Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Zero Trust
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 16 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 5.10% 1.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% 1.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £528 £448 -
25th Percentile £536 £449 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 £454 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.98% - -
75th Percentile £691 £461 -
90th Percentile £710 £463 -
Cheshire median daily rate £662 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +43.91% -8.00% -11.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 302 115 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.18% 96.64% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 103 104
10th Percentile £331 £317 £366
25th Percentile £380 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £381 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -23.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £580 £499 £582
90th Percentile £653 £600 £624
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £21.84
% change year-on-year -30.65% +50.87% -4.13%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Knutsford over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Knutsford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
3 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Akamai
4 2 (12.50%) Apigee
4 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) Kong
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) Network Security
2 3 (18.75%) SD-WAN
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 3 (18.75%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
3 2 (12.50%) HTTP
3 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) SSL
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) OAuth
2 3 (18.75%) OAuth2
2 3 (18.75%) OpenID
3 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 2 (12.50%) JWT
3 2 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
4 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Security Architecture
2 8 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Cyber Resilience
3 6 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 4 (25.00%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
5 4 (25.00%) OWASP
5 4 (25.00%) SIEM
6 3 (18.75%) API Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
6 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (18.75%) Operational Stability
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (18.75%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bicep
1 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) CISSP
1 2 (12.50%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (18.75%) NCSC
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Okta
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.25%) Symantec
2 1 (6.25%) Zscaler