Palo Alto Contracts in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 118 162
Rank change year-on-year +24 +44 -59
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 15 23 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.95% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.76% 1.92% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 7
10th Percentile £500 £288 £250
25th Percentile £575 £331 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +12.50% +1.59%
75th Percentile £775 £663 £456
90th Percentile £978 £700 £495
England median daily rate £520 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +4.50% +17.65%

All Vendors
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 851 1,195 1,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.09% 49.54% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 755 1,072
10th Percentile £255 £207 £198
25th Percentile £350 £370 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% +13.41%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 30 39
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.23 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £19.60 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +15.31% -5.56%
75th Percentile £28.75 £52.06 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £69.15 £23.85
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -4.55%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire +7 6 £750 +76.47%
Birmingham +6 4 £800 +68.42% 2
Coventry +14 3 £500 -1.23% 1
Staffordshire +6 1 - -
Worcestershire +5 1 - - 1
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (13.33%) IIS
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (13.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) Firewall
2 10 (66.67%) VPN
3 8 (53.33%) DNS
4 6 (40.00%) Network Security
4 6 (40.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (40.00%) WAN
5 5 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (33.33%) DHCP
5 5 (33.33%) Internet
5 5 (33.33%) LAN
5 5 (33.33%) MPLS
5 5 (33.33%) PBX
5 5 (33.33%) VoIP
5 5 (33.33%) WLAN
6 3 (20.00%) BGP
6 3 (20.00%) OSPF
7 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
7 2 (13.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) LAMP
2 2 (13.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
1 2 (13.33%) VMS
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
1 7 (46.67%) Network Architecture
2 6 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 5 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 5 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 5 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 5 (33.33%) SOA
3 5 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 5 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
4 4 (26.67%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (13.33%) Offensive Security
5 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) CCIE
3 5 (33.33%) CCIE Data Center
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) CCNP
5 2 (13.33%) BC Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) CASP
5 2 (13.33%) CCNA
5 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (13.33%) GCED
5 2 (13.33%) GIAC
5 2 (13.33%) GSEC
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 5 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 5 (33.33%) Symantec
3 5 (33.33%) Zscaler
4 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (13.33%) Aruba
5 2 (13.33%) Citrix
5 2 (13.33%) F5
5 2 (13.33%) LogRhythm
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) ProCurve
5 2 (13.33%) Synology
5 2 (13.33%) TippingPoint
5 2 (13.33%) Trend Micro
5 2 (13.33%) Veeam
5 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 2 (13.33%) Zerto
6 1 (6.67%) Juniper