Zero Trust Contracts

Zero Trust
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 544 731
Rank change year-on-year +125 +187 -60
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 164 174 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.32% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 100 88
10th Percentile £504 £461 £512
25th Percentile £625 £540 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £628 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% +0.53% -
75th Percentile £825 £700 £738
90th Percentile £850 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £594 £590
% change year-on-year +22.11% +0.64% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 2
10th Percentile - £66.38 £53.38
25th Percentile - - £55.44
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year - +18.14% -
75th Percentile - - £63.44
90th Percentile - £70.13 £65.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £59.25
% change year-on-year - +18.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,597 53,655 80,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,227 37,238 56,437
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,746 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.98 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%

Zero Trust
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Zero Trust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zero Trust over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Zero Trust in the UK

Zero Trust
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Zero Trust.

Hourly rate trend for Zero Trust in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
England +100 152 £680 +8.52% 24
UK excluding London +104 114 £725 +22.11% 15
South West +38 48 £650 +13.04% 3
North of England +62 46 £850 +50.71%
North West +49 45 £850 +50.71%
Work from Home +83 32 £713 +7.55% 7
London +57 30 £575 -9.27% 11
South East +10 14 £628 -10.10% 7
Midlands +37 5 £750 +34.83% 2
West Midlands - 5 £750 -
Scotland +33 1 - -
Yorkshire +25 1 £525 -16.00%

Zero Trust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (3.05%) Confluence
2 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.22%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (24.39%) PaaS
2 39 (23.78%) SaaS
3 36 (21.95%) Azure
4 33 (20.12%) AWS
4 33 (20.12%) IaaS
5 28 (17.07%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (4.27%) GCP
7 5 (3.05%) Cloudflare
8 4 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.44%) GitHub
8 4 (2.44%) OCI
9 3 (1.83%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.22%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 63 (38.41%) VPN
2 56 (34.15%) Firewall
3 42 (25.61%) WAN
4 36 (21.95%) LAN
5 17 (10.37%) Network Security
6 8 (4.88%) PBX
6 8 (4.88%) VoIP
7 7 (4.27%) MPLS
8 5 (3.05%) DMZ
8 5 (3.05%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.44%) Kerberos
9 4 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.83%) DNS
10 3 (1.83%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.22%) DHCP
11 2 (1.22%) IPsec
11 2 (1.22%) NetScaler
11 2 (1.22%) SSL
11 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.22%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.44%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.88%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.22%) JIRA
3 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (29.88%) Public Sector
2 20 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.71%) Finance
4 8 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.88%) Banking
4 8 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.27%) Digital Economy
5 7 (4.27%) Legal
6 6 (3.66%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Law
8 1 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (71.34%) Architect
2 43 (26.22%) Technical Architect
3 37 (22.56%) Lead
3 37 (22.56%) Lead Architect
4 33 (20.12%) Network Architect
5 31 (18.90%) Technical Leader
6 20 (12.20%) Security Architect
7 15 (9.15%) Network Engineer
8 13 (7.93%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (6.10%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (4.27%) Network Specialist
10 7 (4.27%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.05%) Digital Architect
11 5 (3.05%) Digital Technical Architect
11 5 (3.05%) Senior
12 4 (2.44%) Azure Architect
12 4 (2.44%) Data Engineer
12 4 (2.44%) Network Security Engineer
13 3 (1.83%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (28.05%) Node.js
2 9 (5.49%) OpenID
3 7 (4.27%) LDAP
4 5 (3.05%) OAuth
4 5 (3.05%) SailPoint
4 5 (3.05%) SAML
5 4 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.83%) Regular Expression
6 3 (1.83%) XACML
7 2 (1.22%) Kafka
7 2 (1.22%) React Native
8 1 (0.61%) JWT
8 1 (0.61%) REST
8 1 (0.61%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.56%) Public Cloud
2 35 (21.34%) Data Centre
3 14 (8.54%) PKI
4 13 (7.93%) Security Posture
5 10 (6.10%) Product Ownership
5 10 (6.10%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (4.88%) Blackberry
6 8 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (4.27%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.66%) Private Cloud
9 5 (3.05%) Blockchain
9 5 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 3 (1.83%) IoT
10 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.22%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.22%) Shadow IT
12 1 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.61%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 48 (29.27%) Windows
2 43 (26.22%) Android
2 43 (26.22%) Apple iOS
2 43 (26.22%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.66%) Linux
4 2 (1.22%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.22%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.22%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.22%) zOS
5 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (34.15%) Security Architecture
2 45 (27.44%) Risk Management
3 44 (26.83%) CI/CD
4 42 (25.61%) Mobile Device Management
5 41 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 41 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 40 (24.39%) DevOps
7 37 (22.56%) Agile
8 35 (21.34%) Design Patterns
9 31 (18.90%) Network Management
10 30 (18.29%) Open Source
11 29 (17.68%) Roadmaps
12 27 (16.46%) Business Strategy
13 19 (11.59%) Network Architecture
14 18 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (10.98%) Microservices
15 17 (10.37%) Strategic Roadmap
16 14 (8.54%) Cloud Security
17 13 (7.93%) Enterprise Architecture
18 11 (6.71%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.10%) Python
2 8 (4.88%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.44%) Java
4 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.83%) Perl
5 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.61%) C
Qualifications
1 89 (54.27%) Security Cleared
2 50 (30.49%) SC Cleared
3 46 (28.05%) DV Cleared
4 14 (8.54%) Degree
5 12 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (6.10%) CISSP
7 8 (4.88%) CCIE
8 7 (4.27%) HND
8 7 (4.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (3.05%) CISM
10 4 (2.44%) CCNP
11 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.61%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.49%) NIST
2 4 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.83%) GRC
4 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.22%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.83%) vSphere
4 2 (1.22%) Squid
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (6.71%) Ansible
1 11 (6.71%) Terraform
2 4 (2.44%) PingFederate
3 3 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.22%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.61%) CASB
5 1 (0.61%) Consul
5 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.80%) Cisco
3 14 (8.54%) Fortinet
4 13 (7.93%) F5
4 13 (7.93%) Google
5 10 (6.10%) Juniper
5 10 (6.10%) Zscaler
6 9 (5.49%) Citrix
6 9 (5.49%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.88%) Avaya
7 8 (4.88%) Ericsson
7 8 (4.88%) IBM
7 8 (4.88%) Nokia
7 8 (4.88%) Ribbon
7 8 (4.88%) VMware
8 6 (3.66%) CyberArk
9 5 (3.05%) Apple
9 5 (3.05%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.05%) Oracle
10 4 (2.44%) Ping Identity