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 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 565 717
Rank change year-on-year +65 +152 -102
Contract jobs citing Zscaler 73 136 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.55% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 73 102
10th Percentile £300 £350 £413
25th Percentile £425 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £750 £606 £700
90th Percentile £775 £670 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +12.18% -1.14% +25.71%

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 18,099 24,537 34,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 42.97% 39.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 16,419 23,278
10th Percentile £263 £270 £298
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £741 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 666 888
10th Percentile £12.10 £15.23 £12.04
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.71 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.41% +97.67% -3.00%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.38 £63.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +35 52 £500 -5.88% 18
Work from Home +84 35 £450 -20.35% 8
UK excluding London +14 29 £610 +12.18% 9
London +72 22 £350 -37.22% 10
Scotland +49 8 £750 +28.48% 1
North of England +12 8 £500 -9.09% 1
Midlands +19 6 £750 +53.06% 2
West Midlands +7 6 £750 +53.06% 2
Yorkshire +18 5 £500 -
South East +15 4 £608 +73.57% 1
North West +11 3 £500 -9.09% 1
East of England +4 2 - - 4
Wales +21 1 £450 -23.40%

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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (43.84%) Azure
2 20 (27.40%) AWS
3 8 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (9.59%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.85%) Cloudflare
6 4 (5.48%) Asana
6 4 (5.48%) Slack
7 3 (4.11%) SaaS
8 2 (2.74%) GCP
8 2 (2.74%) GitHub
8 2 (2.74%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.37%) Akamai
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.37%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.37%) IaaS
9 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 30 (41.10%) Firewall
2 28 (38.36%) Network Security
3 23 (31.51%) VPN
3 23 (31.51%) WAN
4 18 (24.66%) SD-WAN
5 16 (21.92%) MPLS
6 13 (17.81%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (17.81%) DNS
7 11 (15.07%) BGP
7 11 (15.07%) DHCP
7 11 (15.07%) OSPF
8 10 (13.70%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (13.70%) Internet
8 10 (13.70%) LAN
9 9 (12.33%) NGFW
9 9 (12.33%) TCP/IP
10 8 (10.96%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (10.96%) HTTP
10 8 (10.96%) Wireless
11 6 (8.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.37%) Power BI
1 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.74%) GitLab
3 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.37%) Maven
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Finance
4 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Publishing
8 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (35.62%) Network Engineer
2 20 (27.40%) Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Security Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Analyst
4 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Architect
4 5 (6.85%) Network Architect
4 5 (6.85%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 4 (5.48%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Consultant
5 4 (5.48%) IT Support
5 4 (5.48%) Network Consultant
6 3 (4.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) IT Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Perimeter Security Consultant
6 3 (4.11%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) OpenID
1 7 (9.59%) SAML
2 5 (6.85%) Web Services
3 3 (4.11%) LDAP
4 2 (2.74%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.22%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.85%) Clustering
3 5 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.48%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.48%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.74%) Shadow IT
6 1 (1.37%) CMDB
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.37%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Windows
2 3 (4.11%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.81%) Network Architecture
2 12 (16.44%) Cloud Security
2 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.07%) Zero Trust
4 10 (13.70%) Migration
5 8 (10.96%) ITIL
6 7 (9.59%) Agile
6 7 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (9.59%) Information Security
6 7 (9.59%) Investment Management
6 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
6 7 (9.59%) Roadmaps
6 7 (9.59%) SIEM
6 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Identification
6 7 (9.59%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (8.22%) Analytics
7 6 (8.22%) Architectural Design
7 6 (8.22%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (8.22%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (8.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.07%) Python
2 1 (1.37%) C
2 1 (1.37%) Java
2 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (16.44%) CCIE
3 9 (12.33%) CCNP
4 6 (8.22%) Degree
5 5 (6.85%) CCDP
5 5 (6.85%) CCIE Data Center
6 3 (4.11%) CISSP
6 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.74%) CCNA
7 2 (2.74%) CCSP
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.37%) MCSE
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 17 (23.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) Docker
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (10.96%) Terraform
2 7 (9.59%) Ansible
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.85%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.11%) Kibana
4 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.37%) CASB
5 1 (1.37%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.37%) Observium
5 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (47.95%) Cisco
2 26 (35.62%) Palo Alto
3 14 (19.18%) CheckPoint
4 11 (15.07%) Aruba
5 10 (13.70%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (13.70%) Symantec
6 9 (12.33%) Fortinet
7 8 (10.96%) Infoblox
7 8 (10.96%) Meraki
8 7 (9.59%) Microsoft
8 7 (9.59%) Okta
9 6 (8.22%) Citrix
9 6 (8.22%) F5
9 6 (8.22%) Juniper
9 6 (8.22%) Splunk
9 6 (8.22%) Tufin
10 5 (6.85%) Arista
11 3 (4.11%) Qualys
12 2 (2.74%) McAfee
12 2 (2.74%) Proofpoint