Palo Alto Contracts in Berkshire

Palo Alto
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 107 114
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -22
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 20 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.01% 0.33% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 2.04% 0.64% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 7
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile £603 £544 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £563 £648
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% -13.19% +58.53%
75th Percentile £608 £581 £704
90th Percentile - - £708
South East median daily rate £605 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +21.00% +5.26% +11.76%
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
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 978 936 1,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 49.32% 51.66% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 596 668
10th Percentile £213 £350 £200
25th Percentile £361 £431 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £646 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 37 11
10th Percentile £17.42 £18.50 £25.50
25th Percentile £37.81 £27.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +17.50% +117.39%
75th Percentile £61.60 £70.00 £73.95
90th Percentile £63.80 £80.25 £82.75
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 Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Berkshire

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Berkshire

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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 26 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
Reading +10 17 £605 - 5
Maidenhead - 3 - -
Palo Alto
South East

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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 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (95.00%) Firewall
2 13 (65.00%) DHCP
2 13 (65.00%) DNS
2 13 (65.00%) SAN
3 5 (25.00%) WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (15.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (15.00%) Wireless
5 2 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (10.00%) VoIP
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security
6 1 (5.00%) SSL
General
1 17 (85.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Server Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (95.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) CCTV
2 3 (15.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (15.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Linux
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
1 13 (65.00%) Windows 10
1 13 (65.00%) Windows Server
1 13 (65.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 13 (65.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 13 (65.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 13 (65.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (65.00%) Break/Fix
3 13 (65.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 13 (65.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (65.00%) ITIL
3 13 (65.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 13 (65.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 13 (65.00%) Project Management
3 13 (65.00%) Server Management
3 13 (65.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (15.00%) Network Design
4 3 (15.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.00%) Information Security
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (80.00%) CCNA
1 16 (80.00%) CCNP
1 16 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (70.00%) Degree
3 13 (65.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (65.00%) Hyper-V
2 13 (65.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (15.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 13 (65.00%) NetBackup
1 13 (65.00%) SCCM
1 13 (65.00%) SCOM
1 13 (65.00%) vCenter Server
1 13 (65.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) Cisco
2 16 (80.00%) VMware
3 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (65.00%) 3PAR
4 13 (65.00%) Dell
4 13 (65.00%) EMC
4 13 (65.00%) Extreme Networks
4 13 (65.00%) HP
4 13 (65.00%) Juniper
4 13 (65.00%) Oracle
4 13 (65.00%) Symantec
4 13 (65.00%) Veeam
5 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint