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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 116 137
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +54
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 10 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 0.56% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.61% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 1
10th Percentile - £512 -
25th Percentile £463 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £660 £540
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +22.18% +0.47%
75th Percentile £541 £775 -
90th Percentile £550 £810 -
Central London median daily rate £488 £660 £540
% change year-on-year -26.11% +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 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (20.00%) BGP
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) OSPF
4 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (10.00%) SSL
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Security Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) CyberArk Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Transformation Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) CISM
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) GDPR
3 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (10.00%) NIST
4 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (10.00%) CASB
4 1 (10.00%) Icinga
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Progress
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk