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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 132 146
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 17 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.70% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 5
10th Percentile £475 - £430
25th Percentile £506 £583 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £813 £775 £538
90th Percentile £900 - £571
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

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 2,118 2,298 2,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.63% 80.35% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 1,549 1,931
10th Percentile £212 £253 £256
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 143 91
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.12 £13.96 £19.75
Median hourly rate £20.50 £18.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -34.55% +41.03%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +63.46%

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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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +15 15 £588 -21.67% 5
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 2
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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:

Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Collibra
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) Network Security
2 4 (23.53%) SD-WAN
2 4 (23.53%) WAN
3 3 (17.65%) MQTT
4 2 (11.76%) 5G
4 2 (11.76%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (11.76%) Modbus
4 2 (11.76%) NGFW
4 2 (11.76%) VPN
5 1 (5.88%) DHCP
5 1 (5.88%) DNS
5 1 (5.88%) Internet
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (17.65%) Delta Lake
1 3 (17.65%) GIS
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Network Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Security Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Security Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) IoT Architect
5 1 (5.88%) IT Architect
5 1 (5.88%) IT Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Release Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Loki
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) IoT
1 6 (35.29%) SCADA
2 5 (29.41%) Operational Technology
3 3 (17.65%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) CentOS
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Rocky
1 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (23.53%) Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) High Availability
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (23.53%) Network Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
3 3 (17.65%) Network Design
3 3 (17.65%) Observability
3 3 (17.65%) RBAC
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bicep
1 3 (17.65%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (17.65%) NCSC
1 3 (17.65%) PMO
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 3 (17.65%) Informatica
2 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce