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 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 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £816 - -
25th Percentile £822 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £863 - -
75th Percentile £922 - -
90th Percentile £939 - -
North West median daily rate £575 £480 £850
% change year-on-year +19.79% -43.53% +50.71%

All Process & 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 212 143 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 80.92% 89.38% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 74 75
10th Percentile £160 £354 £283
25th Percentile £339 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +0.09% +2.38%
75th Percentile £682 £597 £650
90th Percentile £801 £630 £732
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 20 63
10th Percentile £35.15 £14.76 -
25th Percentile £41.94 £24.32 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% -28.57% -5.29%
75th Percentile £71.50 £44.92 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £48.43
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.53
% change year-on-year +40.63% +36.00% -36.92%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

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 17 March 2026. 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 - 3 £863 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2