Zero Trust Contracts in the South East

Zero Trust
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 191 203
Rank change year-on-year +42 +12 +53
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 10 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.30% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £490 - £548
25th Percentile £550 £520 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £628 £698
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% -10.10% +5.36%
75th Percentile £625 £757 £699
90th Percentile £672 £772 £700
England median daily rate £600 £680 £627
% change year-on-year -11.76% +8.52% -3.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +47 6 £550 -27.87% 24
Berkshire +34 5 £500 -34.43% 14
Hampshire +26 4 £600 +11.11% 8
Buckinghamshire - 1 £675 - 6
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England

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) VPN
2 6 (60.00%) WAN
3 5 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (40.00%) MPLS
4 4 (40.00%) Network Security
5 2 (20.00%) DNS
5 2 (20.00%) LAN
5 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (10.00%) BGP
6 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (10.00%) NGFW
6 1 (10.00%) SSL
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (10.00%) VSAN
6 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Principal Technical Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Service Design
2 4 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 4 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Network Design
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CCIE
3 3 (30.00%) CEH
3 3 (30.00%) CISSP
4 2 (20.00%) CISM
5 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) CCNP
5 1 (10.00%) CCSK
5 1 (10.00%) CCSP
5 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (10.00%) GIAC
5 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (10.00%) SANS
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) CASB
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) Zscaler
3 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 4 (40.00%) F5
3 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (20.00%) Splunk
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
6 1 (10.00%) Aruba
6 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (10.00%) Forcepoint
6 1 (10.00%) Google
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft