Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Palo Alto
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.03% - 1.49%
As % of the Vendors category 4.14% - 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £398 - £373
25th Percentile £427 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £528 - £588
90th Percentile £672 - £613
East of England median daily rate £700 £550 £535
% change year-on-year +27.27% +2.80% -2.73%

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 169 180 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 48.99% 41.76% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 25 59
10th Percentile £295 £330 £196
25th Percentile £428 £406 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £509
90th Percentile £700 £703 £590
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 118 28
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £34.19 £16.85 £19.34
90th Percentile £51.88 £21.37 £25.43
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £16.23 £38.40
% change year-on-year +39.43% -57.73% +82.86%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Cambridgeshire

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Cambridgeshire

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Cambridge - 5 £445 -
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 1
Palo Alto
East of England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) 802.11
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
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%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (28.57%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
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%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Meraki
4 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds