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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 59 63
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 2 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.25% 1.13% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 2.52% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £594
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.80%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £519 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.10% +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 342 357 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 43.35% 44.96% 49.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 214 285
10th Percentile £212 £263 £198
25th Percentile £331 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% +4.40%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £588
90th Percentile £645 £643 £683
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 25
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.75 £11.46
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.33 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.19 £15.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.16% -20.68% +13.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £43.89 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto 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 18 September 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 +1 1 - - 1
Derbyshire - 1 £500 - 2
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 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