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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 426 522
Rank change year-on-year +59 +96 +215
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 150 161 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 104 101
10th Percentile £452 £550 £463
25th Percentile £509 £625 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £701 £825 £698
90th Percentile £835 £850 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £750 £600
% change year-on-year -24.67% +25.00% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 17
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £70.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +34.62%

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 26,416 37,097 52,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.26% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,973 23,888 36,212
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 2,438 1,719
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%

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 13 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 13 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 +53 135 £575 -17.86% 159
London +72 67 £600 - 89
UK excluding London -1 66 £565 -24.67% 86
Work from Home +73 55 £588 -18.97% 106
North of England -3 21 £500 -41.18% 14
Midlands +32 16 £625 -16.67% 19
West Midlands +30 15 £625 -16.67% 9
South East +43 10 £600 -18.09% 34
North West -15 10 £480 -43.53% 10
East of England - 10 £530 - 2
South West +8 9 £575 -11.54% 11
North East - 8 £534 -
Yorkshire +17 3 £600 +14.29% 4
Scotland +10 3 £517 -33.29% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 10

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 (4.00%) Confluence
1 6 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (60.67%) Azure
2 52 (34.67%) AWS
3 43 (28.67%) GCP
4 28 (18.67%) Entra ID
5 17 (11.33%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (9.33%) IaaS
6 14 (9.33%) PaaS
6 14 (9.33%) Serverless
7 13 (8.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (8.67%) SaaS
8 11 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.67%) Cloudflare
9 10 (6.67%) GitHub
9 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.67%) Power Platform
12 6 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (3.33%) OneDrive
14 4 (2.67%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 45 (30.00%) Firewall
2 33 (22.00%) VPN
3 27 (18.00%) Network Security
4 16 (10.67%) WAN
5 15 (10.00%) DNS
6 10 (6.67%) MPLS
7 8 (5.33%) DHCP
8 7 (4.67%) LAN
8 7 (4.67%) SD-WAN
9 5 (3.33%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.33%) VSAN
9 5 (3.33%) Wireless
10 4 (2.67%) 4G
10 4 (2.67%) ISDN
10 4 (2.67%) NGFW
10 4 (2.67%) PSTN
11 3 (2.00%) BGP
11 3 (2.00%) Modbus
11 3 (2.00%) VLAN
12 2 (1.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (4.67%) Data Lake
1 7 (4.67%) Power BI
2 6 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (2.00%) GIS
5 2 (1.33%) Big Data
5 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 12 (8.00%) JIRA
2 8 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.00%) GitLab
4 4 (2.67%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.67%) MSI
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.67%) Finance
3 21 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.00%) Marketing
5 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Banking
9 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Local Government
10 1 (0.67%) Military
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (35.33%) Architect
2 24 (16.00%) Security Engineer
3 22 (14.67%) Security Architect
4 17 (11.33%) Consultant
5 16 (10.67%) Lead
6 15 (10.00%) Network Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Security Consultant
10 10 (6.67%) Senior
11 8 (5.33%) Azure Architect
11 8 (5.33%) Network Architect
11 8 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.67%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (4.67%) Network Security Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) IT Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) Project Manager
14 5 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (3.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.00%) OAuth
2 8 (5.33%) ARM Templates
2 8 (5.33%) LDAP
3 6 (4.00%) Kafka
3 6 (4.00%) SAML
4 5 (3.33%) OpenID
5 4 (2.67%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (2.67%) RESTful
5 4 (2.67%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.00%) React
7 2 (1.33%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.33%) Node.js
7 2 (1.33%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.33%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.33%) Playwright
7 2 (1.33%) Puppeteer
7 2 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.33%) Swagger
8 1 (0.67%) JWT
8 1 (0.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 12 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.33%) Operational Technology
5 8 (5.33%) SCADA
6 7 (4.67%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.00%) IoT
7 6 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.67%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.67%) Reinsurance
10 3 (2.00%) CMDB
10 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (2.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 3 (2.00%) PKI
11 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.33%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.00%) Windows
2 14 (9.33%) Linux
3 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.67%) CentOS
5 1 (0.67%) Rocky
5 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (24.00%) Cloud Security
3 29 (19.33%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (19.33%) Identity Access Management
4 28 (18.67%) Agile
5 23 (15.33%) Migration
5 23 (15.33%) Security Architecture
6 22 (14.67%) DevOps
6 22 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (13.33%) RBAC
8 19 (12.67%) Analytics
8 19 (12.67%) Data Protection
9 18 (12.00%) CI/CD
9 18 (12.00%) Risk Management
10 17 (11.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (10.67%) Information Security
11 16 (10.67%) Roadmaps
12 15 (10.00%) Project Delivery
13 14 (9.33%) DevSecOps
13 14 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.67%) Python
2 24 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 16 (10.67%) Bicep
4 15 (10.00%) SQL
5 6 (4.00%) Bash
6 5 (3.33%) Java
6 5 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.67%) CISSP
3 20 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.67%) Azure Certification
5 13 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (8.00%) DV Cleared
7 11 (7.33%) Degree
8 10 (6.67%) CISM
9 8 (5.33%) CCNP
10 6 (4.00%) CCIE
11 5 (3.33%) CEH
11 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
13 3 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (2.00%) VCAP
13 3 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (1.33%) CCSA
14 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.00%) NIST
2 27 (18.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (9.33%) GDPR
4 6 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.33%) GRC
5 5 (3.33%) SOC 2
6 4 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.00%) NCSC
7 3 (2.00%) NIST 800
7 3 (2.00%) PMO
8 2 (1.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (19.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.67%) Docker
2 10 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.33%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.67%) vSphere
5 2 (1.33%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.67%) Firmware
6 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.67%) IAG
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (19.33%) Terraform
2 17 (11.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.33%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (8.00%) Ansible
4 6 (4.00%) VxRail
5 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.67%) PowerCLI
6 4 (2.67%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.33%) Avamar
7 2 (1.33%) CASB
7 2 (1.33%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.33%) Grafana
7 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 48 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.67%) Cisco
2 19 (12.67%) VMware
3 15 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 12 (8.00%) CheckPoint
4 12 (8.00%) Google
5 11 (7.33%) CyberArk
5 11 (7.33%) Palo Alto
6 10 (6.67%) F5
6 10 (6.67%) Zscaler
7 7 (4.67%) Dell
7 7 (4.67%) Okta
7 7 (4.67%) ServiceNow
8 6 (4.00%) Databricks
8 6 (4.00%) Oracle
9 5 (3.33%) Aruba
9 5 (3.33%) Citrix
9 5 (3.33%) HP
9 5 (3.33%) SAP
9 5 (3.33%) Veeam