Hybrid/Remote Zscaler Contract Job Trends

Zscaler
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 278 353
Rank change year-on-year +23 +75 +198
Contract jobs citing Zscaler 49 57 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.08% 1.02% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 39
10th Percentile £396 £375 £423
25th Percentile £400 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -6.78% +9.77%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £634
90th Percentile £750 £775 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £569 £564
% change year-on-year -3.30% +0.89% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 £71.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% - -
UK median hourly rate £101.50 £71.25 -
% change year-on-year +42.46% - -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,545 5,594 8,983
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 46.40% 44.00% 44.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,815 3,411 5,934
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £419 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £645
90th Percentile £716 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 109 211
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.90 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.25 £24.61
Median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%

Zscaler
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Zscaler as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Zscaler trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Zscaler
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Zscaler.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Zscaler

Zscaler
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Zscaler over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Zscaler daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Zscaler
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Zscaler.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Zscaler

Zscaler
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (20.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (16.33%) AWS
4 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.16%) GCP
6 4 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.12%) SaaS
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.04%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.04%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (53.06%) Firewall
2 19 (38.78%) Network Security
3 15 (30.61%) VPN
4 11 (22.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (20.41%) Internet
6 7 (14.29%) DNS
7 6 (12.24%) SSL
8 5 (10.20%) LAN
8 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
9 4 (8.16%) BGP
9 4 (8.16%) OSPF
10 3 (6.12%) BIG-IP
10 3 (6.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (6.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (6.12%) SD-WAN
10 3 (6.12%) WAN
11 2 (4.08%) DHCP
11 2 (4.08%) VLAN
11 2 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (2.04%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.16%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) GitLab
General
1 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.04%) Polish Language
6 1 (2.04%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Security Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Network Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Architect
3 9 (18.37%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Network Security Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Lead
5 6 (12.24%) Lead Network Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior
7 4 (8.16%) Support Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Technical Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Technical Support
9 2 (4.08%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) REST
2 2 (4.08%) SAML
3 1 (2.04%) OpenID
3 1 (2.04%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.04%) BYOD
1 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.04%) CMDB
1 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.53%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Mac OS
3 3 (6.12%) Android
3 3 (6.12%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.12%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Zero Trust
2 12 (24.49%) Cloud Security
2 12 (24.49%) Incident Response
2 12 (24.49%) SIEM
3 11 (22.45%) Data Loss Prevention
3 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure Automation
4 9 (18.37%) DevOps
5 8 (16.33%) Network Architecture
6 7 (14.29%) Fintech
6 7 (14.29%) Server Hardening
7 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
7 6 (12.24%) Information Security
7 6 (12.24%) Security Operations
8 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.20%) Security Architecture
9 4 (8.16%) High Availability
9 4 (8.16%) ITIL
9 4 (8.16%) Migration
9 4 (8.16%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) Bash
3 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (24.49%) CCNP
3 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
4 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
5 6 (12.24%) Azure Certification
5 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.12%) CCIE
6 3 (6.12%) CCSE
6 3 (6.12%) JNCIE
6 3 (6.12%) JNCIP
7 2 (4.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (4.08%) CCSP
7 2 (4.08%) CISSP
8 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.04%) CISM
8 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) NIST
2 4 (8.16%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.12%) GDPR
4 2 (4.08%) GRC
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.04%) Snort
4 1 (2.04%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Terraform
2 7 (14.29%) Ansible
2 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (12.24%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.12%) QRadar
6 1 (2.04%) Istio
6 1 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.04%) linkerd
6 1 (2.04%) Nessus
6 1 (2.04%) Nexpose
6 1 (2.04%) Suricata
Vendors
1 17 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.61%) Cisco
2 15 (30.61%) Palo Alto
3 9 (18.37%) CheckPoint
4 8 (16.33%) F5
5 6 (12.24%) Darktrace
6 5 (10.20%) Okta
7 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
8 3 (6.12%) Juniper
8 3 (6.12%) Remedy
9 2 (4.08%) Citrix
9 2 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (4.08%) Google
9 2 (4.08%) Splunk
9 2 (4.08%) Varonis
9 2 (4.08%) VMware
10 1 (2.04%) Carbon Black
10 1 (2.04%) FireEye
10 1 (2.04%) ForeScout
10 1 (2.04%) Meraki