Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Palo Alto
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bradford 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 7 July 2026, 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
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 3.36% - -
As % of the Vendors category 7.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £275 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £28.00 - -

All Vendors
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 51 16 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 42.86% 34.78% 68.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 24
10th Percentile £283 £444 £189
25th Percentile £413 £466 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £595 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +36.00% -20.45%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £489
90th Percentile £673 £677 £669
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £26.77 - -
25th Percentile £28.00 - -
Median hourly rate £35.25 - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.13 £77.50 £14.63
% change year-on-year -66.28% +429.91% -23.03%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Bradford

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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 2 (50.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) Broadband
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
4 1 (25.00%) VoIP
4 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CEH
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) GIAC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) ForeScout
3 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds