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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 287 380
Rank change year-on-year +5 +93 +100
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 66 109 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.64% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 70 43
10th Percentile £454 - £480
25th Percentile £502 £625 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +25.00% +3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £850 £693
90th Percentile £742 - £698
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +34.62%

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 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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

Zero Trust
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 17 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 17 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 -4 22 £500 -41.18% 14
Midlands +31 16 £625 -16.67% 17
West Midlands +19 15 £625 -16.67% 8
North West -17 10 £480 -43.53% 8
East of England - 10 £530 - 3
South East +40 9 £575 -21.50% 35
South West +7 9 £575 -11.54% 13
North East - 8 £534 -
Yorkshire +17 4 £600 +14.29% 6
Scotland +9 3 £517 -33.29% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 9
Zero Trust
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 (7.58%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) Azure
2 16 (24.24%) AWS
3 9 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 8 (12.12%) Cloudflare
4 8 (12.12%) GCP
4 8 (12.12%) GitHub
4 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
6 6 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (7.58%) OneDrive
8 4 (6.06%) Apigee
8 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.06%) Serverless
9 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.55%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 21 (31.82%) Firewall
2 15 (22.73%) Network Security
2 15 (22.73%) VPN
3 11 (16.67%) DNS
4 10 (15.15%) WAN
5 5 (7.58%) MPLS
5 5 (7.58%) SD-WAN
5 5 (7.58%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.06%) LAN
6 4 (6.06%) VSAN
7 3 (4.55%) DHCP
7 3 (4.55%) Wireless
8 2 (3.03%) 5G
8 2 (3.03%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (3.03%) Modbus
8 2 (3.03%) MQTT
8 2 (3.03%) SSL
9 1 (1.52%) BGP
9 1 (1.52%) Internet
9 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Power BI
2 6 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 4 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.55%) GIS
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) GitLab
1 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
1 5 (7.58%) JIRA
2 4 (6.06%) CircleCI
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.52%) Git
General
1 29 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.67%) Finance
4 7 (10.61%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (34.85%) Architect
2 12 (18.18%) Lead
3 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Network Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Security Engineer
6 8 (12.12%) Senior
7 7 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) Security Architect
8 5 (7.58%) Designer
8 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) IT Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Solutions Designer
10 3 (4.55%) Data Architect
10 3 (4.55%) IT Security Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Support Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) LDAP
2 6 (9.09%) OAuth
3 5 (7.58%) Kafka
4 4 (6.06%) RESTful
5 2 (3.03%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.03%) Node.js
5 2 (3.03%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.03%) OpenID
5 2 (3.03%) Playwright
5 2 (3.03%) Puppeteer
5 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.03%) React
5 2 (3.03%) SAML
5 2 (3.03%) Swagger
6 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (15.15%) Security Posture
3 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.61%) SCADA
4 6 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 6 (9.09%) IoT
5 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
6 4 (6.06%) Operational Technology
6 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (3.03%) NB-IoT
8 2 (3.03%) PKI
9 1 (1.52%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Windows
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.52%) CentOS
4 1 (1.52%) Rocky
4 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (21.21%) Cloud Security
3 13 (19.70%) Data Protection
4 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 12 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (16.67%) Agile
5 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (15.15%) Waterfall
7 9 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (13.64%) Network Architecture
7 9 (13.64%) RBAC
7 9 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (12.12%) Data Governance
8 8 (12.12%) DevOps
8 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (12.12%) Project Delivery
8 8 (12.12%) Security Architecture
9 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (10.61%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) Python
2 12 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 12 (18.18%) SQL
3 4 (6.06%) Bicep
3 4 (6.06%) Java
3 4 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.15%) DV Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.61%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.09%) CISSP
5 6 (9.09%) Degree
6 5 (7.58%) CCIE
7 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.55%) CCNP
8 3 (4.55%) CEH
8 3 (4.55%) CISM
8 3 (4.55%) VCAP
8 3 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.52%) CCSK
10 1 (1.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (16.67%) NIST
3 6 (9.09%) GDPR
4 3 (4.55%) NCSC
4 3 (4.55%) PMO
5 2 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (19.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.09%) VMware NSX
3 5 (7.58%) Docker
4 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.06%) vSphere
5 1 (1.52%) Firmware
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (16.67%) Terraform
2 10 (15.15%) Ansible
3 8 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (9.09%) VxRail
5 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
6 4 (6.06%) PowerCLI
6 4 (6.06%) vCenter Server
7 3 (4.55%) Grafana
7 3 (4.55%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.03%) Avamar
8 2 (3.03%) CASB
9 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.52%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.52%) Puppet
9 1 (1.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.18%) Cisco
2 12 (18.18%) VMware
3 9 (13.64%) Fortinet
4 7 (10.61%) Zscaler
5 6 (9.09%) CheckPoint
5 6 (9.09%) CyberArk
5 6 (9.09%) Dell
5 6 (9.09%) F5
5 6 (9.09%) Oracle
6 5 (7.58%) Google
6 5 (7.58%) HP
6 5 (7.58%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.58%) Veeam
7 4 (6.06%) Citrix
8 3 (4.55%) Aruba
8 3 (4.55%) Databricks
8 3 (4.55%) Informatica
8 3 (4.55%) SAP
8 3 (4.55%) Splunk