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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 87 103
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 26 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.63% 1.35% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 1.18% 3.53% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 17
10th Percentile £423 £300 £353
25th Percentile £489 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £684 £574 £638
90th Percentile £734 £579 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.40 - £62.62
% change year-on-year - - +54.85%

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 594 737 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.18% 38.37% 41.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 341 528
10th Percentile £225 £200 £190
25th Percentile £409 £345 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £581 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 250 91
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.95 £15.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £17.40 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +21.49% -12.17% +1.59%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.25 £49.00
90th Percentile £71.88 £73.43 £65.75
England median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
% change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 - 4 £564 - 3
Bedfordshire -13 2 £600 +8.60% 2
Essex +9 1 - -
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England

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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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
4 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (57.14%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (42.86%) Case Management
3 3 (42.86%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Data Enrichment
3 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 3 (42.86%) SOAR
3 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE Security
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) GIAC
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler