Palo Alto Contracts 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 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 96 104
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 6 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.64% 0.84% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 2.24% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 15
10th Percentile £385 £363 £210
25th Percentile £395 £375 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £642 £573 £700
90th Percentile £717 £575 -
England median daily rate £521 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +4.00% -

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 501 713 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.41% 37.35% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 355 578
10th Percentile £225 £200 £187
25th Percentile £405 £348 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 218 116
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%
75th Percentile £64.38 £47.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.68 £65.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the East of England

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the East of England

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 May 2025.

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 May 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £564 - 5
Hertfordshire +21 1 £400 - 2
Bedfordshire -5 1 £600 +9.09% 5
Essex - 1 - - 1
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
3 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) BGP-4
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (16.67%) Junos
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (33.33%) Case Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Data Enrichment
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) SOAR
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) JNCIE
1 1 (16.67%) JNCIP
1 1 (16.67%) JNCIS
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds