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 2 September 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
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 95 112
Rank change year-on-year -27 +17 +45
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 18 26 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.79% 1.46% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.82% 2.99% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 12
10th Percentile £466 £410 £426
25th Percentile £508 £423 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile £726 £554 £638
90th Percentile £810 £685 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £518 £514
% change year-on-year +25.48% +0.83% -6.59%
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 987 871 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.31% 48.82% 44.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 570 614
10th Percentile £350 £315 £343
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.45%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £757
Central London median daily rate £539 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.51% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

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 2 September 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) Firewall
2 10 (55.56%) Network Security
2 10 (55.56%) VPN
3 9 (50.00%) WAN
4 6 (33.33%) SD-WAN
5 5 (27.78%) BGP
5 5 (27.78%) OSPF
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (16.67%) DHCP
6 3 (16.67%) DNS
6 3 (16.67%) Internet
6 3 (16.67%) LAN
6 3 (16.67%) MPLS
6 3 (16.67%) Multicast
6 3 (16.67%) VLAN
6 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (16.67%) Wireless
7 2 (11.11%) NGFW
8 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Security Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Design Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) CCTV
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
2 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.11%) Agile
3 2 (11.11%) Application Security
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Network Design
3 2 (11.11%) Threat Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Validation
3 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
4 1 (5.56%) Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Build Automation
4 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (5.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (5.56%) Network Management
4 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (22.22%) CCNP
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CCIE
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CWNA
4 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Consul
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) F5
3 6 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (16.67%) Arista
4 3 (16.67%) Juniper
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.11%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) Citrix
6 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
6 1 (5.56%) ForeScout
6 1 (5.56%) Google
6 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.56%) Tenable
6 1 (5.56%) VMware
6 1 (5.56%) Zscaler
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