Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in South London

Zero Trust
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £570 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £810 - -
75th Percentile £815 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £525 £663 £685
% change year-on-year -20.75% -3.28% -2.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 184 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.45% 85.19% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 124 176
10th Percentile £408 £333 £188
25th Percentile £463 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £589
90th Percentile £700 £780 £656
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 21
10th Percentile £54.42 £23.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.88
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.28 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in South London

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in South London over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in South London

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Croydon - 3 £810 - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £335 -
Zero Trust
London

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Key Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) BCP
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds