Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Zero Trust
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.31% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £461 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £534 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% - -
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile £574 - -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £517 -
% change year-on-year -0.82% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 574 575 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.90% 95.04% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 323 431
10th Percentile £228 £200 £219
25th Percentile £403 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £483
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -4.24% +1.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £665 £636 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £456 £480
% change year-on-year -1.21% -5.10% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 30
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.93 £14.91
25th Percentile £28.38 £21.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £24.44
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% -1.41% +14.93%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.30 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £28.97 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +10.05%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) VMware