Palo Alto Contracts 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 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 109 166
Rank change year-on-year +5 +57 +13
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 20 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.10% 0.75% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 2.39% 1.68% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 5
10th Percentile £423 £425 £440
25th Percentile £509 £441 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £681 £589 £638
90th Percentile £775 £638 £683
Central London median daily rate £536 £510 £488
% change year-on-year +5.10% +4.62% -2.50%

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 837 954 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.19% 44.66% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 695 938
10th Percentile £313 £343 £262
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £564
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -2.04% +2.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £785 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £22.35 £12.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £26.75 £15.19 £19.32
Median hourly rate £34.65 £21.75 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +59.31% -40.00% +36.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £93.11 £63.53 £53.23
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £21.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year +42.53% -13.00% -24.24%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the City of London

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 4 July 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) NGFW
2 8 (40.00%) VPN
3 7 (35.00%) DNS
3 7 (35.00%) WAN
4 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 4 (20.00%) Network Security
6 3 (15.00%) BGP
6 3 (15.00%) OSPF
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (10.00%) LAN
7 2 (10.00%) Multicast
7 2 (10.00%) VLAN
7 2 (10.00%) Wireless
8 1 (5.00%) IGMP
8 1 (5.00%) IPsec
8 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (5.00%) SSL
8 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (5.00%) Unicast
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Military
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Police
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Network Support
2 7 (35.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (15.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Kalman Filter
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Network Management
3 4 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (15.00%) Security Patching
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (10.00%) Network Design
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Time Management
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (5.00%) SOAR
6 1 (5.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CCNP
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCIE
2 1 (5.00%) CCSE
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) CASB
3 1 (5.00%) Icinga
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Nagios
3 1 (5.00%) Observium
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 7 (35.00%) Infoblox
4 4 (20.00%) Juniper
5 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (10.00%) Arista
6 2 (10.00%) F5
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.00%) Aruba
7 1 (5.00%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (5.00%) Forcepoint
7 1 (5.00%) Google
7 1 (5.00%) HP
7 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (5.00%) Meraki
7 1 (5.00%) NetScout
7 1 (5.00%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.00%) Trend Micro
7 1 (5.00%) VMware