Zero Trust Contracts

Zero Trust
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 375 419 544
Rank change year-on-year +44 +125 +187
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 148 164 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 108 100
10th Percentile £455 £504 £461
25th Percentile £513 £625 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £685 £628
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +9.03% +0.53%
75th Percentile £725 £825 £700
90th Percentile £855 £850 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £725 £594
% change year-on-year -22.07% +22.11% +0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 16
10th Percentile - - £66.38
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £70.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust.

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust.

Hourly rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England +38 133 £600 -11.76% 126
London +75 67 £650 +13.04% 70
UK excluding London +12 62 £565 -22.07% 67
Work from Home +62 53 £600 -15.79% 90
North of England -7 20 £500 -41.18% 13
Midlands +30 13 £625 -16.67% 16
West Midlands +21 12 £625 -16.67% 11
South East +42 10 £600 -4.38% 25
East of England - 10 £530 - 2
South West +7 9 £575 -11.54% 8
North West -19 9 £480 -43.53% 8
North East - 8 £534 -
Scotland +15 3 £517 - 3
Yorkshire +10 3 £600 +14.29% 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 5

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (4.05%) Confluence
1 6 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (60.81%) Azure
2 55 (37.16%) AWS
3 42 (28.38%) GCP
4 26 (17.57%) Entra ID
5 16 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (9.46%) IaaS
6 14 (9.46%) PaaS
7 13 (8.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (8.78%) Cloudflare
7 13 (8.78%) SaaS
8 12 (8.11%) Serverless
9 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.73%) GitHub
10 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (3.38%) OneDrive
13 4 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.70%) Azure Event Grid
13 4 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 43 (29.05%) Firewall
2 35 (23.65%) VPN
3 26 (17.57%) Network Security
4 19 (12.84%) WAN
5 14 (9.46%) DNS
6 13 (8.78%) MPLS
7 7 (4.73%) DHCP
7 7 (4.73%) LAN
7 7 (4.73%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.38%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.38%) VSAN
8 5 (3.38%) Wireless
9 4 (2.70%) 4G
9 4 (2.70%) ISDN
9 4 (2.70%) NetScaler
9 4 (2.70%) PSTN
10 3 (2.03%) BGP
10 3 (2.03%) Modbus
10 3 (2.03%) NGFW
11 2 (1.35%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.70%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.70%) Power BI
3 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.35%) Big Data
4 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) JIRA
2 7 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.38%) GitLab
4 3 (2.03%) CircleCI
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) MSI
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.27%) Finance
3 22 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.08%) Marketing
5 8 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.73%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (34.46%) Architect
2 24 (16.22%) Security Architect
3 23 (15.54%) Security Engineer
4 17 (11.49%) Consultant
4 17 (11.49%) Network Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Lead
6 12 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (7.43%) Security Consultant
8 9 (6.08%) Senior
9 8 (5.41%) Azure Architect
9 8 (5.41%) Network Architect
10 7 (4.73%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) IT Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Network Security Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Project Manager
12 5 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.38%) Technical Manager
12 5 (3.38%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.41%) ARM Templates
2 7 (4.73%) LDAP
2 7 (4.73%) OAuth
3 5 (3.38%) SAML
4 4 (2.70%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (2.70%) OpenID
5 3 (2.03%) Kafka
5 3 (2.03%) RESTful
5 3 (2.03%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.35%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.35%) React
6 2 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.35%) Swagger
7 1 (0.68%) FIDO
7 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.68%) JWT
7 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.68%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.68%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (10.81%) Security Posture
3 11 (7.43%) Public Cloud
4 10 (6.76%) Data Centre
5 9 (6.08%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.41%) Operational Technology
7 6 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.38%) SCADA
9 4 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.70%) IoT
9 4 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.70%) Reinsurance
10 3 (2.03%) CMDB
10 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (2.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 3 (2.03%) PKI
11 2 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.46%) Linux
1 14 (9.46%) Windows
2 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.68%) CentOS
4 1 (0.68%) Rocky
4 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (23.65%) Cloud Security
3 29 (19.59%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (18.92%) Agile
4 28 (18.92%) Identity Access Management
5 25 (16.89%) Security Architecture
6 24 (16.22%) Migration
7 19 (12.84%) Data Protection
7 19 (12.84%) DevOps
8 18 (12.16%) Risk Management
9 17 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (11.49%) RBAC
9 17 (11.49%) Roadmaps
10 16 (10.81%) Analytics
10 16 (10.81%) Information Security
10 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (10.81%) Network Architecture
11 15 (10.14%) CI/CD
11 15 (10.14%) Project Delivery
12 14 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.54%) Python
2 22 (14.86%) PowerShell
3 13 (8.78%) Bicep
4 11 (7.43%) SQL
5 4 (2.70%) Bash
5 4 (2.70%) Java
6 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.54%) CISSP
3 22 (14.86%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.81%) Azure Certification
4 16 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 11 (7.43%) CISM
6 11 (7.43%) Degree
7 9 (6.08%) CCIE
8 8 (5.41%) CCNP
9 5 (3.38%) CEH
9 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (2.03%) VCAP
11 3 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.35%) CCSA
12 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (25.68%) NIST
2 24 (16.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.11%) GDPR
4 6 (4.05%) GRC
4 6 (4.05%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.70%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.03%) NCSC
6 3 (2.03%) NIST 800
6 3 (2.03%) PMO
7 2 (1.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.68%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (18.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.08%) Docker
4 8 (5.41%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.70%) vSphere
6 2 (1.35%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.35%) IAG
7 1 (0.68%) Firmware
7 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (16.22%) Terraform
2 16 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (10.14%) Ansible
4 6 (4.05%) VxRail
5 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.70%) PowerCLI
5 4 (2.70%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.35%) Avamar
6 2 (1.35%) CASB
6 2 (1.35%) SCCM
7 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.86%) Cisco
3 19 (12.84%) VMware
4 17 (11.49%) Fortinet
5 15 (10.14%) CheckPoint
6 13 (8.78%) F5
6 13 (8.78%) Zscaler
7 11 (7.43%) Google
8 10 (6.76%) CyberArk
8 10 (6.76%) Palo Alto
9 8 (5.41%) Citrix
10 7 (4.73%) Dell
10 7 (4.73%) ServiceNow
11 6 (4.05%) Okta
12 5 (3.38%) Aruba
12 5 (3.38%) HP
12 5 (3.38%) Ping Identity
12 5 (3.38%) Veeam
13 4 (2.70%) Infoblox
13 4 (2.70%) Oracle