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 14 October 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
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 104 110
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +26
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 20 21 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 1.22% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 1.98% 2.41% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 17
10th Percentile £466 £416 £429
25th Percentile £483 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +43.16% -9.52% +13.51%
75th Percentile £766 £554 £638
90th Percentile £843 £610 -
Central London median daily rate £680 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +39.49% -7.14% +16.67%
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 1,012 870 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.72% 50.35% 43.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 608 585
10th Percentile £325 £325 £344
25th Percentile £443 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.11 £18.90
25th Percentile £19.31 £20.63 £27.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £26.33 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% -54.22% +64.29%
75th Percentile £38.69 £50.13 £112.00
90th Percentile £55.95 £63.93 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £26.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -0.74% -38.06% +21.43%

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 14 October 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) Firewall
2 13 (65.00%) Network Security
3 12 (60.00%) VPN
4 9 (45.00%) WAN
5 6 (30.00%) BGP
5 6 (30.00%) OSPF
6 5 (25.00%) DNS
6 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 4 (20.00%) DHCP
7 4 (20.00%) MPLS
7 4 (20.00%) VLAN
7 4 (20.00%) Wireless
8 3 (15.00%) LAN
8 3 (15.00%) Multicast
8 3 (15.00%) NGFW
8 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (10.00%) BIG-IP
9 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (10.00%) IPsec
9 2 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Network Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Design Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Support
5 1 (5.00%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) CCTV
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (20.00%) Validation
1 4 (20.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (15.00%) Application Security
2 3 (15.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (15.00%) Network Segmentation
2 3 (15.00%) OWASP
2 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (15.00%) Threat Analysis
2 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (10.00%) High Availability
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
3 2 (10.00%) Network Design
3 2 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (30.00%) CCNP
3 4 (20.00%) CCIE
4 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) CCNA
5 2 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) CCIE Security
6 1 (5.00%) CCSP
6 1 (5.00%) CISSP
6 1 (5.00%) CWNA
6 1 (5.00%) PMP
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Cisco
2 7 (35.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (30.00%) F5
4 3 (15.00%) Arista
4 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (15.00%) Juniper
4 3 (15.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (5.00%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.00%) ForeScout
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Tenable
5 1 (5.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler