Palo Alto Contracts in Barrow-in-Furness

Palo Alto
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring knowledge or experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Palo Alto over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Palo Alto 20 12 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 17.86% 6.56% 31.03%
As % of the Vendors category 35.09% 37.50% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £300 £454 -
25th Percentile £509 £504 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -8.44% -
75th Percentile £588 - £607
90th Percentile £638 £520 £627
Cumbria median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -

All Vendors
Barrow-in-Furness

Palo Alto falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Barrow-in-Furness.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 57 32 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 50.89% 17.49% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 20
10th Percentile £404 £422 -
25th Percentile £439 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £515 £544
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -5.33% +27.40%
75th Percentile £541 £625 £606
90th Percentile £600 £707 £627
Cumbria median daily rate £450 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% +5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £26.26 - -
25th Percentile £27.14 £10.95 -
Median hourly rate £30.32 £31.57 £55.85
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% -43.47% +28.82%
75th Percentile £40.39 £55.79 -
90th Percentile £50.98 £68.19 -
Cumbria median hourly rate £31.36 £10.95 £60.43
% change year-on-year +186.39% -81.88% +39.37%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Barrow-in-Furness

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Barrow-in-Furness

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Barrow-in-Furness over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Barrow-in-Furness

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness 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:

Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 12 (60.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 11 (55.00%) BGP
3 11 (55.00%) EIGRP
3 11 (55.00%) HSRP
3 11 (55.00%) IPsec
3 11 (55.00%) OSPF
4 10 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (30.00%) WAN
6 5 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (25.00%) NetScaler
7 3 (15.00%) Wireless
8 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Advertising
2 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Network Management
2 6 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (30.00%) Network Architecture
2 6 (30.00%) Network Design
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco
2 11 (55.00%) CheckPoint
3 7 (35.00%) Meraki
4 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds