Zero Trust Contracts in the North West

Zero Trust
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 82 143
Rank change year-on-year -25 +61 +42
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 18 46 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.83% 1.87% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 2.22% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 9
10th Percentile £445 - £505
25th Percentile £460 £775 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £850 £560
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +51.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £703 - £565
90th Percentile £755 - £592
England median daily rate £575 £688 £605
% change year-on-year -16.36% +13.64% -6.92%
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,903 2,074 2,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.10% 84.52% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 1,268 1,880
10th Percentile £274 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £590
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 194 170
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.99
Median hourly rate £28.75 £32.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +4.78% +32.78%
75th Percentile £56.88 £51.91 £46.11
90th Percentile £74.75 £70.90 £62.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +63.46%

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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 30 July 2025.

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 30 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
Manchester -29 9 £500 -41.18% 5
Cheshire - 9 £600 - 3
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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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (27.78%) OneDrive
3 4 (22.22%) Apigee
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) Internet
2 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (11.11%) VSAN
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) CircleCI
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Security Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Network Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) OAuth
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 2 (11.11%) Playwright
2 2 (11.11%) Puppeteer
2 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (11.11%) React
2 2 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
2 5 (27.78%) Data Governance
2 5 (27.78%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
2 5 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) API Development
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) Security Hardening
3 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Edge Computing
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Minimum Viable Product
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) CCNP
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GxP
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 2 (11.11%) vSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (11.11%) PowerCLI
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Google
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (16.67%) Zscaler
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) PagerDuty