Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Preston

Zero Trust
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 4.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £241 - -
25th Percentile £264 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 - -
75th Percentile £866 - -
90th Percentile £916 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 88 61 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 82.24% 89.71% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 24
10th Percentile £221 £285 £354
25th Percentile £472 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.45% +35.52%
75th Percentile £746 £630 £646
90th Percentile £844 £665 £908
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 34
10th Percentile £36.41 - £13.06
25th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.80 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +118.42% +79.02% -60.43%
75th Percentile £71.45 £47.12 £26.54
90th Percentile £71.50 £59.30 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £35.36
% change year-on-year +122.92% -18.69% -14.53%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Preston

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Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Preston over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Preston

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Discovery
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Zscaler