Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Zero Trust
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.69% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South West median daily rate £600 £673 £673
% change year-on-year -10.78% - +49.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £85.00 £80.78
% change year-on-year -23.53% +5.23% +14.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 151 140 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 85.31% 75.68% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 93 105
10th Percentile £160 £208 £158
25th Percentile £225 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £495 £488
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% +1.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £603
90th Percentile £649 £720 £696
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 26
10th Percentile £20.50 £12.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £47.00 £13.25 £46.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £20.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +204.88% -60.49% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.88 £62.22
90th Percentile £64.28 £57.50 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Somerset

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Taunton - 2 £550 -
Yeovil - 1 - -
Zero Trust
South West

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) MODAF Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) MODAF
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) UX Research
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware