Zscaler
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Zscaler products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Zscaler over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Zscaler, Inc.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 581 710
Rank change year-on-year +55 +129 -105
Contract jobs citing Zscaler 72 138 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 0.54% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 77 101
10th Percentile £300 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £723 £600 £688
90th Percentile £775 £650 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.96% +26.00%

All Vendors
UK

Zscaler is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Zscaler
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Zscaler in the UK

Zscaler
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Zscaler in the UK

Zscaler
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zscaler over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Zscaler in the UK

Zscaler
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zscaler within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +66 53 £488 -7.14% 14
Work from Home +88 33 £450 -20.35% 5
UK excluding London +26 27 £550 +4.76% 7
London +71 22 £350 -37.22% 10
North of England +23 8 £500 -6.98%
West Midlands +16 6 £750 +48.51% 1
Midlands +8 6 £750 +48.51% 1
Scotland +33 5 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +18 5 £500 -
South East +22 4 £608 +59.34% 2
North West +7 3 £500 -9.09%
Wales +15 2 £463 -21.28%
East of England +9 2 - - 3

Zscaler
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 2 (2.78%) Confluence
1 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (45.83%) Azure
2 20 (27.78%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.94%) Asana
4 5 (6.94%) Cloudflare
4 5 (6.94%) Slack
5 4 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.56%) SaaS
6 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.78%) GCP
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub
6 2 (2.78%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.39%) Akamai
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (43.06%) Firewall
2 29 (40.28%) Network Security
3 25 (34.72%) VPN
4 23 (31.94%) WAN
5 18 (25.00%) SD-WAN
6 16 (22.22%) MPLS
7 13 (18.06%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (18.06%) DNS
8 11 (15.28%) BGP
8 11 (15.28%) DHCP
8 11 (15.28%) OSPF
9 10 (13.89%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (13.89%) Internet
9 10 (13.89%) LAN
9 10 (13.89%) TCP/IP
10 9 (12.50%) NGFW
11 8 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (11.11%) HTTP
11 8 (11.11%) Wireless
12 7 (9.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.39%) Power BI
1 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) JIRA
2 5 (6.94%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.78%) GitLab
3 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.39%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.39%) Maven
General
1 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Finance
4 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Publishing
7 1 (1.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (36.11%) Network Engineer
2 16 (22.22%) Architect
3 9 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Analyst
5 5 (6.94%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (6.94%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (6.94%) Consultant
5 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (6.94%) IT Support
5 5 (6.94%) Network Architect
5 5 (6.94%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Network Consultant
7 3 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Network Security Consultant
7 3 (4.17%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) Web Services
2 4 (5.56%) OpenID
2 4 (5.56%) SAML
3 3 (4.17%) LDAP
4 1 (1.39%) OAuth
4 1 (1.39%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.94%) Clustering
3 5 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.94%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.94%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.78%) Shadow IT
6 1 (1.39%) CMDB
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.39%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.06%) Network Architecture
2 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (13.89%) Cloud Security
3 10 (13.89%) Zero Trust
4 9 (12.50%) Migration
5 8 (11.11%) Agile
5 8 (11.11%) Investment Management
5 8 (11.11%) ITIL
5 8 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 8 (11.11%) SIEM
6 7 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (9.72%) Data Loss Prevention
6 7 (9.72%) Roadmaps
6 7 (9.72%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (8.33%) Analytics
7 6 (8.33%) Change Management
7 6 (8.33%) High Availability
7 6 (8.33%) Information Security
7 6 (8.33%) Programme Management
7 6 (8.33%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.28%) Python
2 1 (1.39%) C
2 1 (1.39%) Java
2 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (30.56%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (16.67%) CCIE
3 9 (12.50%) CCNP
4 5 (6.94%) CCDP
4 5 (6.94%) CCIE Data Center
5 4 (5.56%) Degree
6 3 (4.17%) CISSP
7 2 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.78%) CCNA
7 2 (2.78%) CCSP
7 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.39%) MCSE
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Terraform
2 7 (9.72%) Ansible
3 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.17%) Kibana
4 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.39%) CASB
5 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.39%) Observium
5 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (50.00%) Cisco
2 29 (40.28%) Palo Alto
3 15 (20.83%) CheckPoint
4 11 (15.28%) Aruba
5 10 (13.89%) Symantec
6 9 (12.50%) Fortinet
7 8 (11.11%) Infoblox
7 8 (11.11%) Meraki
8 7 (9.72%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
9 6 (8.33%) Citrix
9 6 (8.33%) F5
9 6 (8.33%) Juniper
9 6 (8.33%) Splunk
9 6 (8.33%) Tufin
10 5 (6.94%) Arista
11 4 (5.56%) Okta
12 3 (4.17%) Qualys
13 2 (2.78%) McAfee
13 2 (2.78%) Proofpoint