Palo Alto Contracts in the City of London

Palo Alto
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Palo Alto over the 6 months to 25 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 Palo Alto Networks.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 160 164
Rank change year-on-year +42 +4 -25
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 11 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.33% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% 0.84% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 21
10th Percentile - £416 £400
25th Percentile £575 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £725 £606 £538
90th Percentile - £668 -
Central London median daily rate £625 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +28.21% -2.50% -11.11%

All Vendors
City of London

Palo Alto 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 advertised in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 955 1,426 1,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.98% 39.11% 36.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 936 1,178
10th Percentile £313 £263 £347
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.27 -
25th Percentile £13.56 £18.42 £13.88
Median hourly rate £19.75 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - +33.02%
75th Percentile £23.75 £36.97 £44.50
90th Percentile £25.38 £53.15 £50.75
Central London median hourly rate £18.93 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.86% - +12.00%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the City of London

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the City of London

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (9.09%) IIS
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) WAN
1 5 (45.45%) Wireless
2 4 (36.36%) LAN
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) BGP
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (27.27%) IPsec
3 3 (27.27%) OSPF
3 3 (27.27%) WLAN
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
4 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
5 1 (9.09%) NAS
5 1 (9.09%) SAN
5 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) SOC Architect
1 5 (45.45%) SOC Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Presales Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Presales Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
1 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
1 5 (45.45%) SOAR
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Business Development
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Presales
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCIE
1 1 (9.09%) CCNP
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) CSIRT
2 3 (27.27%) FortiGate
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Juniper
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Aruba
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) ProCurve
4 1 (9.09%) Riverbed
4 1 (9.09%) Synology
4 1 (9.09%) Veeam
4 1 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Zerto