Zero Trust Contracts in London

Zero Trust
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 361 417
Rank change year-on-year +75 +56 +104
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 67 30 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 50
10th Percentile £437 £424 £450
25th Percentile £525 £511 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £634
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.27% -2.50%
75th Percentile £800 £702 £738
90th Percentile £875 £750 £751
England median daily rate £600 £680 £627
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.52% -3.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in London

Zero Trust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in London.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in London

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +9 12 £650 +18.18% 2
South London - 2 £488 - 1
East London - 1 £775 -
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (8.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (73.13%) Azure
2 32 (47.76%) GCP
3 30 (44.78%) AWS
4 16 (23.88%) Entra ID
5 13 (19.40%) IaaS
5 13 (19.40%) PaaS
6 12 (17.91%) SaaS
7 11 (16.42%) Serverless
8 8 (11.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (8.96%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (5.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (4.48%) Azure AKS
12 3 (4.48%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (4.48%) GitHub
13 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (31.34%) Firewall
2 17 (25.37%) VPN
3 9 (13.43%) Network Security
4 5 (7.46%) WAN
5 4 (5.97%) DHCP
5 4 (5.97%) DNS
5 4 (5.97%) MPLS
6 3 (4.48%) 4G
6 3 (4.48%) ISDN
6 3 (4.48%) LAN
6 3 (4.48%) PSTN
7 2 (2.99%) BGP
7 2 (2.99%) NGFW
7 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.99%) Wireless
8 1 (1.49%) HTTP
8 1 (1.49%) SAN
8 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.49%) VLAN
8 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.99%) Big Data
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) MSI
4 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (22.39%) Finance
2 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Marketing
4 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Local Government
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) Architect
2 13 (19.40%) Consultant
2 13 (19.40%) Security Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Security Architect
4 9 (13.43%) Security Consultant
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Architect
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (8.96%) Project Manager
7 5 (7.46%) GCP Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Lead
7 5 (7.46%) Network Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Technical Manager
7 5 (7.46%) Technical Project Manager
8 4 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Network Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Network Security Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Security Analyst
10 2 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.48%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (2.99%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.49%) FIDO
4 1 (1.49%) JWT
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.49%) OpenID
4 1 (1.49%) React
4 1 (1.49%) SAML
4 1 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.49%) Spring
4 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.49%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.48%) CMDB
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.48%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.48%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.49%) IoT
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) PKI
5 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Windows
2 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.48%) Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.37%) Cloud Security
1 17 (25.37%) Migration
2 15 (22.39%) DevOps
3 14 (20.90%) Agile
4 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.91%) Analytics
5 12 (17.91%) Risk Management
6 10 (14.93%) ETL
6 10 (14.93%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (14.93%) RBAC
7 9 (13.43%) Cost Management
7 9 (13.43%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (13.43%) FinOps
7 9 (13.43%) GAP Analysis
7 9 (13.43%) Information Security
7 9 (13.43%) Security Architecture
8 8 (11.94%) Cost Optimisation
8 8 (11.94%) Scrum
8 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) Bicep
2 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.96%) Python
4 3 (4.48%) Bash
4 3 (4.48%) SQL
5 1 (1.49%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Azure Certification
2 11 (16.42%) CISSP
3 8 (11.94%) Security Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.96%) CISM
6 5 (7.46%) CCNP
6 5 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.97%) Degree
8 3 (4.48%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.99%) CEH
9 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.49%) CCSA
10 1 (1.49%) CISA
10 1 (1.49%) CRISC
10 1 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (1.49%) JNCIP
10 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.39%) NIST
2 8 (11.94%) GDPR
2 8 (11.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.46%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.97%) GRC
5 3 (4.48%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.99%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.99%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (19.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.96%) Docker
3 5 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.99%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.49%) IAG
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Terraform
2 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.96%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.99%) Ansible
5 2 (2.99%) SCCM
6 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.49%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Google
3 6 (8.96%) Palo Alto
3 6 (8.96%) VMware
4 5 (7.46%) CheckPoint
4 5 (7.46%) Okta
4 5 (7.46%) Ping Identity
5 4 (5.97%) Cisco
6 3 (4.48%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.48%) Databricks
6 3 (4.48%) F5
6 3 (4.48%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.99%) Aruba
7 2 (2.99%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (2.99%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.99%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (2.99%) SAP
7 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.99%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.49%) Dell