Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Zero Trust
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 9 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.72% 3.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 3.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £534 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £625 £534 -
% change year-on-year +17.04% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 424 211 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 81.23% 84.06% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 153 96
10th Percentile £313 £215 £311
25th Percentile £400 £350 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £590
90th Percentile £625 £635 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 5 36
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.50
25th Percentile £42.83 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +293.94% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - £50.70 £50.00
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £14.07 £16.48
% change year-on-year +361.98% -14.62% -59.56%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Tyne and Wear

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 8 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -21 9 £625 +17.04% 5
Zero Trust
North East

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) OCI
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) BGP
2 6 (66.67%) BIG-IP
2 6 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (66.67%) OSPF
2 6 (66.67%) VXLAN
3 5 (55.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (55.56%) SD-WAN
4 4 (44.44%) WAN
5 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (33.33%) WLAN
6 2 (22.22%) Network Security
7 1 (11.11%) NGFW
7 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Data Centre
2 5 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (55.56%) Load Balancing
5 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) High Availability
6 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
7 2 (22.22%) DevOps
7 2 (22.22%) Network Design
7 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
8 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
8 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
8 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
8 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
8 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
8 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Icinga
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Palo Alto
2 6 (66.67%) F5
3 5 (55.56%) Arista
4 4 (44.44%) Aruba
5 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint