Palo Alto Contracts in Cumbria

Palo Alto
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 21 August 2025, 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
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 24 15
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Palo Alto 24 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 17.39% 5.97% 13.89%
As % of the Vendors category 35.29% 24.62% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 12
10th Percentile £300 £463 -
25th Percentile £461 £483 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £588 £515 £588
90th Percentile £638 £519 £627
North West median daily rate £498 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -3.30% +14.44% +3.45%

All Vendors
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 68 65 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 49.28% 24.25% 46.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 24 36
10th Percentile £300 £276 £153
25th Percentile £416 £453 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +14.17% +5.39%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £508
90th Percentile £588 £678 £600
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 29 2
10th Percentile £26.26 - £56.77
25th Percentile £27.14 - £58.14
Median hourly rate £30.32 £10.95 £60.43
Median % change year-on-year +176.85% -81.88% +39.37%
75th Percentile £40.39 £11.32 £62.71
90th Percentile £50.98 £51.16 £64.09
North West median hourly rate £24.62 £16.06 £34.00
% change year-on-year +53.30% -52.76% +68.90%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Cumbria

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Cumbria over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Cumbria

Palo Alto
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness +13 23 £533 +3.40% 2
Palo Alto
North West

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) Firewall
2 14 (58.33%) Cisco ASA
2 14 (58.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 13 (54.17%) BGP
3 13 (54.17%) EIGRP
3 13 (54.17%) HSRP
3 13 (54.17%) IPsec
3 13 (54.17%) OSPF
4 12 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (33.33%) WAN
6 7 (29.17%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (29.17%) NetScaler
7 3 (12.50%) Wireless
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (4.17%) Cisco Wireless
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Advertising
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 14 (58.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Network Management
2 8 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 8 (33.33%) Network Design
3 7 (29.17%) Impact Assessments
3 7 (29.17%) Network Architecture
4 2 (8.33%) ITIL
4 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (4.17%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.17%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 22 (91.67%) SC Cleared
1 22 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (54.17%) CheckPoint
3 9 (37.50%) Meraki
4 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft