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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 104 118
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +48
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 19 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.81% 0.65% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.70% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 8
10th Percentile £463 £560 £240
25th Percentile £494 £584 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £558
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +12.15% +7.21%
75th Percentile £641 £751 £663
90th Percentile £694 £766 £708
Central London median daily rate £525 £625 £558
% change year-on-year -16.03% +12.15% -10.80%

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 1,982 1,571 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.85% 93.51% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 988 1,374
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.74% +2.88% -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 May 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 (5.26%) Anypoint
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
5 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.26%) OCI
7 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) Network Security
3 3 (15.79%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) DNS
4 2 (10.53%) WAN
5 1 (5.26%) BGP
5 1 (5.26%) IPsec
5 1 (5.26%) LAN
5 1 (5.26%) MPLS
5 1 (5.26%) OSPF
5 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.26%) SSL
5 1 (5.26%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.26%) VSAN
5 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Fiddler
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) MSI
1 1 (5.26%) Terragrunt
1 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Programme Director
4 1 (5.26%) Security Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) OAuth
1 2 (10.53%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.26%) J2EE
2 1 (5.26%) JDBC
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) RAML
2 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) Swagger
2 1 (5.26%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Cloud Security
2 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (26.32%) SIEM
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) AI
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.79%) Migration
5 3 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
5 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) Workflow
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
6 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
6 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) CISSP
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.53%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) VCAP
5 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.79%) NCSC
2 3 (15.79%) NIST
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.26%) JSP 440
4 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.26%) Icinga
4 1 (5.26%) Kibana
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.26%) PowerCLI
4 1 (5.26%) QRadar
4 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.26%) Okta
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Planon
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Workday
4 1 (5.26%) Zscaler