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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 117 147
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 +49
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 7 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.53% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.58% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £535 £504 £516
25th Percentile - £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +0.47%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £592
90th Percentile £750 £740 £623
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +16.28%
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 1,649 1,913 2,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 92.10% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,220 1,918
10th Percentile £325 £384 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £712
90th Percentile £763 £788 £815
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £15.43
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -1.82% -36.05%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -10.71% +30.84% -37.06%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust 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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the City of London

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Ping Identity
2 1 (14.29%) Progress
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) VMware