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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 108 125
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +57
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 18 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 0.61% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.67% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 5
10th Percentile - £593 -
25th Percentile £463 £680 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £751 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.68% +36.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £538 £781 -
90th Percentile £677 £830 £610
Central London median daily rate £513 £751 £550
% change year-on-year -31.68% +36.45% +5.77%

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 1,748 1,654 2,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.00% 91.69% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 1,015 1,504
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.40% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £31.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +54.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £48.75 £41.84
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 24 February 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (27.78%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (11.11%) OCI
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
1 6 (33.33%) Network Security
2 4 (22.22%) VPN
3 3 (16.67%) BGP
3 3 (16.67%) DNS
4 2 (11.11%) MPLS
4 2 (11.11%) OSPF
4 2 (11.11%) SSL
4 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.56%) Internet
5 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (5.56%) IPsec
5 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.56%) WAN
5 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
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 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Architect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Programme Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Network Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.56%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Cloud Security
2 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (33.33%) SIEM
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Security Architecture
4 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (22.22%) Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 2 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (11.11%) RBAC
7 2 (11.11%) Red Team
7 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISSP
2 3 (16.67%) CISM
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (22.22%) GDPR
3 3 (16.67%) NIST
4 2 (11.11%) NIST 800
4 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (5.56%) NCSC
5 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) CASB
3 1 (5.56%) Icinga
3 1 (5.56%) Kibana
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) QRadar
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) Okta
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler