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 30 December 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 14 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.69% - 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 9.59% - 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -63.64%
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £464 - -
East of England median daily rate £460 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -12.38% +31.25% -14.44%

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 146 148 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 38.52% 46.54% 26.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 49 31
10th Percentile £200 £313 £163
25th Percentile £358 £413 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £568
90th Percentile £659 £650 £688
East of England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 49 37
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £16.23 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +46.80% +14.62% -8.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £16.85 £15.98
90th Percentile £45.95 £21.46 £23.27
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £37.66
% change year-on-year -0.45% -46.89% +44.83%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend 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
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 30 December 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 - 10 £445 - 6
Huntingdon - 4 £363 -
Palo Alto
East of England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache
1 4 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Mimecast
2 3 (21.43%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
3 4 (28.57%) VPN
4 3 (21.43%) DHCP
5 2 (14.29%) 802.11
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (14.29%) Network Security
5 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 2 (14.29%) VLAN
5 2 (14.29%) WAN
5 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (14.29%) Wireless
6 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Security Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Switch Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Network Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (7.14%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Network Support
6 1 (7.14%) Network Support Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL
1 5 (35.71%) Security Operations
2 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Case Management
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 4 (28.57%) Cyber Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Data Enrichment
2 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 4 (28.57%) Server Building
2 4 (28.57%) SIEM
2 4 (28.57%) SOAR
2 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) CCIE
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
4 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Google
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 4 (28.57%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) Dell
3 2 (14.29%) Intel
3 2 (14.29%) Meraki
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 2 (14.29%) VMware