Palo Alto Contracts in Berkshire

Palo Alto
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 104 109
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 9 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.77% 1.01% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 1.46% 2.06% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £603 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £563
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +7.56% -13.19%
75th Percentile - £608 £581
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 £605 £500
% change year-on-year -21.49% +21.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.95
25th Percentile - - £65.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.44
90th Percentile - - £80.78
South East median hourly rate - £63.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +1.61% -

All Vendors
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 616 971 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.51% 48.94% 51.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 559 595
10th Percentile £350 £211 £350
25th Percentile £450 £359 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £644
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 46 36
10th Percentile £18.92 £17.30 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £51.66 £31.31
Median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £71.25
90th Percentile £84.09 £64.15 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Berkshire

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Berkshire

Palo Alto
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +21 7 £450 -25.62% 8
Bracknell - 2 - - 1
Palo Alto
South East

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Network Security
2 7 (77.78%) Firewall
3 6 (66.67%) BGP
3 6 (66.67%) OSPF
3 6 (66.67%) VPN
4 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
4 5 (55.56%) VLAN
5 2 (22.22%) LAN
5 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
5 2 (22.22%) SSL
5 2 (22.22%) WAN
6 1 (11.11%) DNS
6 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
6 1 (11.11%) Internet
6 1 (11.11%) IPsec
6 1 (11.11%) MPLS
6 1 (11.11%) NGFW
6 1 (11.11%) TACACS
6 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) SIEM
2 5 (55.56%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (44.44%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
4 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Business Case
5 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CCNP
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (44.44%) CCSA
2 4 (44.44%) CCSE
2 4 (44.44%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
2 1 (11.11%) QRadar
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
3 2 (22.22%) Aruba
3 2 (22.22%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Zscaler