Palo Alto Contracts in the Thames Valley

Palo Alto
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 131 152
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 -27
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 33 17 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.24% 0.58% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 2.56% 1.19% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 8
10th Percentile £527 £474 £482
25th Percentile £603 £481 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £551 £608
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% -9.36% +45.66%
75th Percentile £825 £600 £702
90th Percentile £915 £605 £708
South East median daily rate £605 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +21.00% +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
South East median hourly rate £63.00 £62.00 -
% change year-on-year +1.61% - -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,287 1,426 1,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 48.17% 48.54% 44.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 983 1,057
10th Percentile £205 £300 £190
25th Percentile £363 £412 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £588
90th Percentile £688 £705 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 47 55
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £10.76
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.50 £10.77
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +276.92% -
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.21 £26.75
90th Percentile £63.13 £80.25 £63.45
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +11 20 £605 +7.56% 7
Buckinghamshire +27 12 £800 +48.15%
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 3
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) OCI
3 1 (3.03%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (90.91%) Firewall
2 15 (45.45%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (42.42%) Network Security
4 13 (39.39%) DHCP
4 13 (39.39%) DNS
4 13 (39.39%) SAN
5 12 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (18.18%) WAN
7 4 (12.12%) Wireless
8 3 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (9.09%) LAN
8 3 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
9 2 (6.06%) VoIP
10 1 (3.03%) SSL
10 1 (3.03%) VPN
General
1 17 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Organisational Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.06%) Electronics
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Network Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Analyst
4 7 (21.21%) Network Analyst
4 7 (21.21%) Network Security Analyst
4 7 (21.21%) Security Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Juniper Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Server Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Cisco Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Cisco Network Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Cisco Security Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Network Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (57.58%) Data Centre
2 6 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 3 (9.09%) CCTV
3 3 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 3 (9.09%) SCADA
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Linux
1 13 (39.39%) Windows
1 13 (39.39%) Windows 10
1 13 (39.39%) Windows Server
1 13 (39.39%) Windows Server 2012
1 13 (39.39%) Windows Server 2016
1 13 (39.39%) Windows Server 2019
1 13 (39.39%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (39.39%) Break/Fix
3 13 (39.39%) Converged Infrastructure
3 13 (39.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (39.39%) ITIL
3 13 (39.39%) Performance Monitoring
3 13 (39.39%) Proactive Monitoring
3 13 (39.39%) Project Management
3 13 (39.39%) Server Management
3 13 (39.39%) Storage Management
4 9 (27.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
5 7 (21.21%) Time Management
6 3 (9.09%) Network Design
6 3 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.06%) Data Protection
7 2 (6.06%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (87.88%) CCNP
1 29 (87.88%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (75.76%) DV Cleared
2 25 (75.76%) Security Cleared
3 17 (51.52%) CCNA
4 15 (45.45%) Degree
4 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (18.18%) CISM
6 4 (12.12%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (39.39%) Active Directory
2 13 (39.39%) Hyper-V
2 13 (39.39%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) EMC NetWorker
1 13 (39.39%) NetBackup
1 13 (39.39%) SCCM
1 13 (39.39%) SCOM
1 13 (39.39%) vCenter Server
1 13 (39.39%) WSUS
2 11 (33.33%) Nessus
3 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 32 (96.97%) Cisco
2 25 (75.76%) Juniper
3 16 (48.48%) VMware
4 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
5 13 (39.39%) 3PAR
5 13 (39.39%) Dell
5 13 (39.39%) EMC
5 13 (39.39%) Extreme Networks
5 13 (39.39%) HP
5 13 (39.39%) Oracle
5 13 (39.39%) Symantec
5 13 (39.39%) Veeam
6 12 (36.36%) ScienceLogic
7 3 (9.09%) CheckPoint
8 2 (6.06%) SAP
9 1 (3.03%) Fortinet