Zero Trust Contracts in the North West

Zero Trust
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Zero Trust skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Zero Trust over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 144 180
Rank change year-on-year +52 +36 -43
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 45 16 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.63% 0.50% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 0.55% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 7 2
10th Percentile - £550 £488
25th Percentile £775 £553 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year +50.71% +2.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £603 £581
90th Percentile - £656 £593
England median daily rate £675 £627 £650
% change year-on-year +7.73% -3.60% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £59.25
% change year-on-year - +18.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Zero Trust is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Manchester +46 44 £850 +51.11%
Cheshire +4 1 £500 -11.35%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.22%) GCP
3 1 (2.22%) IaaS
3 1 (2.22%) PaaS
3 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (91.11%) Firewall
1 41 (91.11%) VPN
2 1 (2.22%) DMZ
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (13.33%) Legal
1 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Banking
3 1 (2.22%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (95.56%) Architect
2 38 (84.44%) Technical Architect
3 28 (62.22%) Lead
3 28 (62.22%) Lead Architect
3 28 (62.22%) Technical Leader
4 7 (15.56%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Digital Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Digital Technical Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Mobile Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Lead Security Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Security Technical Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (93.33%) Node.js
2 2 (4.44%) React Native
3 1 (2.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (62.22%) Public Cloud
2 9 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (15.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (97.78%) Windows
2 42 (93.33%) Android
2 42 (93.33%) Apple iOS
2 42 (93.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (95.56%) Security Architecture
2 42 (93.33%) CI/CD
3 40 (88.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 40 (88.89%) Mobile Device Management
3 40 (88.89%) Risk Management
3 40 (88.89%) Threat Intelligence
4 31 (68.89%) Agile
5 30 (66.67%) DevOps
6 27 (60.00%) Design Patterns
7 12 (26.67%) Microservices
8 10 (22.22%) Roadmaps
9 9 (20.00%) Product Strategy
9 9 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
10 7 (15.56%) Product Roadmap
10 7 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (15.56%) User Experience
11 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
12 2 (4.44%) API Design
12 2 (4.44%) Disaster Recovery
13 1 (2.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (57.78%) Security Cleared
2 25 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) CISSP
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Apple
1 5 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (4.44%) F5
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco
3 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.22%) Qualys
3 1 (2.22%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.22%) Sophos
3 1 (2.22%) Splunk
3 1 (2.22%) VMware