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 22 July 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 104 118
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 16 24 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.66% 1.29% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.59% 2.74% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £424 £414 £423
25th Percentile £472 £433 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +7.20% +2.56%
75th Percentile £684 £589 £549
90th Percentile £723 £771 £626
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £510
% change year-on-year +0.28% +5.10% +4.62%
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 1,004 875 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.64% 47.02% 44.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 550 677
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £667 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £752 £775
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £19.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +42.87% -25.52%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £21.75 £32.83 £34.25
% change year-on-year -33.74% -4.16% +37.00%

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 22 July 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 9 (56.25%) VPN
3 8 (50.00%) Network Security
4 7 (43.75%) WAN
5 5 (31.25%) BGP
5 5 (31.25%) OSPF
5 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
6 4 (25.00%) DNS
6 4 (25.00%) Wireless
7 3 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (18.75%) DHCP
7 3 (18.75%) Internet
7 3 (18.75%) LAN
7 3 (18.75%) VLAN
8 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
8 2 (12.50%) IPsec
8 2 (12.50%) MPLS
8 2 (12.50%) NGFW
8 2 (12.50%) SSL
8 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.25%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (6.25%) BYOD
3 1 (6.25%) CCTV
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.25%) Network Management
4 1 (6.25%) Presales
4 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (6.25%) Threat Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) Use Case
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) CCNP
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CCIE
4 1 (6.25%) CCNA
4 1 (6.25%) CCSE
4 1 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) CWNA
4 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GRC
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Consul
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) F5
3 4 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (18.75%) Juniper
5 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 2 (12.50%) Forcepoint
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.25%) 3PAR
6 1 (6.25%) Arista
6 1 (6.25%) Citrix
6 1 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (6.25%) ForeScout
6 1 (6.25%) Google
6 1 (6.25%) HP
6 1 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (6.25%) Meraki
6 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (6.25%) Splunk
6 1 (6.25%) Trend Micro
6 1 (6.25%) VMware