Zero Trust Contracts in England

Zero Trust
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Zero Trust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zero Trust over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 390 490
Rank change year-on-year +38 +100 +187
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 133 152 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.41% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.47% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 102 95
10th Percentile £452 £507 £463
25th Percentile £518 £625 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £680 £627
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +8.52% -3.60%
75th Percentile £725 £825 £713
90th Percentile £865 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £685 £628
% change year-on-year -12.41% +9.03% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £70.18
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in England.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in England.

Hourly rate trend for Zero Trust in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +75 67 £650 +13.04% 78
North of England -7 20 £500 -41.18% 46
Midlands +30 13 £625 -16.67% 49
West Midlands +21 12 £625 -16.67% 28
South East +42 10 £600 -4.38% 61
East of England - 10 £530 - 26
South West +7 9 £575 -11.54% 25
North West -19 9 £480 -43.53% 23
North East - 8 £534 - 4
Yorkshire +10 3 £600 +14.29% 19
East Midlands - 1 - - 19
Zero Trust
UK

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (4.51%) Confluence
1 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (60.15%) Azure
2 50 (37.59%) AWS
3 39 (29.32%) GCP
4 25 (18.80%) Entra ID
5 16 (12.03%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (10.53%) IaaS
6 14 (10.53%) PaaS
7 13 (9.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (9.77%) SaaS
8 12 (9.02%) Serverless
9 11 (8.27%) Cloudflare
10 8 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.26%) GitHub
11 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (3.76%) OneDrive
14 4 (3.01%) Azure AKS
14 4 (3.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 42 (31.58%) Firewall
2 33 (24.81%) VPN
3 23 (17.29%) Network Security
4 17 (12.78%) WAN
5 14 (10.53%) DNS
6 11 (8.27%) MPLS
7 7 (5.26%) DHCP
7 7 (5.26%) LAN
7 7 (5.26%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.76%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.76%) VSAN
8 5 (3.76%) Wireless
9 4 (3.01%) 4G
9 4 (3.01%) ISDN
9 4 (3.01%) PSTN
10 3 (2.26%) BGP
10 3 (2.26%) NGFW
11 2 (1.50%) 5G
11 2 (1.50%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (1.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (3.01%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.01%) Power BI
3 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.50%) Big Data
4 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 7 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.76%) GitLab
4 3 (2.26%) CircleCI
4 3 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) MSI
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.05%) Finance
3 21 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Marketing
5 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.50%) Banking
9 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (32.33%) Architect
2 23 (17.29%) Security Engineer
3 19 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 15 (11.28%) Lead
4 15 (11.28%) Network Engineer
5 14 (10.53%) Consultant
6 12 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) Security Consultant
9 9 (6.77%) Senior
10 8 (6.02%) Azure Architect
10 8 (6.02%) Network Architect
11 7 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) IT Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Network Security Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Project Manager
13 5 (3.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Technical Manager
13 5 (3.76%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) ARM Templates
2 7 (5.26%) LDAP
3 6 (4.51%) OAuth
4 4 (3.01%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (3.01%) OpenID
4 4 (3.01%) SAML
5 3 (2.26%) Kafka
5 3 (2.26%) RESTful
6 2 (1.50%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.50%) React
6 2 (1.50%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.50%) Swagger
7 1 (0.75%) FIDO
7 1 (0.75%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.75%) JWT
7 1 (0.75%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.75%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (9.77%) Security Posture
3 10 (7.52%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.77%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.02%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.26%) Operational Technology
7 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (3.01%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (3.01%) IoT
9 4 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.01%) Reinsurance
9 4 (3.01%) SCADA
10 3 (2.26%) CMDB
10 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (2.26%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 3 (2.26%) PKI
11 2 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.53%) Linux
1 14 (10.53%) Windows
2 6 (4.51%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.75%) CentOS
4 1 (0.75%) Rocky
4 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (24.06%) Cloud Security
3 24 (18.05%) Agile
4 23 (17.29%) Migration
5 22 (16.54%) Identity Access Management
6 21 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (14.29%) DevOps
8 17 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (12.03%) Analytics
9 16 (12.03%) Data Protection
9 16 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (12.03%) Risk Management
9 16 (12.03%) Roadmaps
10 15 (11.28%) CI/CD
10 15 (11.28%) Project Delivery
10 15 (11.28%) RBAC
10 15 (11.28%) Security Architecture
11 14 (10.53%) Information Security
11 14 (10.53%) Network Architecture
12 12 (9.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.54%) PowerShell
2 21 (15.79%) Python
3 13 (9.77%) Bicep
4 11 (8.27%) SQL
5 4 (3.01%) Bash
5 4 (3.01%) Java
6 3 (2.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.78%) CISSP
2 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.03%) Azure Certification
4 14 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (9.02%) DV Cleared
6 11 (8.27%) Degree
7 9 (6.77%) CISM
8 8 (6.02%) CCNP
9 7 (5.26%) CCIE
10 5 (3.76%) CEH
10 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (3.01%) AWS Certification
12 3 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (2.26%) VCAP
12 3 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.50%) CCSA
13 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 1 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.55%) NIST
2 20 (15.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (8.27%) GDPR
4 6 (4.51%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.01%) GRC
5 4 (3.01%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.26%) NCSC
6 3 (2.26%) PMO
7 2 (1.50%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.75%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (19.55%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.77%) Docker
4 8 (6.02%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.01%) vSphere
6 2 (1.50%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.75%) Firmware
7 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.75%) IAG
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (18.05%) Terraform
2 16 (12.03%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.28%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (9.77%) Ansible
5 6 (4.51%) VxRail
6 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.01%) PowerCLI
6 4 (3.01%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.50%) Avamar
7 2 (1.50%) CASB
7 2 (1.50%) SCCM
8 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.75%) Grafana
8 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.29%) Cisco
2 19 (14.29%) VMware
3 14 (10.53%) Fortinet
4 13 (9.77%) CheckPoint
5 11 (8.27%) F5
5 11 (8.27%) Google
5 11 (8.27%) Zscaler
6 9 (6.77%) CyberArk
6 9 (6.77%) Palo Alto
7 7 (5.26%) Dell
7 7 (5.26%) ServiceNow
8 6 (4.51%) Citrix
8 6 (4.51%) Okta
9 5 (3.76%) Aruba
9 5 (3.76%) HP
9 5 (3.76%) Ping Identity
9 5 (3.76%) Veeam
10 4 (3.01%) Infoblox
10 4 (3.01%) Oracle