Zero Trust Contracts in the West Midlands

Zero Trust
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 83 113 131
Rank change year-on-year +30 +18 -
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 15 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.10% 0.16% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.19% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £558 - £389
25th Percentile £575 £725 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £463
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +62.16% -
75th Percentile £813 £775 £509
90th Percentile £900 - £526
England median daily rate £575 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,210 1,603 2,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.58% 83.80% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 1,063 1,398
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £664 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.30
25th Percentile £12.91 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £17.62 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +18.42% +12.93%
75th Percentile £22.08 £40.25 £28.13
90th Percentile £38.67 £57.75 £50.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -22.00% -0.38% +49.28%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Coventry - 6 £625 - 1
Warwickshire - 5 £625 - 1
Worcestershire - 3 £900 -
Herefordshire - 3 £900 -
Birmingham +9 1 £575 -23.33% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Entra ID
2 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Collibra
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) 5G
2 2 (13.33%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (13.33%) Modbus
2 2 (13.33%) MQTT
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Internet
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Power BI
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (20.00%) GIS
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Security Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Systems Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) IoT Architect
5 1 (6.67%) IT Architect
5 1 (6.67%) IT Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) LDAP
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Security Posture
2 6 (40.00%) IoT
2 6 (40.00%) SCADA
3 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (20.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (13.33%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) RBAC
2 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
3 4 (26.67%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (20.00%) ITSM
4 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Bicep
2 3 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) NCSC
1 3 (20.00%) PMO
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) CyberArk
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (20.00%) Databricks
3 3 (20.00%) Informatica
3 3 (20.00%) SAP