Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Zero Trust
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 67 89
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 +31
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.12% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £651
25th Percentile - - £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -16.98% +26.19%
75th Percentile - - £678
90th Percentile - - £684
Yorkshire median daily rate £585 £550 £663
% change year-on-year +6.27% -16.98% +26.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 729 677 1,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.20% 85.37% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 425 788
10th Percentile £297 £325 £323
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +1.94%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile - £19.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%
75th Percentile £66.88 £37.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Zero Trust

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Leeds -5 1 £500 -9.09% 3
Zero Trust
Yorkshire

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk