Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Zero Trust
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 111 134
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +57
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 12 11 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.66% 0.53% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.58% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 1
10th Percentile - £512 -
25th Percentile £463 £578 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £735 £540
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% +36.02% +0.47%
75th Percentile £538 £781 -
90th Percentile £561 £830 -
Central London median daily rate £500 £735 £540
% change year-on-year -31.93% +36.02% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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 1,651 1,902 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.57% 92.06% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,162 1,616
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in the City of London

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the City of London

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (16.67%) OCI
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) BGP
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) Internet
4 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (8.33%) MPLS
4 1 (8.33%) OSPF
4 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (8.33%) SSL
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Transformation Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Security Architecture
2 5 (41.67%) SIEM
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (16.67%) RBAC
5 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) CESG Certified Professional
1 2 (16.67%) CISM
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (33.33%) GDPR
3 3 (25.00%) NIST
4 2 (16.67%) NIST 800
4 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) CASB
3 1 (8.33%) Icinga
3 1 (8.33%) Kibana
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler