Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Zero Trust
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.48% - 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
North West median daily rate £556 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -23.38% +31.82% -2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 116 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 83.81% 80.56% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 53 119
10th Percentile £165 £262 £375
25th Percentile £363 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £623
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -19.68% +18.57%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £717
90th Percentile £670 £618 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 52
10th Percentile £39.53 £24.65 £20.58
25th Percentile £43.70 £29.36 £45.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.45%
75th Percentile £69.25 £52.23 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.93 £61.37
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Preston - 1 £335 - 2
Zero Trust
North West

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds