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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 526 728
Rank change year-on-year +111 +202 -62
Contract jobs citing Zero Trust 159 175 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.31% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.34% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 100 90
10th Percentile £550 £461 £486
25th Percentile £625 £535 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - +0.81%
75th Percentile £825 £698 £738
90th Percentile £850 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £600 £583
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 3
10th Percentile - £66.00 £43.18
25th Percentile - - £46.49
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year - +34.62% -
75th Percentile - - £59.63
90th Percentile - £70.10 £64.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +34.62% -

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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

Zero Trust
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 15 May 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 +84 148 £700 +12.00% 26
UK excluding London +89 110 £750 +25.00% 15
South West +46 46 £650 +13.04% 3
North of England +47 45 £850 +50.71% 3
North West +47 44 £850 +50.71% 1
Work from Home +74 31 £725 +11.88% 6
London +58 31 £600 -4.24% 13
South East +14 14 £733 +4.94% 5
Midlands +30 3 £750 +42.86% 2
West Midlands +20 3 £750 +62.16% 1
Scotland +47 2 £775 - 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £525 -16.00% 2

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 4 (2.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.26%) nginx
2 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.16%) PaaS
2 39 (24.53%) SaaS
3 33 (20.75%) IaaS
4 29 (18.24%) Azure
5 28 (17.61%) Cloud Computing
6 27 (16.98%) AWS
7 7 (4.40%) GCP
8 5 (3.14%) Cloudflare
9 4 (2.52%) OCI
10 3 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.89%) GitHub
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.26%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.26%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 58 (36.48%) VPN
2 52 (32.70%) Firewall
3 42 (26.42%) WAN
4 36 (22.64%) LAN
5 11 (6.92%) Network Security
6 8 (5.03%) PBX
6 8 (5.03%) VoIP
7 7 (4.40%) MPLS
8 5 (3.14%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.52%) Kerberos
9 4 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.89%) DNS
10 3 (1.89%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (1.26%) DHCP
11 2 (1.26%) IPsec
11 2 (1.26%) SSL
11 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.26%) tcpdump
11 2 (1.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.52%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.26%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (30.19%) Public Sector
2 19 (11.95%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.55%) Finance
4 9 (5.66%) Banking
5 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.03%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.40%) Digital Economy
6 7 (4.40%) Legal
7 6 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (73.58%) Architect
2 43 (27.04%) Technical Architect
3 37 (23.27%) Lead
3 37 (23.27%) Lead Architect
4 33 (20.75%) Network Architect
5 31 (19.50%) Technical Leader
6 21 (13.21%) Security Architect
7 12 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (6.29%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (6.29%) Network Engineer
9 7 (4.40%) Network Specialist
10 5 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Digital Architect
10 5 (3.14%) Digital Technical Architect
10 5 (3.14%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Senior
11 4 (2.52%) Azure Architect
12 3 (1.89%) AWS Architect
12 3 (1.89%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (28.93%) Node.js
2 9 (5.66%) OpenID
3 7 (4.40%) LDAP
4 5 (3.14%) OAuth
4 5 (3.14%) SailPoint
4 5 (3.14%) SAML
5 4 (2.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.89%) Kafka
6 3 (1.89%) Regular Expression
6 3 (1.89%) XACML
7 2 (1.26%) React Native
8 1 (0.63%) JWT
8 1 (0.63%) REST
8 1 (0.63%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (23.27%) Public Cloud
2 35 (22.01%) Data Centre
3 13 (8.18%) Security Posture
4 10 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.29%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (5.66%) PKI
6 8 (5.03%) Blackberry
6 8 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (4.40%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.77%) Private Cloud
9 5 (3.14%) Blockchain
9 5 (3.14%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (2.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (2.52%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.89%) IoT
12 2 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.26%) Shadow IT
13 1 (0.63%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.63%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 49 (30.82%) Windows
2 43 (27.04%) Android
2 43 (27.04%) Apple iOS
2 43 (27.04%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.40%) Linux
4 3 (1.89%) zOS
5 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.26%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.48%) Security Architecture
2 45 (28.30%) Risk Management
3 44 (27.67%) CI/CD
4 42 (26.42%) Mobile Device Management
5 41 (25.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 41 (25.79%) Threat Intelligence
6 38 (23.90%) DevOps
7 36 (22.64%) Agile
8 35 (22.01%) Design Patterns
9 31 (19.50%) Network Management
10 30 (18.87%) Open Source
11 29 (18.24%) Roadmaps
12 27 (16.98%) Business Strategy
13 19 (11.95%) Network Architecture
14 18 (11.32%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (11.32%) Microservices
15 17 (10.69%) Strategic Roadmap
16 13 (8.18%) Enterprise Architecture
17 12 (7.55%) Identity Access Management
18 11 (6.92%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.29%) Python
2 6 (3.77%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.52%) Java
4 3 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.89%) Perl
5 2 (1.26%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 82 (51.57%) Security Cleared
2 47 (29.56%) DV Cleared
3 42 (26.42%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.81%) Degree
5 12 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (6.29%) CISSP
7 8 (5.03%) CCIE
8 7 (4.40%) HND
8 7 (4.40%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (3.14%) CISM
10 4 (2.52%) CCNP
11 3 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.63%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.66%) NIST
2 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.89%) GRC
3 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.26%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.89%) vSphere
4 2 (1.26%) Squid
4 2 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.63%) Firmware
5 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (2.52%) Ansible
1 4 (2.52%) PingFederate
1 4 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (2.52%) Terraform
2 2 (1.26%) HAProxy
2 2 (1.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.63%) CASB
3 1 (0.63%) Consul
3 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.63%) NetIQ Identity Manager
3 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.21%) Cisco
3 13 (8.18%) Google
4 11 (6.92%) Zscaler
5 10 (6.29%) Fortinet
5 10 (6.29%) Juniper
6 9 (5.66%) Citrix
6 9 (5.66%) F5
6 9 (5.66%) VMware
7 8 (5.03%) Avaya
7 8 (5.03%) Ericsson
7 8 (5.03%) IBM
7 8 (5.03%) Nokia
7 8 (5.03%) Ribbon
8 6 (3.77%) CyberArk
9 5 (3.14%) Apple
9 5 (3.14%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.14%) Oracle
9 5 (3.14%) Splunk
10 4 (2.52%) Palo Alto