Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Palo Alto
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 4 October 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
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 65 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +37
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 8 2 20
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.29% 0.28% 2.39%
As % of the Vendors category 2.37% 0.53% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 19
10th Percentile £386 - -
25th Percentile £467 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +40.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £663 £550 £385
90th Percentile £708 - £388
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £500 £385
% change year-on-year +20.00% +29.87% -9.41%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 338 378 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 54.43% 52.72% 52.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 267 275
10th Percentile £216 £200 £260
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £600
90th Percentile £638 £750 £685
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £16.98 £13.33 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.42 £18.69
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.06 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.18% -30.38% +84.62%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.80 £57.50
90th Percentile £26.47 £52.75 £64.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £28.81 £23.00
% change year-on-year +4.12% +25.27% +32.49%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Palo Alto relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Birmingham

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) VPN
3 4 (50.00%) Network Security
3 4 (50.00%) SSL
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) NGFW
5 1 (12.50%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Automotive
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Military
1 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) SCADA
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCIE
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
1 5 (62.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Aruba
2 1 (12.50%) BT
2 1 (12.50%) CenturyLink
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) NetScout