Zero Trust Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Zero Trust
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 316 396
Rank change year-on-year +67 +80 +173
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 52 32 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 46
10th Percentile £445 £467 £540
25th Percentile £509 £563 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +9.62% +11.59%
75th Percentile £725 £850 £698
90th Percentile £835 - £738
UK median daily rate £600 £685 £625
% change year-on-year -12.41% +9.60% -
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 median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,024 13,319 22,924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 87.90% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,199 8,917 16,193
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 575 527
10th Percentile £13.96 £15.17 £18.67
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.52 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.75 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.15 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Zero Trust
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Zero Trust trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Zero Trust over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (55.77%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) GCP
3 14 (26.92%) AWS
4 9 (17.31%) Entra ID
5 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.69%) IaaS
6 4 (7.69%) PaaS
6 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.69%) SaaS
7 3 (5.77%) Apigee
7 3 (5.77%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.77%) Cloudflare
7 3 (5.77%) Serverless
8 2 (3.85%) GitHub
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.00%) Firewall
2 10 (19.23%) Network Security
3 8 (15.38%) DNS
3 8 (15.38%) VPN
4 7 (13.46%) WAN
5 5 (9.62%) DHCP
5 5 (9.62%) LAN
6 4 (7.69%) SD-WAN
6 4 (7.69%) Wireless
7 3 (5.77%) BGP
7 3 (5.77%) MPLS
7 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.85%) 4G
8 2 (3.85%) ISDN
8 2 (3.85%) PSTN
8 2 (3.85%) VSAN
9 1 (1.92%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.92%) HTTP
9 1 (1.92%) Modbus
9 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 4 (7.69%) Power BI
2 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) GitLab
1 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.69%) JIRA
3 3 (5.77%) CircleCI
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.92%) MSI
5 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (40.38%) Finance
2 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Architect
2 11 (21.15%) Security Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Consultant
4 7 (13.46%) Security Consultant
5 6 (11.54%) Lead
5 6 (11.54%) Network Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Designer
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Network Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Information Assurance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) LDAP
2 4 (7.69%) OAuth
3 3 (5.77%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.77%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (5.77%) RESTful
4 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.85%) Node.js
4 2 (3.85%) Playwright
4 2 (3.85%) Puppeteer
4 2 (3.85%) React
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.92%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.92%) SAML
5 1 (1.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
1 6 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (9.62%) Security Posture
2 5 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.77%) Operational Technology
4 3 (5.77%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Windows
2 7 (13.46%) Linux
3 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
2 12 (23.08%) Security Architecture
3 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
3 9 (17.31%) Cloud Security
3 9 (17.31%) Migration
4 8 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (15.38%) DevOps
5 7 (13.46%) Agile
5 7 (13.46%) Business Strategy
5 7 (13.46%) GAP Analysis
5 7 (13.46%) Risk Management
6 6 (11.54%) Cyber Assurance
6 6 (11.54%) Cyber Resilience
6 6 (11.54%) DevSecOps
6 6 (11.54%) Domain Models
6 6 (11.54%) High Availability
6 6 (11.54%) Information Security
6 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.62%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.62%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) Bicep
5 3 (5.77%) Java
5 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (13.46%) CCNP
2 7 (13.46%) CISSP
3 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.77%) CISM
5 2 (3.85%) CCIE
5 2 (3.85%) Degree
5 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) CCNA
6 1 (1.92%) CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) CEH
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.92%) VCAP
6 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.92%) NIST
2 5 (9.62%) GDPR
3 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.85%) GRC
4 2 (3.85%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.77%) Docker
3 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.77%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.92%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (13.46%) Terraform
2 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.85%) Ansible
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.92%) CASB
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.92%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.92%) SCCM
4 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Cisco
2 6 (11.54%) CyberArk
3 5 (9.62%) CheckPoint
3 5 (9.62%) Palo Alto
3 5 (9.62%) VMware
3 5 (9.62%) Zscaler
4 4 (7.69%) Aruba
4 4 (7.69%) F5
4 4 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 4 (7.69%) Oracle
4 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.77%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (5.77%) Google
5 3 (5.77%) Infoblox
5 3 (5.77%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (3.85%) PagerDuty
6 2 (3.85%) Splunk
7 1 (1.92%) Meraki
7 1 (1.92%) Thycotic