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 17 March 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
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 100 116
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 +51
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 9 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.43% 1.11% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 2.54% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 7
10th Percentile £364 £464 £520
25th Percentile £419 £491 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% +20.93%
75th Percentile £544 £689 £725
90th Percentile £679 £759 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 930 786 1,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.91% 43.79% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 505 725
10th Percentile £354 £313 £312
25th Percentile £425 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.36 £112.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -81.83% +439.76% -1.19%
75th Percentile £33.76 - £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £157.30 £36.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £18.97
% change year-on-year -40.07% +124.10% -9.69%

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 17 March 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Cloudflare
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (11.11%) Akamai
4 1 (11.11%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) BGP
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) Internet
3 3 (33.33%) SSL
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (22.22%) IPsec
4 2 (22.22%) MPLS
4 2 (22.22%) Network Security
4 2 (22.22%) OSPF
4 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
5 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
5 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Security Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Network Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (11.11%) BYOD
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
1 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) SOAR
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (11.11%) CCSE
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
2 1 (11.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
2 2 (22.22%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
3 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Okta
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Trend Micro