Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Zero Trust
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 8.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Somerset median daily rate £550 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23 23 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 92.00% 95.83% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 30
10th Percentile £490 £455 £608
25th Percentile £510 £513 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £688
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -16.36% +19.10%
75th Percentile £715 £656 £729
90th Percentile £800 £935 £750
Somerset median daily rate £425 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.06% +5.49%

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) MODAF Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) MODAF
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Research
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware