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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 49 59
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.53% 0.19% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.22% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £517 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £575 £750
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -23.33% +87.50%
75th Percentile £642 - £775
90th Percentile £677 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £625 £750
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +62.16%

All Process & 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 786 455 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.44% 87.16% 79.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 305 406
10th Percentile £313 £163 £235
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £592
90th Percentile £675 £689 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £481 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.80% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 42
10th Percentile £16.79 - £13.33
25th Percentile £20.97 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.05 £18.87 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +75.15% -30.75% +29.95%
75th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £47.94
90th Percentile - £28.78 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -8.16%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Birmingham

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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) OCI
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (60.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) SOAR
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Arista
1 3 (60.00%) Aruba
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Okta