Zero Trust Contracts in the North of England

Zero Trust
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 146 139 201
Rank change year-on-year -7 +62 +24
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 20 46 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.96% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.12% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 34 9
10th Percentile £444 - £550
25th Percentile £455 £775 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £850 £564
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +50.71% -4.41%
75th Percentile £600 - £638
90th Percentile £628 - £685
England median daily rate £600 £680 £627
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.52% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the North of England

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -19 9 £480 -43.53% 9
North East - 8 £534 -
Yorkshire +10 3 £600 +14.29% 5
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Apigee
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) 4G
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) ISDN
2 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) MPLS
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) PSTN
2 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) IT Security Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) OAuth
2 3 (15.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) LDAP
3 2 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (10.00%) Swagger
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) OpenID
4 1 (5.00%) Playwright
4 1 (5.00%) Puppeteer
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) SCADA
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Data Protection
2 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 5 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (25.00%) Information Security
4 5 (25.00%) Information Security Management
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) ISMS
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (25.00%) Security Management
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) API Development
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISM
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Cisco
3 5 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (25.00%) HP
3 5 (25.00%) Veeam
3 5 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Centrify
5 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) PagerDuty
5 1 (5.00%) Thycotic