Zero Trust Contracts in the City of London

Zero Trust
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 118 159
Rank change year-on-year +7 +41 +36
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 11 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.61% 0.56% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.61% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 4
10th Percentile £545 £264 -
25th Percentile £550 £533 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £583 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +9.91% +24.71%
75th Percentile £751 £663 £566
90th Percentile £761 £723 £613
Central London median daily rate £600 £583 £625
% change year-on-year +3.00% -6.80% +47.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (18.18%) IaaS
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Security Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Reinsurance
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (9.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Security
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Cost Management
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Big Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bicep
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
2 2 (18.18%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) Okta
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Ping Identity
3 1 (9.09%) Progress
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Zscaler