Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Zero Trust
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.77% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £525
75th Percentile £500 - £538
90th Percentile £587 - -
England median daily rate £550 £725 £625
% change year-on-year -24.14% +16.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 665 648 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.59% 82.55% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 410 545
10th Percentile £224 £267 £213
25th Percentile £340 £362 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -8.08% +6.45%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £628 £625 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £17.46
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -38.57% +54.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.76% +48.85%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the East Midlands

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the East Midlands

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 4 £483 - 6
Nottinghamshire - 1 £500 -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (16.67%) MQTT
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Loki
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Mac OS
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 3 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 3 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (66.67%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler