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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 112 134
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +57
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 13 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.72% 0.58% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.63% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 1
10th Percentile - £512 -
25th Percentile £463 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £660 £540
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% +22.18% +0.47%
75th Percentile £544 £775 -
90th Percentile £550 £810 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £660 £540
% change year-on-year -20.42% +22.18% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process and 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 1,644 1,908 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.88% 91.95% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,163 1,636
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £689
90th Percentile £758 £788 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -38.92%

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 16 December 2025.

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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (15.38%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) Network Security
3 2 (15.38%) BGP
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) Internet
4 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.69%) MPLS
4 1 (7.69%) OSPF
4 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.69%) SSL
4 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
4 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) CyberArk Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Programme Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Transformation Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (15.38%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) SIEM
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (15.38%) RBAC
5 2 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (7.69%) Generative AI
6 1 (7.69%) Information Security
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) CESG Certified Professional
1 2 (15.38%) CISM
1 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (30.77%) GDPR
3 2 (15.38%) NIST
3 2 (15.38%) NIST 800
3 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) CASB
4 1 (7.69%) Icinga
4 1 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) CyberArk
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
2 2 (15.38%) Zscaler
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Progress
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk