Palo Alto Contracts in the Midlands

Palo Alto
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 5 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 Palo Alto Networks.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 134 181
Rank change year-on-year +17 +47 -51
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 17 29 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.62% 0.85% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 1.69% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 7
10th Percentile £343 £295 £291
25th Percentile £444 £359 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +45.95% +8.82% +3.03%
75th Percentile £775 £621 £500
90th Percentile £933 £700 £527
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,189 1,721 2,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 43.49% 50.29% 42.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 1,156 1,472
10th Percentile £213 £206 £185
25th Percentile £338 £350 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £700 £681 £645
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 58 83
10th Percentile £10.92 £13.13 £9.62
25th Percentile £12.75 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £15.61 £20.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +18.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £26.50 £37.69 £22.13
90th Percentile £43.70 £65.30 £34.30
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% +83.33% -

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
West Midlands +14 14 £750 +66.67% 6
East Midlands +14 3 £325 -53.57%
Palo Alto
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) Firewall
2 11 (64.71%) VPN
3 10 (58.82%) DNS
4 7 (41.18%) DHCP
5 6 (35.29%) SD-WAN
5 6 (35.29%) WAN
6 5 (29.41%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (29.41%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (29.41%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (29.41%) Internet
6 5 (29.41%) LAN
6 5 (29.41%) MPLS
6 5 (29.41%) Network Security
6 5 (29.41%) PBX
6 5 (29.41%) VoIP
6 5 (29.41%) WLAN
7 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
8 3 (17.65%) BGP
8 3 (17.65%) OSPF
8 3 (17.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Architect
3 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) LAMP
2 2 (11.76%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
1 2 (11.76%) VMS
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
1 7 (41.18%) Network Architecture
2 6 (35.29%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (29.41%) Analytics
3 5 (29.41%) Architectural Design
3 5 (29.41%) Data Analytics
3 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Management
3 5 (29.41%) Programme Management
3 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
3 5 (29.41%) Resource Management
3 5 (29.41%) SOA
3 5 (29.41%) Storage Management
3 5 (29.41%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
5 2 (11.76%) Change Control
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (29.41%) CCIE
2 5 (29.41%) CCIE Data Center
2 5 (29.41%) CCNP
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) CCNA
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) BC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) CASP
4 2 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (11.76%) GCED
4 2 (11.76%) GIAC
4 2 (11.76%) GSEC
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Cisco
2 6 (35.29%) CheckPoint
3 5 (29.41%) Infoblox
3 5 (29.41%) Symantec
3 5 (29.41%) Zscaler
4 4 (23.53%) Fortinet
5 2 (11.76%) Aruba
5 2 (11.76%) Citrix
5 2 (11.76%) LogRhythm
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) ProCurve
5 2 (11.76%) Synology
5 2 (11.76%) TippingPoint
5 2 (11.76%) Trend Micro
5 2 (11.76%) Veeam
5 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 2 (11.76%) Zerto
6 1 (5.88%) F5
6 1 (5.88%) Juniper