Zero Trust Contracts in Central London

Zero Trust
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 117 126 161
Rank change year-on-year +9 +35 +30
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 12 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.60% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.32% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 5
10th Percentile £565 £240 -
25th Percentile £588 £395 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +12.11%
75th Percentile £751 £611 £638
90th Percentile £820 £670 £641
London median daily rate £650 £575 £634
% change year-on-year +13.04% -9.27% -2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London 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
City of London +13 12 £650 +18.18% 2
Zero Trust
London

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP GRC
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) BGP
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (25.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (16.67%) CMDB
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) ITSM
5 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Security Management
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bicep
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNP
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) CISM
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) JNCIP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (8.33%) GRC
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) IAG
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) Okta
3 1 (8.33%) Ping Identity
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) VMware