Zero Trust Contracts in Reading

Zero Trust
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 80 77
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 4 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 0.89% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.03% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £625 £558 £298
25th Percentile £663 £580 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £618 £325
Median % change year-on-year +21.46% +90.00% -58.06%
75th Percentile £774 £717 £422
90th Percentile £775 £769 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £618 £325
% change year-on-year -2.83% +90.00% -58.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 974 962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.51% 86.42% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 522 634
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.86% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 23
10th Percentile - £14.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.90 £50.95
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £76.99 £74.40
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.46 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £56.89
% change year-on-year -39.48% +8.29% +118.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Reading over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CCSP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (75.00%) PSD2
3 1 (25.00%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform