Zero Trust Contracts in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 274 286 393
Rank change year-on-year +12 +107 +92
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 62 114 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.55% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.65% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 75 40
10th Percentile £454 £520 £463
25th Percentile £504 £625 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £725 £594
Median % change year-on-year -22.07% +22.11% +0.64%
75th Percentile £638 £850 £698
90th Percentile £740 - £698
UK median daily rate £600 £685 £628
% change year-on-year -12.41% +9.03% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK excluding London

Zero Trust
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 Zero Trust within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -7 20 £500 -41.18% 14
Midlands +30 13 £625 -16.67% 17
West Midlands +21 12 £625 -16.67% 12
South East +42 10 £600 -4.38% 27
East of England - 10 £530 - 2
South West +7 9 £575 -11.54% 7
North West -19 9 £480 -43.53% 9
North East - 8 £534 -
Scotland +15 3 £517 - 3
Yorkshire +10 3 £600 +14.29% 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
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UK

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.77%) Azure
2 16 (25.81%) AWS
3 9 (14.52%) Entra ID
4 8 (12.90%) Cloudflare
4 8 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (11.29%) GCP
6 6 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (8.06%) OneDrive
8 4 (6.45%) GitHub
8 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.84%) Apigee
10 2 (3.23%) Akamai
10 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.61%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.61%) IaaS
11 1 (1.61%) PaaS
11 1 (1.61%) SaaS
11 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (29.03%) Firewall
2 14 (22.58%) Network Security
2 14 (22.58%) VPN
3 10 (16.13%) DNS
3 10 (16.13%) WAN
4 5 (8.06%) MPLS
4 5 (8.06%) SD-WAN
4 5 (8.06%) VSAN
5 4 (6.45%) LAN
5 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.84%) DHCP
6 3 (4.84%) Wireless
7 2 (3.23%) 5G
7 2 (3.23%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (3.23%) Modbus
7 2 (3.23%) MQTT
8 1 (1.61%) 4G
8 1 (1.61%) BGP
8 1 (1.61%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.61%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.45%) Power BI
2 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) CircleCI
2 3 (4.84%) GitLab
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
General
1 30 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Military
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Architect
2 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (17.74%) Lead
3 10 (16.13%) Network Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Security Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Security Architect
5 7 (11.29%) Senior
6 5 (8.06%) Designer
6 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) IT Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Solutions Designer
8 3 (4.84%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) IT Security Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Network Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) LDAP
2 5 (8.06%) OAuth
3 3 (4.84%) RESTful
4 2 (3.23%) Kafka
4 2 (3.23%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.23%) OpenID
4 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.23%) SAML
4 2 (3.23%) Swagger
5 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.61%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.61%) Node.js
5 1 (1.61%) Playwright
5 1 (1.61%) Puppeteer
5 1 (1.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (16.13%) Security Posture
3 6 (9.68%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.06%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (8.06%) Public Cloud
4 5 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.45%) Operational Technology
5 4 (6.45%) SCADA
6 3 (4.84%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (4.84%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 3 (4.84%) IoT
7 2 (3.23%) NB-IoT
7 2 (3.23%) PKI
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.74%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) CentOS
4 1 (1.61%) Rocky
4 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.97%) Cloud Security
2 13 (20.97%) Data Protection
3 12 (19.35%) Agile
3 12 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (16.13%) Waterfall
6 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
6 9 (14.52%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (14.52%) Network Architecture
6 9 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (12.90%) Project Delivery
7 8 (12.90%) Security Architecture
8 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (9.68%) Data Loss Prevention
9 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
9 6 (9.68%) Migration
9 6 (9.68%) Network Design
9 6 (9.68%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.68%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 11 (17.74%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (4.84%) Java
4 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.61%) Bash
5 1 (1.61%) Bicep
5 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.13%) DV Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.29%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.68%) CISSP
5 6 (9.68%) Degree
6 5 (8.06%) CCIE
7 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.84%) CCNP
8 3 (4.84%) CEH
8 3 (4.84%) CISM
8 3 (4.84%) VCAP
8 3 (4.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.61%) CCSK
10 1 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (16.13%) NIST
3 3 (4.84%) GDPR
3 3 (4.84%) NCSC
3 3 (4.84%) PMO
4 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.61%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) VMware NSX
3 5 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.45%) vSphere
5 3 (4.84%) Docker
6 1 (1.61%) Firmware
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Ansible
2 8 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (9.68%) Terraform
3 6 (9.68%) VxRail
4 4 (6.45%) PowerCLI
4 4 (6.45%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.23%) Avamar
6 2 (3.23%) CASB
7 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.61%) Grafana
7 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.97%) Cisco
2 13 (20.97%) VMware
3 9 (14.52%) Fortinet
4 7 (11.29%) Zscaler
5 6 (9.68%) CheckPoint
5 6 (9.68%) CyberArk
5 6 (9.68%) Dell
5 6 (9.68%) F5
6 5 (8.06%) HP
6 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
6 5 (8.06%) Veeam
7 4 (6.45%) Citrix
7 4 (6.45%) Google
7 4 (6.45%) Oracle
8 3 (4.84%) Aruba
8 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (3.23%) Ruckus Wireless
9 2 (3.23%) Splunk