
9 1 (0.91%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.64%) NIST
2 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.91%) Ansible
2 1 (0.91%) NetIQ Identity Manager
2 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (11.82%) Google
2 12 (10.91%) Cisco
3 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.18%) Juniper
5 8 (7.27%) Avaya
5 8 (7.27%) Ericsson
5 8 (7.27%) IBM
5 8 (7.27%) Nokia
5 8 (7.27%) Ribbon
6 5 (4.55%) Apple
6 5 (4.55%) VMware
7 4 (3.64%) F5
7 4 (3.64%) Oracle
8 3 (2.73%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.73%) Qualys
8 3 (2.73%) Splunk
8 3 (2.73%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.82%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.82%) Foundry
9 2 (1.82%) Palantir