Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Zero Trust
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.42% - 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% - 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £750
75th Percentile - - £775
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £583 £500
% change year-on-year -1.37% +16.60% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 644 601 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.44% 87.10% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 404 406
10th Percentile £221 £197 £286
25th Percentile £370 £381 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.75 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +233.33%
75th Percentile £20.38 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Zero Trust relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) NGFW
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Coaching
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto