Zero Trust Contracts in Manchester

Zero Trust
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 75 52 105
Rank change year-on-year -23 +53 +36
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 4 44 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 2.90% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 3.33% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 32 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £775 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £850 £563
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +51.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - £665
North West median daily rate £480 £850 £564
% change year-on-year -43.53% +50.71% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
North West median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in Manchester

Zero Trust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in Manchester

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Stockport - 1 £500 - 2
Zero Trust
North West

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Apigee
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (50.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) Puppeteer
3 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) API Development
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) PagerDuty