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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 110 130
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 +48
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 15 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.82% 0.48% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.53% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 0
10th Percentile - £555 -
25th Percentile £463 £627 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £735 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.86% - -
75th Percentile £538 £794 -
90th Percentile £653 £850 -
Central London median daily rate £501 £735 -
% change year-on-year -31.86% - -

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 1,641 1,710 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.18% 91.98% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,038 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £792 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £574
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.22% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -25.00%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
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 20 January 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 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (13.33%) AWS KMS
6 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (13.33%) OCI
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Network Security
2 4 (26.67%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) BGP
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) Internet
4 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (6.67%) MPLS
4 1 (6.67%) OSPF
4 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) SSL
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Security Architect
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (13.33%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Network Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Director
5 1 (6.67%) Transformation Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) SIEM
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (13.33%) RBAC
5 2 (13.33%) Red Team
5 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (13.33%) CESG Certified Professional
1 2 (13.33%) CISM
1 2 (13.33%) CISSP
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (26.67%) GDPR
3 3 (20.00%) NIST
4 2 (13.33%) NIST 800
4 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) CASB
3 1 (6.67%) Icinga
3 1 (6.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) CyberArk
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Zscaler