Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Palo Alto
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 15 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
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.43% - -
As % of the Vendors category 6.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £445 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%

All Vendors
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 110 70 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 53.92% 34.65% 28.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 24 24
10th Percentile £344 £326 £133
25th Percentile £438 £411 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £518 £465
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% +11.29% -2.11%
75th Percentile £618 £603 £506
90th Percentile £691 £638 £571
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £485 £471
% change year-on-year +8.25% +2.92% +10.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £18.18 £38.75 £15.60
25th Percentile £22.19 £51.25 £15.76
Median hourly rate £29.75 £57.50 £16.47
Median % change year-on-year -48.26% +249.17% -0.02%
75th Percentile £37.69 £72.19 £17.12
90th Percentile £41.93 £75.00 £17.24
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £18.85 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +16.14% +11.93% -6.45%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) 802.11
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (42.86%) Case Management
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Data Enrichment
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
1 3 (42.86%) SOAR
1 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) Intel
3 2 (28.57%) Meraki
3 2 (28.57%) VMware