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 13 January 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
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 109 113
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +55
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 12 14 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.66% 0.75% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.39% 1.72% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 9
10th Percentile £417 £465 £435
25th Percentile £438 £496 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% +20.93%
75th Percentile £513 £675 £725
90th Percentile £573 £719 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +20.93%

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 866 812 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.71% 43.24% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 494 735
10th Percentile £338 £313 £319
25th Percentile £414 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £759 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £19.98 £26.25 -
25th Percentile £20.34 £58.94 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.98% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £41.89 £131.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £44.72 £137.50 £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -77.26% +489.47% -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 13 January 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (25.00%) Mimecast
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (16.67%) IaaS
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (16.67%) PaaS
5 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (8.33%) Akamai
6 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) SSL
3 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (16.67%) Internet
4 2 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
5 1 (8.33%) BGP
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (8.33%) LAN
5 1 (8.33%) MPLS
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (8.33%) Transformation Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) WAN Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (8.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (8.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (25.00%) Information Security
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
5 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CISM
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) F5
2 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Google
4 2 (16.67%) Infoblox
5 1 (8.33%) Citrix
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle
5 1 (8.33%) Tenable
5 1 (8.33%) VMware