Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Palo Alto
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 May 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 70 98
Rank change year-on-year -26 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 17 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.77% 0.64% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 1.90% 1.20% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 9
10th Percentile - £385 £363
25th Percentile £356 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £488 £642 £573
90th Percentile £500 £717 £575
England median daily rate £475 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% +5.00%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 897 500 709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 40.37% 53.19% 37.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 261 360
10th Percentile £196 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +0.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £701
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 93 210
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.85 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +7.96% +6.50% -6.84%
75th Percentile £27.50 £63.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +13.36% +20.56% -43.75%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the East of England

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the East of England

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Cambridgeshire +10 7 £363 -35.70%
Bedfordshire -7 5 £475 -20.83%
Suffolk - 3 £505 - 1
Hertfordshire -21 2 £500 +25.00% 5
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (29.41%) Apache
1 5 (29.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Mimecast
2 3 (17.65%) Nutanix
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) Firewall
2 10 (58.82%) Network Security
3 8 (47.06%) VPN
4 5 (29.41%) DNS
5 3 (17.65%) BGP
5 3 (17.65%) DHCP
5 3 (17.65%) WAN
6 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (11.76%) MPLS
6 2 (11.76%) Multicast
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (5.88%) LAN
7 1 (5.88%) OSPF
7 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.88%) Wireless
General
1 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
1 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Network Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Switch Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (23.53%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) IT Support
4 3 (17.65%) Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Network Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Network Support
5 2 (11.76%) Network Support Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
1 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) ITSM
3 5 (29.41%) Network Segmentation
3 5 (29.41%) PRINCE2
3 5 (29.41%) Server Building
3 5 (29.41%) Service Management
3 5 (29.41%) Zero Trust
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Validation
5 2 (11.76%) Business Enablement
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.76%) Security Management
5 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps
6 1 (5.88%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Secrets Management
6 1 (5.88%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bash
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) CISM
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.88%) CRISC
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Cisco
2 7 (41.18%) ServiceNow
2 7 (41.18%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) Barracuda Networks
3 5 (29.41%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft