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 28 June 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
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 117 165
Rank change year-on-year +18 +48 +6
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 26 22 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.34% 0.92% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 2.92% 2.09% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 6
10th Percentile £420 £425 £356
25th Percentile £509 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £518 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +6.15% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £602
90th Percentile £770 £673 £675
London median daily rate £500 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -4.76% -16.00% +25.00%

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 891 1,051 1,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 45.83% 44.09% 40.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 770 997
10th Percentile £305 £336 £225
25th Percentile £422 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £751 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 9
10th Percentile £23.05 £12.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.75 £16.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £31.00 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £79.34 £51.35 £53.15
London median hourly rate £28.50 £23.80 £29.38
% change year-on-year +19.75% -18.98% -16.07%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +9 21 £536 +4.59% 36
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 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) Firewall
2 10 (38.46%) VPN
3 9 (34.62%) NGFW
3 9 (34.62%) WAN
4 8 (30.77%) DNS
5 6 (23.08%) BGP
6 5 (19.23%) Multicast
6 5 (19.23%) Network Security
6 5 (19.23%) SD-WAN
7 4 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (15.38%) OSPF
8 3 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (11.54%) LAN
8 3 (11.54%) VXLAN
9 2 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (7.69%) IGMP
9 2 (7.69%) VLAN
9 2 (7.69%) Wireless
10 1 (3.85%) IPsec
10 1 (3.85%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Military
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Police
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Network Support
2 7 (26.92%) Network Support Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Support Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Active Directory Support
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (15.38%) Network Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Security Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Consultant
6 2 (7.69%) Senior
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) ADO
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (34.62%) Migration
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (15.38%) Network Management
3 4 (15.38%) Patch Management
4 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
4 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Low Latency
4 3 (11.54%) Security Patching
5 2 (7.69%) Change Management
5 2 (7.69%) DevSecOps
5 2 (7.69%) High Availability
5 2 (7.69%) Network Design
5 2 (7.69%) Time Management
5 2 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Python
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) CCNP
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CCIE
3 1 (3.85%) CCSE
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) JNCIP
3 1 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) CASB
3 1 (3.85%) Icinga
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Nagios
3 1 (3.85%) Observium
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Cisco
2 12 (46.15%) CheckPoint
3 7 (26.92%) Infoblox
4 5 (19.23%) Fortinet
5 4 (15.38%) Juniper
6 3 (11.54%) Arista
6 3 (11.54%) F5
6 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
7 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.85%) 3PAR
8 1 (3.85%) Aruba
8 1 (3.85%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (3.85%) Forcepoint
8 1 (3.85%) Google
8 1 (3.85%) HP
8 1 (3.85%) Meraki
8 1 (3.85%) NetScout
8 1 (3.85%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro
8 1 (3.85%) VMware