Zero Trust Contracts in the Midlands

Zero Trust
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 98 128 165
Rank change year-on-year +30 +37 -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 13 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.18% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.22% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 2
10th Percentile £558 - £519
25th Percentile £575 £500 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £556
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +34.83% -
75th Percentile £813 £775 £580
90th Percentile £900 - £588
England median daily rate £600 £680 £627
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.52% -3.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +21 12 £625 -16.67% 12
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) 5G
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (15.38%) Modbus
1 2 (15.38%) MQTT
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
1 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Internet
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
2 4 (30.77%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Security Posture
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (23.08%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 3 (23.08%) IoT
3 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 3 (23.08%) Operational Technology
3 3 (23.08%) SCADA
4 2 (15.38%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) CentOS
2 1 (7.69%) Rocky
2 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (30.77%) RBAC
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (23.08%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Edge Computing
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Data Acquisition
5 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (7.69%) Predictive Maintenance
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NCSC
1 3 (23.08%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) CyberArk
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
1 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco