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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 375 463
Rank change year-on-year +46 +88 +214
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Zero Trust 191 144 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.43% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 108 93
10th Percentile £431 £513 £375
25th Percentile £483 £609 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £688
90th Percentile £752 £850 £712
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £61.80 - £69.68
25th Percentile £68.25 £77.50 -
Median hourly rate £84.00 £85.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £97.25 £92.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £102.20 - £72.81
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £85.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +21.43% +66.87%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,017 28,476 39,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.79% 85.72% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,922 18,321 27,239
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £423 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £753 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,479 1,516 1,391
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £18.13 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.72 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

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

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in England

Zero Trust
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Zero Trust.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Zero Trust in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Zero Trust in England

Zero Trust
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +67 84 £550 -10.24% 68
North of England -36 30 £599 -29.53% 16
South East +26 25 £536 -17.54% 24
North West -29 22 £600 -29.41% 8
Midlands +1 15 £513 -12.09% 3
East of England - 14 £550 - 6
West Midlands +10 13 £525 -9.95% 3
South West +11 12 £600 -7.69% 11
Yorkshire -6 6 £585 +6.27% 6
East Midlands - 2 £500 -
North East - 2 - - 2
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 16 (8.38%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.66%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.52%) Mattermost
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 105 (54.97%) Azure
2 70 (36.65%) AWS
3 53 (27.75%) GCP
4 45 (23.56%) Entra ID
5 38 (19.90%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (12.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (10.99%) GitHub
8 18 (9.42%) SaaS
9 16 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (8.38%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (6.81%) Serverless
11 12 (6.28%) IaaS
11 12 (6.28%) PaaS
12 11 (5.76%) OneDrive
13 10 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (3.14%) Cloudflare
16 5 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (2.09%) AWS Direct Connect
17 4 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 61 (31.94%) Firewall
2 31 (16.23%) VPN
3 29 (15.18%) Network Security
4 18 (9.42%) WAN
5 12 (6.28%) SD-WAN
6 10 (5.24%) DNS
7 9 (4.71%) NGFW
8 8 (4.19%) MPLS
9 7 (3.66%) DHCP
9 7 (3.66%) LAN
10 6 (3.14%) VSAN
11 5 (2.62%) Internet
11 5 (2.62%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (2.62%) TCP/IP
12 4 (2.09%) 4G
12 4 (2.09%) IPsec
12 4 (2.09%) ISDN
12 4 (2.09%) PSTN
12 4 (2.09%) VLAN
13 3 (1.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.14%) Data Lake
1 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
1 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (1.57%) Delta Lake
2 3 (1.57%) GIS
2 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.57%) Power BI
3 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.05%) Big Data
3 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.05%) Redis
4 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.52%) MySQL
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.85%) GitLab
2 15 (7.85%) JIRA
3 4 (2.09%) CircleCI
3 4 (2.09%) Git
4 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.52%) MLflow
6 1 (0.52%) MSI
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.71%) Finance
3 16 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.76%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.71%) Marketing
6 5 (2.62%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.57%) Retail
9 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.05%) Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Back Office
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (36.13%) Architect
2 29 (15.18%) Security Architect
3 21 (10.99%) Security Engineer
4 18 (9.42%) Consultant
5 16 (8.38%) Senior
6 15 (7.85%) Analyst
7 14 (7.33%) Lead
8 13 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.81%) Network Architect
9 11 (5.76%) Security Analyst
10 10 (5.24%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.19%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Security Consultant
12 7 (3.66%) Azure Architect
