Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Zero Trust
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 84 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 9 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.87% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £436 £708 -
25th Percentile £447 £719 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £769 -
90th Percentile £586 £773 -
South East median daily rate £528 £583 £638
% change year-on-year -9.43% -8.55% +2.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 896 940 1,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.32% 80.00% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 621 676
10th Percentile £325 £360 £300
25th Percentile £450 £460 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £533
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +7.04% +1.43%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £637
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -2.01% -2.81% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 65 98
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £26.33 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £77.25 £71.11
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.30
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.47% +47.66%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Hampshire over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Hampshire

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Fleet - 5 £447 -
Farnborough +7 4 £500 -33.33% 4
Zero Trust
South East

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Project Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) LDAP
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
1 3 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) ModSecurity
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Mac OS
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Business Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
3 4 (44.44%) IT Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Application Packaging
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 2 (22.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (11.11%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CISM
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) GDPR
1 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) NCSC
3 1 (11.11%) JSP 440
3 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) CyberArk