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 8 July 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
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 105 106
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 +53
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 14 21 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.57% 1.15% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.38% 2.47% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £416 £423 £425
25th Percentile £459 £509 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +7.20% +2.56%
75th Percentile £678 £681 £589
90th Percentile £688 £775 £638
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £510
% change year-on-year +0.28% +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 1,015 850 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.62% 46.40% 44.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 527 689
10th Percentile £359 £313 £335
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% -1.78%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £787
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 8
10th Percentile - £22.53 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +92.88% -44.83%
75th Percentile £25.77 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £41.95 £89.67 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.45% +64.13% -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 8 July 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
4 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) Firewall
2 8 (57.14%) VPN
3 7 (50.00%) Network Security
4 6 (42.86%) WAN
5 5 (35.71%) SD-WAN
6 4 (28.57%) BGP
6 4 (28.57%) OSPF
7 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (21.43%) DNS
7 3 (21.43%) Internet
7 3 (21.43%) Wireless
8 2 (14.29%) DHCP
8 2 (14.29%) EIGRP
8 2 (14.29%) IPsec
8 2 (14.29%) LAN
8 2 (14.29%) MPLS
8 2 (14.29%) NGFW
8 2 (14.29%) SSL
8 2 (14.29%) VLAN
9 1 (7.14%) TACACS
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Network Security Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (7.14%) BYOD
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Change Management
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (14.29%) SIEM
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
4 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.14%) Network Management
4 1 (7.14%) Observability
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) CCNP
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCSE
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (7.14%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Consul
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) F5
3 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
4 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 2 (14.29%) Forcepoint
4 2 (14.29%) Juniper
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) 3PAR
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (7.14%) ForeScout
5 1 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro
5 1 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (7.14%) Zscaler