Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Zero Trust
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 4.10% - 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £538 - -
25th Percentile £555 - £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - £540
75th Percentile £850 - £560
90th Percentile £850 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £630 £600 £715
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.08% +43.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 112 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 70.90% 76.71% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 58 94
10th Percentile £313 £394 £374
25th Percentile £433 £438 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -3.96% +13.50%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £675 £805
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £592
% change year-on-year - -7.11% +12.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 26 112
10th Percentile £13.48 £32.10 £51.06
25th Percentile £45.90 £41.00 £53.40
Median hourly rate £52.43 £50.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -18.03% +3.56%
75th Percentile £61.92 £58.75 £70.11
90th Percentile £68.55 £63.13 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.00 £50.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -26.00% -12.82% +4.27%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Zero Trust

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Portsmouth

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) MODAF
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) SABSA
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) CCSK
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Foundry
1 3 (30.00%) Palantir