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 November 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 107 138
Rank change year-on-year +3 +31 +45
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 20 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.14% 0.94% 0.43%
As % of the Vendors category 2.30% 2.12% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 6
10th Percentile £415 £441 £419
25th Percentile £422 £472 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £580 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +22.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £552 £638 £634
90th Percentile £615 £684 £700
Central London median daily rate £475 £555 £475
% change year-on-year -14.41% +16.84% -13.64%

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 869 943 1,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.54% 44.42% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 594 821
10th Percentile £325 £328 £313
25th Percentile £413 £456 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £788
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 9
10th Percentile £17.75 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.08 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.42% +216.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £58.50 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -49.06% +163.16% -7.32%

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 15 November 2025.

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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.00%) Akamai
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (75.00%) Firewall
2 7 (35.00%) VPN
3 5 (25.00%) DNS
3 5 (25.00%) WAN
4 4 (20.00%) BGP
4 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.00%) LAN
5 3 (15.00%) OSPF
5 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (15.00%) SSL
6 2 (10.00%) DHCP
6 2 (10.00%) Internet
6 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (10.00%) MPLS
6 2 (10.00%) Multicast
6 2 (10.00%) Network Security
6 2 (10.00%) NGFW
6 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.00%) IGMP
7 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Network Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Subject Matter Expert
5 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Information Security
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (10.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (10.00%) Network Design
5 2 (10.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) CISM
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CISA
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) CRISC
4 1 (5.00%) CSSLP
4 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) CASB
3 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.00%) Icinga
3 1 (5.00%) Nagios
3 1 (5.00%) Observium
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (25.00%) F5
5 3 (15.00%) Infoblox
6 2 (10.00%) Arista
6 2 (10.00%) Citrix
6 2 (10.00%) Google
6 2 (10.00%) Juniper
6 2 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (10.00%) Meraki
6 2 (10.00%) Tenable
6 2 (10.00%) VMware
7 1 (5.00%) ForeScout
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle
7 1 (5.00%) Qualys
7 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.00%) Tufin