Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Zero Trust
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.39% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £535 - -
25th Percentile £580 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 - £750
75th Percentile £831 - £775
90th Percentile £894 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £733
% change year-on-year - -21.50% +4.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 429 262 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.98% 89.42% 82.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 184 350
10th Percentile £204 £195 £245
25th Percentile £363 £296 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £563 £548 £619
90th Percentile £678 £656 £700
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 25 55
10th Percentile £25.95 £20.50 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% +36.59% -54.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £57.50
90th Percentile £73.49 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £27.76 £47.50
% change year-on-year +98.13% -41.56% -4.04%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Surrey

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Surrey

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Leatherhead - 1 £510 -
Zero Trust
South East

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler