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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 115 109
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +55
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 18 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.77% 0.38% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.40% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 9
10th Percentile £463 £538 £504
25th Percentile £511 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £673 £659 £700
90th Percentile £781 £738 £735
Central London median daily rate £619 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +7.61% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £92.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £85.00

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 2,052 1,730 1,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.77% 94.23% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,136 1,255
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% +5.73% -3.18%
75th Percentile £35.14 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -14.38% +7.49% -23.49%

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 August 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 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) SaaS
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 4 (22.22%) OneDrive
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (5.56%) OCI
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
1 6 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (22.22%) LAN
2 4 (22.22%) Network Security
3 3 (16.67%) DHCP
3 3 (16.67%) DNS
3 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (16.67%) Unified Communications
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
4 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
5 1 (5.56%) BGP
5 1 (5.56%) BIG-IP
5 1 (5.56%) Internet
5 1 (5.56%) Multicast
5 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Fiddler
1 2 (11.11%) MSI
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Banking
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) FIDO
3 1 (5.56%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (5.56%) JDBC
3 1 (5.56%) JWT
3 1 (5.56%) LDAP
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 1 (5.56%) RAML
3 1 (5.56%) REST
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 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (27.78%) Migration
1 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (22.22%) User Experience
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 3 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.11%) Application Packaging
4 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) SIEM
4 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bicep
3 2 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CISM
5 1 (5.56%) CISSP
5 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) VCAP
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.56%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) F5
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco
3 3 (16.67%) SAP
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.11%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.56%) Bloomberg
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.56%) OneLogin
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Planon
5 1 (5.56%) Reuters
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Workday