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 5 November 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 49 59
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 +36
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 2 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 1.50% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 3.50% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £484
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.59%
75th Percentile - - £490
90th Percentile - - £492
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%

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 390 314 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 45.61% 42.90% 50.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 190 277
10th Percentile £188 £263 £213
25th Percentile £333 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £554 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £702
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 25
10th Percentile £16.35 £13.86 £11.46
25th Percentile £18.54 £15.03 £13.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +9.68% -11.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £18.11 £65.00
90th Percentile - £51.30 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +73.08%

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 5 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lincolnshire -13 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 £500 -
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler