Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Palo Alto
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 7 September 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
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 65 61
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.16% 0.26% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.61% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 520 327 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 40.63% 42.47% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 223 214
10th Percentile £223 £225 £254
25th Percentile £383 £332 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £588
90th Percentile £656 £650 £638
England median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.89% -4.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 24 20
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.57 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £18.51 £13.33
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.19 £15.87
Median % change year-on-year -22.93% +46.16% -20.68%
75th Percentile £25.01 £25.15 £17.37
90th Percentile £57.50 - £52.21
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £33.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -23.79% -22.35%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Palo Alto relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 September 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 2 - - 1
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared