Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Zero Trust
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
South Wales median daily rate £550 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 183 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 84.34% 78.88% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 131 173
10th Percentile £213 £162 £176
25th Percentile £290 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £538
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
South Wales median daily rate £408 £419 £450
% change year-on-year -2.69% -6.94% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £13.08 £21.62 £17.60
25th Percentile £14.04 £23.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.44 £25.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.80% -1.54% +52.81%
75th Percentile £20.63 £27.50 £34.50
90th Percentile £23.74 £38.00 £47.00
South Wales median hourly rate £18.69 £25.18 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.79% -3.15% +30.59%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft