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 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 93 112 140
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 +44
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 23 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.31% 0.77% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 2.69% 1.75% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 6
10th Percentile £410 £426 £419
25th Percentile £423 £445 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £554 £638 £666
90th Percentile £685 - £694
Central London median daily rate £536 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +5.10% +7.37% -5.00%

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 855 912 1,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.83% 43.91% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 593 887
10th Percentile £321 £350 £309
25th Percentile £413 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £551 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -1.61% +1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £750 £766 £800
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 7
10th Percentile £20.23 £16.00 £14.87
25th Percentile £23.75 £19.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% +20.00% -14.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £65.21 £137.50 £62.80
Central London median hourly rate £31.58 £27.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.94% +20.00% -14.84%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto 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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the City of London

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
3 4 (17.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (78.26%) Firewall
2 9 (39.13%) VPN
3 7 (30.43%) DNS
3 7 (30.43%) WAN
4 5 (21.74%) NGFW
4 5 (21.74%) SD-WAN
5 3 (13.04%) BGP
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) Network Security
5 3 (13.04%) OSPF
5 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.70%) Multicast
6 2 (8.70%) SSL
6 2 (8.70%) VLAN
6 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.35%) DHCP
7 1 (4.35%) IGMP
7 1 (4.35%) MPLS
7 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Network Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Active Directory Support
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (17.39%) Network Support
3 4 (17.39%) Network Support Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Network Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Management Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Anti-Spyware
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) SCADA
3 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (26.09%) Migration
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (17.39%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (17.39%) Network Management
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
5 3 (13.04%) Security Patching
5 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (8.70%) High Availability
6 2 (8.70%) Information Security
6 2 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (8.70%) Low Latency
6 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) SIEM
7 1 (4.35%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) CCNP
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CCIE
3 1 (4.35%) CCNA
3 1 (4.35%) CISA
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) CRISC
3 1 (4.35%) CSSLP
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.35%) Icinga
4 1 (4.35%) Nagios
4 1 (4.35%) Observium
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Cisco
2 8 (34.78%) CheckPoint
3 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (21.74%) Infoblox
5 4 (17.39%) F5
5 4 (17.39%) Fortinet
6 3 (13.04%) Google
6 3 (13.04%) VMware
7 2 (8.70%) Arista
7 2 (8.70%) Citrix
7 2 (8.70%) Juniper
7 2 (8.70%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (8.70%) Meraki
7 2 (8.70%) Tenable
8 1 (4.35%) AlgoSec
8 1 (4.35%) ForeScout
8 1 (4.35%) Qualys
8 1 (4.35%) Rapid7
8 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (4.35%) Tufin