Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Zero Trust
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £805 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £810 - -
75th Percentile £815 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £810 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 101 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.36% 92.66% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 75 107
10th Percentile £459 £380 £231
25th Percentile £500 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -5.91%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £603
90th Percentile £634 £629 £673
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Croydon

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

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 Croydon region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
South Croydon - 1 £810 -
Zero Trust
South London

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform