Palo Alto Contracts in Central London

Palo Alto
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 121 162
Rank change year-on-year +21 +41 0
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 24 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.20% 0.57% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 2.67% 1.35% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 8
10th Percentile £428 £492 £379
25th Percentile £475 £575 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £591
90th Percentile £745 - £660
London median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.57% -4.55% +10.00%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 899 1,038 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 44.99% 42.52% 39.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 764 1,017
10th Percentile £309 £303 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £752 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £549 £563
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £26.45 £12.75 £19.14
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.38 £20.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.75 £31.94
90th Percentile £100.00 £25.05 £53.05
London median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £30.63
% change year-on-year +21.85% -22.29% -12.50%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Central London

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Central London

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Central London

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
City of London +17 20 £536 -17.54% 7
Palo Alto
London

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (87.50%) Firewall
2 10 (41.67%) DNS
2 10 (41.67%) VPN
3 8 (33.33%) NGFW
4 6 (25.00%) WAN
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 3 (12.50%) BGP
6 3 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (12.50%) DHCP
6 3 (12.50%) Network Security
6 3 (12.50%) Wireless
7 2 (8.33%) LAN
7 2 (8.33%) Multicast
7 2 (8.33%) VLAN
7 2 (8.33%) VXLAN
8 1 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Military
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Police
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Network Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Network Support
2 7 (29.17%) Network Support Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Support Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Network Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
6 2 (8.33%) Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Network Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) ADO
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Anti-Spyware
2 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Migration
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (12.50%) Network Design
3 3 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (8.33%) Network Management
4 2 (8.33%) Security Patching
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (8.33%) Zero Trust
5 1 (4.17%) High Availability
5 1 (4.17%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.17%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Bicep
1 1 (4.17%) Python
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) CCNP
1 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) CCSE
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) JNCIP
3 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) CASB
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) OPNET
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) CheckPoint
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco
2 8 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 5 (20.83%) Juniper
4 3 (12.50%) F5
4 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 3 (12.50%) Meraki
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.17%) 3PAR
6 1 (4.17%) Aruba
6 1 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) HP
6 1 (4.17%) NetScout
6 1 (4.17%) Ruckus Wireless
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.17%) Trend Micro
6 1 (4.17%) Veeam
6 1 (4.17%) VMware