13 6 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Design Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.62%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.28%) OAuth
2 8 (4.19%) LDAP
2 8 (4.19%) SAML
3 7 (3.66%) SailPoint
4 6 (3.14%) Kafka
4 6 (3.14%) OpenID
5 5 (2.62%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.09%) Node.js
6 4 (2.09%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.09%) RESTful
7 3 (1.57%) React
7 3 (1.57%) REST
8 2 (1.05%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.05%) Loki
8 2 (1.05%) Middleware
8 2 (1.05%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.05%) Playwright
8 2 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (12.04%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.38%) Operational Technology
4 14 (7.33%) Security Posture
5 13 (6.81%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.71%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.71%) SCADA
7 8 (4.19%) IoT
8 6 (3.14%) PKI
9 5 (2.62%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.62%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 5 (2.62%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.05%) CMDB
11 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.28%) Windows
2 13 (6.81%) Linux
3 12 (6.28%) Mac OS
4 8 (4.19%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.14%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.57%) Android
6 3 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.52%) CentOS
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.52%) Rocky
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.52%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (26.70%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (23.56%) Cloud Security
3 43 (22.51%) DevOps
4 41 (21.47%) Identity Access Management
5 38 (19.90%) CI/CD
5 38 (19.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (16.75%) Agile
6 32 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (14.66%) Roadmaps
8 27 (14.14%) Analytics
8 27 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (13.61%) DevSecOps
9 26 (13.61%) Security Architecture
10 25 (13.09%) Incident Response
10 25 (13.09%) RBAC
10 25 (13.09%) SIEM
11 24 (12.57%) Data Loss Prevention
12 23 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (10.47%) Network Architecture
14 18 (9.42%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.47%) PowerShell
2 40 (20.94%) Python
3 22 (11.52%) Bash
4 12 (6.28%) Bicep
5 9 (4.71%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (4.19%) SQL
7 7 (3.66%) Java
8 4 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.52%) C#
10 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 52 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.61%) CISSP
4 21 (10.99%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (9.42%) Azure Certification
5 18 (9.42%) Degree
6 14 (7.33%) DV Cleared
7 13 (6.81%) CISM
7 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (5.76%) AWS Certification
9 10 (5.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (4.19%) CCNP
11 6 (3.14%) CCSP
12 4 (2.09%) CCIE
12 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (1.57%) Citrix Certification
13 3 (1.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (26.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (23.04%) NIST
3 33 (17.28%) GDPR
4 12 (6.28%) NCSC
5 11 (5.76%) HIPAA
6 9 (4.71%) PCI DSS
7 6 (3.14%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (2.09%) PSD2
10 3 (1.57%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.57%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (1.57%) GRC
10 3 (1.57%) RMADS
11 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (1.05%) NIST 800
11 2 (1.05%) SOC 1
12 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 44 (23.04%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.52%) Docker
3 21 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.24%) VMware NSX
5 6 (3.14%) vSphere
6 4 (2.09%) Firmware
7 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.05%) Snort
7 2 (1.05%) Squid
8 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (18.32%) Terraform
2 30 (15.71%) Kubernetes
3 27 (14.14%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (9.95%) Ansible
4 19 (9.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.71%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.19%) Grafana
7 7 (3.66%) SCCM
8 6 (3.14%) PowerCLI
8 6 (3.14%) VxRail
9 5 (2.62%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (2.09%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.57%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.57%) Puppet
12 2 (1.05%) Argo
12 2 (1.05%) Avamar
12 2 (1.05%) Kubeflow
12 2 (1.05%) Nessus
12 2 (1.05%) Nexpose
12 2 (1.05%) Suricata
Vendors
1 70 (36.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (15.18%) VMware
3 23 (12.04%) Palo Alto
4 21 (10.99%) Cisco
5 20 (10.47%) Zscaler
6 17 (8.90%) Okta
7 13 (6.81%) F5
8 12 (6.28%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (6.28%) Google
9 10 (5.24%) Citrix
10 8 (4.19%) CyberArk
10 8 (4.19%) Dell
11 7 (3.66%) Qualys
11 7 (3.66%) Splunk
12 6 (3.14%) Databricks
12 6 (3.14%) Fortinet
12 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.62%) CheckPoint
14 4 (2.09%) Salesforce
14 4 (2.09%) SAP