Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Zero Trust
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 113 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.12% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £461 - -
25th Percentile £478 £509 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £517 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% - -
75th Percentile £553 £530 -
90th Percentile £574 £532 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +3.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,366 1,525 2,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 82.09% 93.33% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 932 1,237
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £369 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £456 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -5.10% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £610 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 39 92
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.75 £12.58
25th Percentile £13.30 £20.02 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +10.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.66 £49.13
90th Percentile £67.40 £40.43 £61.43
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Scotland

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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
Edinburgh -1 2 £513 -3.98% 2
Zero Trust
UK

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) VMware