Zscaler Contracts

Zscaler
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 507 579
Rank change year-on-year +75 +72 +137
Contract jobs citing Zscaler 88 75 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 0.41% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 54 77
10th Percentile £255 £300 £358
25th Percentile £404 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £734 £606
90th Percentile £675 £775 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -26.72% +10.48% -1.96%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
England +80 76 £438 -10.26% 58
London +58 42 £415 +18.57% 42
Work from Home +36 30 £413 -8.33% 45
UK excluding London +58 25 £425 -26.72% 28
North of England +20 9 £550 +10.00% 11
South East +50 8 £600 -1.23% 15
North West +21 7 £475 -5.00% 9
South West - 4 £382 -
East of England +30 2 £125 - 2
Yorkshire +5 2 £625 +25.00% 2
Midlands +17 1 £145 -80.67%
West Midlands +9 1 £145 -80.67%
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.18%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) AWS
3 15 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (15.91%) Entra ID
5 11 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (9.09%) Cloudflare
7 7 (7.95%) Asana
7 7 (7.95%) Slack
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (4.55%) Google Workspace
9 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.27%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.27%) SaaS
11 1 (1.14%) Akamai
11 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (31.82%) Firewall
2 27 (30.68%) VPN
3 22 (25.00%) Network Security
4 16 (18.18%) WAN
5 12 (13.64%) MPLS
6 10 (11.36%) Wireless
7 9 (10.23%) NGFW
8 8 (9.09%) DNS
8 8 (9.09%) Internet
9 7 (7.95%) BGP
9 7 (7.95%) DHCP
9 7 (7.95%) OSPF
9 7 (7.95%) SD-WAN
9 7 (7.95%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (5.68%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (5.68%) LAN
10 5 (5.68%) NetScaler
10 5 (5.68%) VLAN
10 5 (5.68%) Wireshark
11 4 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) JIRA
General
1 35 (39.77%) Finance
2 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.23%) Banking
4 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.55%) Marketing
6 3 (3.41%) Public Speaking
7 2 (2.27%) Electronics
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
7 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.14%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) Network Engineer
2 14 (15.91%) Architect
2 14 (15.91%) Security Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) IT Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Security Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Consultant
5 8 (9.09%) IT Support
5 8 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Senior
7 6 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (5.68%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 4 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) .NET
2 3 (3.41%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.14%) HTML
3 1 (1.14%) LDAP
3 1 (1.14%) XML
3 1 (1.14%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Onboarding
2 9 (10.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.41%) Blog
5 3 (3.41%) PKI
6 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.27%) Shadow IT
6 2 (2.27%) Social Media
7 1 (1.14%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) FMCG
7 1 (1.14%) IoT
7 1 (1.14%) SCADA
7 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.82%) Windows
2 12 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.95%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.55%) Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.45%) Migration
3 17 (19.32%) Cloud Security
4 14 (15.91%) Roadmaps
5 13 (14.77%) Zero Trust
6 11 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (10.23%) Network Architecture
8 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (7.95%) Data Loss Prevention
9 7 (7.95%) Network Design
9 7 (7.95%) Project Management
9 7 (7.95%) Runbook
10 6 (6.82%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (6.82%) Mentoring
10 6 (6.82%) Service Management
10 6 (6.82%) User Experience
11 5 (5.68%) Analytics
11 5 (5.68%) Computer Science
11 5 (5.68%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.77%) Python
2 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 11 (12.50%) CCNP
4 10 (11.36%) Degree
5 8 (9.09%) CCIE
6 6 (6.82%) CISSP
7 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.41%) CISA
7 3 (3.41%) CISM
7 3 (3.41%) CRISC
7 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.41%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.41%) PMP
8 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.27%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.14%) CCDP
9 1 (1.14%) CCSA
9 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) NIST
2 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) GRC
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.27%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.27%) PSD2
3 2 (2.27%) QA
3 2 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (28.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.14%) Firmware
4 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Ansible
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.41%) CASB
4 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.41%) Terraform
5 2 (2.27%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.14%) Plesk
6 1 (1.14%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 33 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 28 (31.82%) Cisco
3 24 (27.27%) Palo Alto
4 23 (26.14%) CheckPoint
5 20 (22.73%) F5
6 17 (19.32%) Fortinet
7 14 (15.91%) Citrix
8 10 (11.36%) Splunk
9 9 (10.23%) Aruba
10 8 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
10 8 (9.09%) Infoblox
10 8 (9.09%) Juniper
10 8 (9.09%) ServiceNow
11 6 (6.82%) Ruckus Wireless
12 5 (5.68%) SolarWinds
13 4 (4.55%) CyberArk
13 4 (4.55%) Google
13 4 (4.55%) Meraki
13 4 (4.55%) VMware
14 3 (3.41%) Blue Coat