Zero Trust Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Zero Trust
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Zero Trust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 97 112
Rank change year-on-year -24 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.30% 0.070% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.083% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £518 - £651
25th Percentile £545 - £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -16.98% +26.19%
75th Percentile £602 - £678
90th Percentile £608 - £684
England median daily rate £531 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -16.78% +2.00% -1.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,207 1,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.93% 84.52% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 695 1,155
10th Percentile £263 £288 £300
25th Percentile £380 £404 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £654 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 39 29
10th Percentile £17.36 - £14.89
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.78
90th Percentile £75.50 £50.25 £44.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Zero Trust job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Zero Trust
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Yorkshire - 3 £599 - 1
West Yorkshire -11 1 £500 -9.09% 4
Zero Trust
England

Zero Trust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Programme Director
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Identity
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Change
2 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Situational Awareness
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Compliance Audit
3 2 (40.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) GDPR
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft