Zscaler Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Zscaler
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 16 October 2025, 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 115 137
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +45
Contract jobs citing Zscaler 6 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.35% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.60% 0.65% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £438 £405 £411
25th Percentile £494 £450 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -23.21% +59.09%
75th Percentile £581 £633 -
90th Percentile £593 £714 -
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +44.74%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,005 1,071 1,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 58.03% 49.26% 52.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 634 921
10th Percentile £255 £261 £213
25th Percentile £400 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £691
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £508
% change year-on-year -2.91% +1.38% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 41 49
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -61.23% +4.00% +245.32%
75th Percentile £35.37 £61.60 £66.44
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £75.42
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.25 £51.96
% change year-on-year -65.07% +10.18% +136.18%

Zscaler
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Zscaler job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Zscaler
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Zscaler.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Zscaler

Zscaler
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Zscaler in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Zscaler in the Thames Valley

Zscaler
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zscaler within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Berkshire +13 3 £400 -30.43%
Buckinghamshire +3 3 £550 +37.50% 1
Zscaler
South East

Zscaler
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) AI Transformation
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Podman
1 3 (50.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto