Zerto Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Zerto
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Zerto products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zerto over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Zerto Ltd.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 356 416
Rank change year-on-year -41 +60 +86
Contract jobs citing Zerto 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.012% 0.020%
As % of the Vendors category 0.024% 0.028% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £438 £329
25th Percentile £325 £448 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £469 £463
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +1.35% -7.50%
75th Percentile £375 £486 £509
90th Percentile - £494 £549
UK median daily rate £600 £469 £530
% change year-on-year +28.00% -11.56% +2.02%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Zerto falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,328 7,253 9,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.28% 45.17% 47.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,394 4,210 6,128
10th Percentile £220 £220 £210
25th Percentile £370 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 646 421 528
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.55
25th Percentile £17.49 £16.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £27.35 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.56% -38.54% +97.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £61.90
90th Percentile £74.63 £74.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% -32.58% +73.08%

Zerto
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Zerto job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Zerto
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Zerto
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 Zerto within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
South East - 1 £350 - 2
Zerto
UK

Zerto
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) IT Audit
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) VMware