Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Zero Trust
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £718 - -
Central London median daily rate £553 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -7.83% +3.00% -6.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 37 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 88.06% 86.05% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 29 31
10th Percentile £322 £374 £440
25th Percentile £500 £409 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £52.93 - -
25th Percentile £55.06 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Zero Trust relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the City of Westminster

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zero Trust within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Paddington - 3 £525 - 1
Zero Trust
Central London

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DKIM
1 1 (33.33%) DMARC
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Zscaler
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike