TrustSec Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco TrustSec
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring TrustSec skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TrustSec 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.029% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £588 -
% change year-on-year -19.15% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

TrustSec falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,491 2,284 2,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.74% 14.94% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,314 1,544 1,661
10th Percentile £297 £237 £250
25th Percentile £406 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -4.57%
75th Percentile £593 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 47 41
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £22.25
25th Percentile £25.63 £20.25 £25.38
Median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +19.10% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £83.60 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +75.38% -4.00% -31.82%

TrustSec
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TrustSec relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

TrustSec job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TrustSec
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TrustSec.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TrustSec

TrustSec
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TrustSec within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
TrustSec
UK

TrustSec
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) FactoryTalk
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens
1 1 (100.00%) Wonderware