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 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 153 132 182
Rank change year-on-year -21 +50 +63
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 26 47 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.68% 1.03% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.23% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 11
10th Percentile £450 £760 -
25th Percentile £488 £775 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £850 £563
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +51.11% -5.46%
75th Percentile £600 - £578
90th Percentile £687 - £684
England median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £84.00 £85.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +21.43% +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 3,406 3,817 4,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.65% 83.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 2,307 3,253
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 323 198
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.19 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.47 £13.00 £17.73
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.00 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -18.06% +33.38%
75th Percentile £44.78 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.61 £53.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +63.46%

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

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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 20 July 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 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
North West -24 16 £500 -41.18% 14
Yorkshire +9 7 £599 +8.91% 6
North East - 3 £534 - 2
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England

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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 (19.23%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (19.23%) OneDrive
4 4 (15.38%) Apigee
4 4 (15.38%) AWS
4 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) Network Security
2 3 (11.54%) VPN
3 2 (7.69%) SSL
3 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.69%) VSAN
4 1 (3.85%) 4G
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) Internet
4 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.85%) ISDN
4 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) MPLS
4 1 (3.85%) PSTN
4 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) GitLab
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) CircleCI
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Security Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Programme Director
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) OAuth
2 4 (15.38%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
3 2 (7.69%) Playwright
3 2 (7.69%) Puppeteer
3 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.69%) React
3 2 (7.69%) Swagger
4 1 (3.85%) LDAP
4 1 (3.85%) OpenID
4 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 5 (19.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 8 (30.77%) Data Protection
2 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (26.92%) Incident Response
3 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (26.92%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 5 (19.23%) Data Governance
5 5 (19.23%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
5 5 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (19.23%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (19.23%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) Microservices
6 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
2 4 (15.38%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (11.54%) Degree
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) CCNP
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (26.92%) NIST
3 5 (19.23%) GDPR
4 2 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.85%) GxP
5 1 (3.85%) NCSC
5 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 2 (7.69%) vSphere
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Grafana
2 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 4 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.69%) Kustomize
3 2 (7.69%) PowerCLI
3 2 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) VMware
3 4 (15.38%) Google
4 3 (11.54%) Cisco
5 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.69%) HP
5 2 (7.69%) PagerDuty
5 2 (7.69%) Splunk
5 2 (7.69%) Veeam
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) Zscaler