Zero Trust Contracts in Berkshire

Zero Trust
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Zero Trust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zero Trust over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +34 - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% 0.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 £756 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £763 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% - -
75th Percentile £525 £769 -
90th Percentile £540 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £628 £698
% change year-on-year -4.38% -10.10% +5.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Zero Trust falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 3 £500 -
Reading +30 1 - - 12
Bracknell - 1 - -
Zero Trust
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (40.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) BGP
5 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (20.00%) NGFW
5 1 (20.00%) SSL
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CEH
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) CCSK
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CASB
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler