Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Central London

Zero Trust
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 118 157
Rank change year-on-year 0 +39 +47
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 8 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.48% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.52% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile £535 £504 £525
25th Percentile - £513 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £638
90th Percentile £750 £740 £641
London median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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 1,811 2,116 2,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.83% 92.12% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,376 2,067
10th Percentile £316 £375 £358
25th Percentile £413 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £788 £816
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 16
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.28 £16.02
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +30.84% -37.06%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £60.88
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.92
% change year-on-year -9.29% -12.31% +7.88%

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

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Central London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Central London

Zero Trust
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 15 September 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 +8 7 £550 -8.33% 6
West End of London - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Mattermost
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) STUN
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) Loki
2 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) WebRTC
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (25.00%) Argo
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Okta
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Ping Identity
2 1 (12.50%) Progress
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) VMware