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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 104 120
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +51
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 17 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.80% 0.63% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.68% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 7
10th Percentile £463 £584 £240
25th Percentile £466 £597 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £701 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +27.36% -4.97%
75th Percentile £549 £763 £611
90th Percentile £677 £830 £670
Central London median daily rate £525 £701 £550
% change year-on-year -25.05% +27.36% -12.00%

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 1,864 1,608 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.92% 92.36% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,286 1,030 1,491
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £447 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £46.29 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.13 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 26 March 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 1 (5.88%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.76%) OCI
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Network Security
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
4 2 (11.76%) BGP
4 2 (11.76%) DNS
4 2 (11.76%) MPLS
5 1 (5.88%) Internet
5 1 (5.88%) IPsec
5 1 (5.88%) OSPF
5 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.88%) SSL
5 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.88%) VSAN
5 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Security Architect
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Network Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Programme Director
5 1 (5.88%) Security Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.76%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) JWT
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.88%) RAML
2 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Swagger
2 1 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.88%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Cloud Security
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
4 4 (23.53%) SIEM
5 3 (17.65%) Security Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
5 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) AI
6 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (11.76%) Observability
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.76%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (11.76%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) CCNP
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CISM
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) VCAP
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (17.65%) NIST
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) NIST 800
3 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.88%) NCSC
4 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) CASB
3 1 (5.88%) Icinga
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.88%) QRadar
3 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.76%) CyberArk
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) Okta
4 1 (5.88%) Planon
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) VMware