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 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 575 720
Rank change year-on-year +64 +145 -118
Contract jobs citing Zscaler 71 137 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.53% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 77 98
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 £650
90th Percentile £775 £650 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £505 £536
% change year-on-year +3.96% -5.70% +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 18,615 25,769 35,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 42.83% 39.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 17,259 23,541
10th Percentile £260 £270 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £649 £630
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 1,097 711 897
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.03 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.58% +107.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £39.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -44.97% +108.56% -0.70%

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 24 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 24 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 +62 51 £475 -9.52% 18
Work from Home +80 33 £450 -18.18% 6
UK excluding London +19 26 £525 +3.96% 7
London +73 21 £350 -37.22% 14
North of England +30 7 £488 -7.14% 1
Midlands +24 6 £750 +48.51% 1
West Midlands +19 6 £750 +48.51% 1
Scotland +31 5 £450 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire +25 5 £500 -
South East +9 4 £608 +59.34% 1
Wales +14 2 £463 -21.28%
North West +9 2 £425 -22.73% 1
East of England +7 2 - - 2

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 (2.82%) Confluence
1 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) Azure
2 20 (28.17%) AWS
3 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.04%) Asana
4 5 (7.04%) Cloudflare
4 5 (7.04%) Slack
5 4 (5.63%) SaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.82%) GCP
7 2 (2.82%) GitHub
7 2 (2.82%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.41%) Akamai
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.41%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (45.07%) Firewall
2 29 (40.85%) Network Security
3 25 (35.21%) VPN
4 24 (33.80%) WAN
5 19 (26.76%) SD-WAN
6 16 (22.54%) MPLS
7 13 (18.31%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (18.31%) DNS
8 12 (16.90%) BGP
8 12 (16.90%) OSPF
9 11 (15.49%) Cisco ISE
9 11 (15.49%) DHCP
9 11 (15.49%) LAN
10 10 (14.08%) Internet
10 10 (14.08%) NGFW
10 10 (14.08%) TCP/IP
11 9 (12.68%) Wireless
12 8 (11.27%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (11.27%) HTTP
13 7 (9.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.41%) Power BI
1 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) JIRA
2 5 (7.04%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.82%) GitLab
3 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.41%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.41%) Maven
General
1 21 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.82%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Publishing
8 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (38.03%) Network Engineer
2 15 (21.13%) Architect
3 8 (11.27%) Security Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Analyst
4 6 (8.45%) Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (7.04%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (7.04%) IT Support
5 5 (7.04%) Network Architect
5 5 (7.04%) Network Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Network Security Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Perimeter Security Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Security Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) Web Services
2 3 (4.23%) LDAP
2 3 (4.23%) OpenID
2 3 (4.23%) SAML
3 1 (1.41%) OAuth
3 1 (1.41%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.45%) Public Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Clustering
3 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.04%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.82%) CMDB
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Shadow IT
6 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Windows
2 3 (4.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.31%) Network Architecture
2 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (14.08%) Cloud Security
3 10 (14.08%) Zero Trust
4 8 (11.27%) Agile
4 8 (11.27%) Investment Management
4 8 (11.27%) ITIL
4 8 (11.27%) Migration
4 8 (11.27%) Project Delivery
5 7 (9.86%) Data Loss Prevention
5 7 (9.86%) Roadmaps
5 7 (9.86%) SIEM
5 7 (9.86%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (8.45%) Architectural Design
6 6 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (8.45%) High Availability
6 6 (8.45%) Information Security
6 6 (8.45%) Programme Management
6 6 (8.45%) Resource Management
7 5 (7.04%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) Python
2 1 (1.41%) C
2 1 (1.41%) Java
2 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (16.90%) CCIE
3 9 (12.68%) CCNP
4 5 (7.04%) CCDP
4 5 (7.04%) CCIE Data Center
5 3 (4.23%) Degree
6 2 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CCNA
6 2 (2.82%) CCSP
6 2 (2.82%) CISSP
6 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) MCSE
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 14 (19.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Terraform
2 7 (9.86%) Ansible
3 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.23%) Kibana
4 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.82%) Observium
6 1 (1.41%) CASB
6 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (53.52%) Cisco
2 30 (42.25%) Palo Alto
3 16 (22.54%) CheckPoint
4 11 (15.49%) Aruba
5 9 (12.68%) Symantec
6 8 (11.27%) Fortinet
6 8 (11.27%) Infoblox
6 8 (11.27%) Meraki
7 6 (8.45%) Citrix
7 6 (8.45%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (8.45%) F5
7 6 (8.45%) Juniper
7 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
7 6 (8.45%) Splunk
7 6 (8.45%) Tufin
8 5 (7.04%) Arista
9 3 (4.23%) Okta
9 3 (4.23%) Qualys
10 2 (2.82%) McAfee
10 2 (2.82%) SolarWinds