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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 110 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +47
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 18 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.80% 0.62% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.67% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 7
10th Percentile £463 £584 £240
25th Percentile £472 £597 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £701 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +27.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £574 £763 £611
90th Percentile £670 £830 £670
Central London median daily rate £525 £701 £550
% change year-on-year -25.05% +27.36% -12.00%

All Process & 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 1,924 1,644 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.66% 92.83% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,049 1,427
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% +3.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 13
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -20.54%

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 23 April 2026.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.11%) OCI
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Network Security
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (5.56%) BGP
4 1 (5.56%) IPsec
4 1 (5.56%) MPLS
4 1 (5.56%) OSPF
4 1 (5.56%) SSL
4 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Director
5 1 (5.56%) Security Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) J2EE
3 1 (5.56%) JDBC
3 1 (5.56%) JWT
3 1 (5.56%) LDAP
3 1 (5.56%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 1 (5.56%) RAML
3 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
3 1 (5.56%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) Swagger
3 1 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (5.56%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 4 (22.22%) SIEM
6 3 (16.67%) AI
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) RBAC
6 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
6 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Workflow
7 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 2 (11.11%) Observability
7 2 (11.11%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) CISSP
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (11.11%) CISM
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) VCAP
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) NIST
3 2 (11.11%) NCSC
3 2 (11.11%) NIST 800
3 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) Icinga
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
4 1 (5.56%) QRadar
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) Okta
3 1 (5.56%) Planon
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Workday