Zero Trust Contracts in the Thames Valley

Zero Trust
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 143 150
Rank change year-on-year +47 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.074% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.085% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £500 £756 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £763 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.87% +52.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £626 £769 -
90th Percentile £672 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £628 £698
% change year-on-year -4.38% -10.10% +5.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +34 5 £500 -34.43% 14
Buckinghamshire - 1 £675 - 6
Zero Trust
South East

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
5 1 (16.67%) BGP
5 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (16.67%) NGFW
5 1 (16.67%) SSL
5 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (16.67%) VSAN
5 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Advanced Persistent Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Business Case
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) SOAR
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CEH
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) CCSK
3 1 (16.67%) CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) GIAC
3 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SANS
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) CASB
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Aruba
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler