Zero Trust Contracts in South Wales

Zero Trust
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £680 - -
Wales median daily rate £600 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 265 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.29% 80.30% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 144 271
10th Percentile £190 £143 £193
25th Percentile £266 £209 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £412 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% -15.44% -5.34%
75th Percentile £486 £550 £600
90th Percentile £623 £638 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 38 23
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £13.37 £20.12 £16.99
Median hourly rate £14.81 £25.48 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% +6.54% +20.12%
75th Percentile £20.75 £48.44 £40.63
90th Percentile - £54.13 £51.16
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.48 £23.92
% change year-on-year -19.54% +6.54% +32.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in South Wales over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Newport - 1 £500 -
Cardiff - 1 £700 - 1
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler