Palo Alto Contract Job Trends 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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 88 112
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +10
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 24 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% 1.43% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 1.05% 2.79% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% - -
South East median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% -4.76%

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 665 861 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.38% 51.13% 51.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 468 571
10th Percentile £300 £321 £248
25th Percentile £420 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +7.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £633
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 29
10th Percentile £14.44 £15.30 £18.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £27.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £19.81 £58.49 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.13% -0.44% -4.47%
75th Percentile £32.12 £61.60 £66.44
90th Percentile £39.98 £75.17 £72.91
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £51.96
% change year-on-year -67.10% +10.37% +159.80%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Palo Alto.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
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 16 September 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 +8 6 £450 -25.62%
Bracknell - 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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Network Security
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
2 6 (85.71%) VLAN
2 6 (85.71%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) IPFIX
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 6 (85.71%) Proactive Monitoring
2 6 (85.71%) Security Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CCNP
1 6 (85.71%) CCSA
1 6 (85.71%) CCSE
1 6 (85.71%) Check Point Certification
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk