Zero Trust Contracts with Work from Home Options

Zero Trust
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Zero Trust skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Zero Trust over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 391 569
Rank change year-on-year +79 +178 -99
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 32 80 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.31% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.35% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 40
10th Percentile £467 £540 £486
25th Percentile £563 £564 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £650 £583
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +11.59% -11.24%
75th Percentile £850 £698 £641
90th Percentile - £738 £750
UK median daily rate £685 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +9.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +34.62% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Zero Trust is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Zero Trust
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Zero Trust trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Zero Trust.

Zero Trust daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Zero Trust over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Zero Trust daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Zero Trust.

Zero Trust hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (6.25%) nginx
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) IaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) Firewall
1 16 (50.00%) VPN
2 6 (18.75%) Network Security
3 3 (9.38%) WAN
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (6.25%) IPsec
4 2 (6.25%) LAN
4 2 (6.25%) MPLS
4 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
4 2 (6.25%) SSL
4 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.25%) tcpdump
4 2 (6.25%) Wireshark
5 1 (3.13%) DNS
5 1 (3.13%) Internet
5 1 (3.13%) NGFW
5 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (9.38%) Retail
2 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Law
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Architect
2 10 (31.25%) Technical Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Lead
3 6 (18.75%) Lead Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Security Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Technical Leader
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Audio Visual Support
6 2 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Mobile Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Support
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) CISSP Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Identity Management Architect
7 1 (3.13%) IT Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Node.js
2 3 (9.38%) LDAP
3 2 (6.25%) React Native
4 1 (3.13%) JWT
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth
4 1 (3.13%) OpenID
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Public Cloud
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) IoT
3 3 (9.38%) PKI
4 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.25%) Shadow IT
4 2 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (3.13%) BYOD
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.13%) FMCG
5 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 10 (31.25%) Android
2 10 (31.25%) Apple iOS
2 10 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.25%) Mac OS X
3 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.13%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Security Architecture
2 14 (43.75%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Agile
4 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 8 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 8 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 8 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 8 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 4 (12.50%) IT Strategy
7 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 3 (9.38%) Application Security
8 3 (9.38%) Fintech
8 3 (9.38%) GitOps
8 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (9.38%) Network Architecture
8 3 (9.38%) Thought Leadership
8 3 (9.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) Kotlin
2 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) CISSP
2 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.25%) CISM
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCIE
4 1 (3.13%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.50%) NIST
2 3 (9.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (9.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Squid
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) HAProxy
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Cisco
2 5 (15.63%) Zscaler
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
3 4 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.25%) Juniper
5 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (3.13%) Aruba
6 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.13%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Ping Identity
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat