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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 106 111
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +50
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 18 12 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 0.69% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.74% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 11
10th Percentile £463 £545 £240
25th Percentile £506 £550 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +6.19% +8.65%
75th Percentile £638 £751 £625
90th Percentile £694 £761 £700
Central London median daily rate £553 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -7.83% +6.19% -9.60%

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 2,072 1,620 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.66% 93.75% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,032 1,358
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -4.17%
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 30 16 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.25 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.44% +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 June 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Anypoint
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (27.78%) SaaS
5 4 (22.22%) AWS
5 4 (22.22%) OneDrive
6 3 (16.67%) GCP
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.56%) IaaS
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (5.56%) PaaS
8 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) WAN
3 4 (22.22%) DNS
3 4 (22.22%) LAN
3 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) DHCP
4 3 (16.67%) Network Security
4 3 (16.67%) Unified Communications
5 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
6 1 (5.56%) BGP
6 1 (5.56%) IPsec
6 1 (5.56%) MPLS
6 1 (5.56%) OSPF
6 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.56%) SSL
6 1 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Fiddler
1 2 (11.11%) MSI
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Security Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 2 (11.11%) JSON
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) FIDO
2 1 (5.56%) J2EE
2 1 (5.56%) JDBC
2 1 (5.56%) JWT
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) RAML
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
2 1 (5.56%) Swagger
2 1 (5.56%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
1 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (22.22%) User Experience
3 3 (16.67%) AI
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 3 (16.67%) SIEM
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Application Packaging
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Security Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) C++
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%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) VCAP
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) NCSC
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.56%) JSP 440
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
4 1 (5.56%) QRadar
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) F5
2 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) Zscaler
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.56%) Okta
4 1 (5.56%) Planon
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Workday