Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Zero Trust
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 9 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.87% 3.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 4.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £534 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £625 £534 -
% change year-on-year +17.04% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 399 195 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 82.95% 85.53% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 139 87
10th Percentile £328 £225 £344
25th Percentile £400 £358 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -11.50%
75th Percentile £553 £573 £600
90th Percentile £625 £638 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 3 18
10th Percentile £17.00 £21.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £52.19 £30.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile - £51.35 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +293.94% -5.71% -

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Zero Trust relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Newcastle upon Tyne

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) OCI
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) BGP
2 6 (66.67%) BIG-IP
2 6 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (66.67%) OSPF
2 6 (66.67%) VXLAN
3 5 (55.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (55.56%) SD-WAN
4 4 (44.44%) WAN
5 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (33.33%) WLAN
6 2 (22.22%) Network Security
7 1 (11.11%) NGFW
7 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Data Centre
2 5 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (55.56%) Load Balancing
5 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) High Availability
6 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
7 2 (22.22%) DevOps
7 2 (22.22%) Network Design
7 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
8 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
8 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
8 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
8 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
8 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
8 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Icinga
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Palo Alto
2 6 (66.67%) F5
3 5 (55.56%) Arista
4 4 (44.44%) Aruba
5 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint