Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Palo Alto
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 30 September 2026, 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 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 100 102
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 +39
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 21 22 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 1.27% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 2.09% 2.58% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 17
10th Percentile £463 £416 £429
25th Percentile £475 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £756 £554 £638
90th Percentile £840 £608 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,005 854 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.45% 49.42% 43.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 581 583
10th Percentile £337 £325 £342
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £751
Central London median daily rate £538 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.79 £16.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.88 £22.13
Median hourly rate £23.16 £28.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.74% -43.00% +140.96%
75th Percentile £36.13 £60.25 £112.00
90th Percentile £54.10 £65.57 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £28.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -12.05% -32.14% +102.41%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the City of London

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the City of London

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.76%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (80.95%) Firewall
2 12 (57.14%) Network Security
3 11 (52.38%) VPN
4 9 (42.86%) WAN
5 6 (28.57%) BGP
5 6 (28.57%) OSPF
6 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
7 4 (19.05%) DHCP
7 4 (19.05%) DNS
7 4 (19.05%) MPLS
7 4 (19.05%) VLAN
7 4 (19.05%) Wireless
8 3 (14.29%) LAN
8 3 (14.29%) Multicast
8 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (9.52%) BIG-IP
9 2 (9.52%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (9.52%) IPsec
9 2 (9.52%) NGFW
9 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Firewall Support
5 1 (4.76%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Support
5 1 (4.76%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) CCTV
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Application Security
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
1 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (19.05%) Threat Analysis
1 4 (19.05%) Validation
2 3 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 3 (14.29%) OWASP
2 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
3 2 (9.52%) Agile
3 2 (9.52%) High Availability
3 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
3 2 (9.52%) Migration
3 2 (9.52%) Network Architecture
3 2 (9.52%) Network Design
3 2 (9.52%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.76%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (23.81%) CCNP
3 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) CCIE
5 2 (9.52%) CCNA
5 2 (9.52%) Degree
6 1 (4.76%) CCSP
6 1 (4.76%) CWNA
6 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Consul
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Cisco
2 7 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 6 (28.57%) F5
4 3 (14.29%) Arista
4 3 (14.29%) Juniper
4 3 (14.29%) Meraki
5 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.76%) Citrix
6 1 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (4.76%) Forcepoint
6 1 (4.76%) ForeScout
6 1 (4.76%) Google
6 1 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.76%) Tenable
6 1 (4.76%) VMware
6 1 (4.76%) Zscaler
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