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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 81 101
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +17
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 24 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.51% 0.44% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 3.37% 0.92% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 4
10th Percentile - £423 £253
25th Percentile £356 £456 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +31.25% -14.44%
75th Percentile £594 £553 £431
90th Percentile £700 £562 £443
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

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 713 545 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.76% 48.36% 42.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 230 400
10th Percentile £193 £220 £223
25th Percentile £363 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +4.71%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £726
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 104 103
10th Percentile £16.01 - £13.29
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -42.86% +35.27%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -20.58% -34.78% +70.37%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 - 13 £363 - 2
Hertfordshire -13 6 £700 +75.00% 8
Bedfordshire -3 5 £475 -12.04% 2
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 4 (16.67%) Apache
1 4 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 4 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (12.50%) Mimecast
2 3 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (91.67%) Firewall
2 13 (54.17%) VPN
3 7 (29.17%) Network Security
4 6 (25.00%) DNS
4 6 (25.00%) VLAN
5 4 (16.67%) BGP
5 4 (16.67%) DHCP
5 4 (16.67%) OSPF
6 3 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 3 (12.50%) WAN
6 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (8.33%) 802.11
7 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (8.33%) DWDM
7 2 (8.33%) SDH
7 2 (8.33%) Wireless
8 1 (4.17%) LAN
8 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) IT Support
3 3 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Network Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 4 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (29.17%) ITIL
1 7 (29.17%) Network Segmentation
2 5 (20.83%) Zero Trust
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (16.67%) ITSM
3 4 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 4 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 4 (16.67%) Server Building
3 4 (16.67%) Service Management
3 4 (16.67%) SIEM
3 4 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (12.50%) Data Enrichment
4 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (29.17%) CCNP
5 3 (12.50%) CCIE
5 3 (12.50%) Degree
6 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.17%) CCIE Security
6 1 (4.17%) CCNA
6 1 (4.17%) CISSP
6 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (4.17%) GIAC
6 1 (4.17%) MCSE
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (25.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Fortinet
4 4 (16.67%) Barracuda Networks
4 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 3 (12.50%) Google
5 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.50%) Splunk
6 2 (8.33%) Dell
6 2 (8.33%) F5
6 2 (8.33%) IBM
6 2 (8.33%) Intel
6 2 (8.33%) Juniper
6 2 (8.33%) Meraki
6 2 (8.33%) Nokia
7 1 (4.17%) Zscaler