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 30 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
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 82 76
Rank change year-on-year -32 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 8 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.33% 1.07% 1.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 2.19% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile - £423 £300
25th Percentile £500 £443 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £515 - £575
90th Percentile £551 £720 £581
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £103.00 -
England median hourly rate £77.25 £50.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year +53.73% +11.67% -31.80%

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 913 638 635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 37.87% 48.96% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 322 256
10th Percentile £190 £213 £223
25th Percentile £350 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £575
90th Percentile £735 £688 £638
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 96 170
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.53 £15.15
Median hourly rate £35.53 £22.60 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +57.25% +39.22% -63.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £48.44
90th Percentile £73.75 £66.25 £65.25
England median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.94% -28.14% -20.16%

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
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 30 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
Essex - 3 £550 -
Hertfordshire -25 2 £500 -28.57% 4
Suffolk - 2 £505 - 1
Bedfordshire -1 1 £510 -
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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) Network Security
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 3 (37.50%) BGP
4 3 (37.50%) NGFW
4 3 (37.50%) WAN
5 2 (25.00%) MPLS
5 2 (25.00%) Multicast
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (12.50%) LAN
6 1 (12.50%) OSPF
6 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Deep Packet Inspection
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
1 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
3 1 (12.50%) Server Management
3 1 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) CCNP
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (12.50%) CCNA
5 1 (12.50%) CCSP
5 1 (12.50%) CISM
5 1 (12.50%) CISSP
5 1 (12.50%) CRISC
5 1 (12.50%) MCSE
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Forcepoint
4 1 (12.50%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow