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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 96 105
Rank change year-on-year -26 +9 +46
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 16 27 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.68% 1.46% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.60% 3.02% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 11
10th Percentile £453 £415 £425
25th Percentile £500 £453 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +7.20% -10.11%
75th Percentile £688 £606 £595
90th Percentile £729 £769 £638
Central London median daily rate £550 £536 £510
% change year-on-year +2.61% +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 1,000 893 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.74% 48.22% 44.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 579 634
10th Percentile £357 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £757
Central London median daily rate £540 £543 £538
% change year-on-year -0.46% +0.84% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 11
10th Percentile - £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.83 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.02% +21.57% +20.00%
75th Percentile £28.57 £62.00 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £65.03 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.33% +7.67% +20.00%

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 19 August 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 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
4 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) Network Security
2 8 (50.00%) VPN
3 7 (43.75%) WAN
4 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
5 4 (25.00%) BGP
5 4 (25.00%) OSPF
5 4 (25.00%) Wireless
6 3 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (18.75%) DHCP
6 3 (18.75%) DNS
6 3 (18.75%) Internet
6 3 (18.75%) LAN
6 3 (18.75%) VLAN
7 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
7 2 (12.50%) Multicast
7 2 (12.50%) NGFW
7 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (6.25%) IPsec
8 1 (6.25%) TACACS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
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 11 (68.75%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.25%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) BYOD
2 1 (6.25%) CCTV
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 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%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) High Availability
4 1 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.25%) Low Latency
4 1 (6.25%) Network Management
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM
4 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (6.25%) Threat Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (31.25%) CCNP
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) Degree
5 2 (12.50%) CCIE
6 1 (6.25%) CCNA
6 1 (6.25%) CCSE
6 1 (6.25%) CWNA
6 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GRC
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Consul
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
2 6 (37.50%) F5
3 5 (31.25%) Fortinet
4 4 (25.00%) Juniper
5 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
6 2 (12.50%) Arista
6 2 (12.50%) Forcepoint
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 1 (6.25%) 3PAR
7 1 (6.25%) Citrix
7 1 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (6.25%) ForeScout
7 1 (6.25%) Google
7 1 (6.25%) HP
7 1 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (6.25%) Meraki
7 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (6.25%) Trend Micro
7 1 (6.25%) VMware
7 1 (6.25%) Zscaler