Zscaler Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Zscaler
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of Zscaler products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zscaler over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 54 61
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Zscaler 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.45% 0.23% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 0.81% 0.39% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £497 - -
25th Percentile £540 £413 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +45.88% -29.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £632 £438 £625
90th Percentile £634 - -
North West median daily rate £622 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +10.49% -6.25% +9.09%

All Vendors
Cheshire

Zscaler falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 370 256 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 54.90% 58.58% 56.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 151 187
10th Percentile £313 £300 £239
25th Percentile £375 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £622 £578 £561
90th Percentile £716 £685 £614
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.10% - +3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.56 £22.52 £16.88
Median hourly rate £22.01 £47.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.66% +168.06% +10.27%
75th Percentile £33.63 £86.00 £25.90
90th Percentile £86.00 - £36.50
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -8.92% +83.41% -47.50%

Zscaler
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Zscaler relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Zscaler job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Zscaler
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Zscaler.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Zscaler

Zscaler
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zscaler in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Zscaler in Cheshire

Zscaler
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zscaler within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Knutsford -25 3 £620 +45.88% 4
Zscaler
North West

Zscaler
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Network Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Co-Creation
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) ForeScout
3 1 (33.33%) Infoblox