Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Zero Trust
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.44% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £568 - -
25th Percentile £580 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 - -
75th Percentile £605 - -
90th Percentile £609 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £585 £550 £663
% change year-on-year +6.27% -16.98% +26.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 654 413 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.75% 89.20% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 210 247
10th Percentile £307 £225 £370
25th Percentile £389 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £523 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -11.06% +17.49%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £657
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +27.13%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Sheffield - 3 £599 - 1
Zero Trust
Yorkshire

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Programme Director
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Services Director
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Identity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft