Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Wales

Zero Trust
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £663 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 389 354 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 82.94% 77.80% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 199 320
10th Percentile £183 £140 £175
25th Percentile £256 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £646
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 50 26
10th Percentile £13.42 £15.48 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.85 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £19.60 £24.33 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% -6.42% +30.59%
75th Percentile £25.12 £39.32 £50.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £48.88 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Zero Trust relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Wales

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Zero Trust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in Wales over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in Wales

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
South Wales - 4 £550 - 2
Zero Trust
UK

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) NGFW
2 1 (25.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) GCIH
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler