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 21 December 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
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 74 100
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 +24
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 22 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.38% 0.70% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 3.06% 1.45% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 5
10th Percentile £356 £445 £270
25th Percentile £399 £513 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +31.25% -25.58%
75th Percentile £700 £568 £450
90th Percentile - £576 -
England median daily rate £515 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -1.90% -3.23% +5.85%
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 £74.26 £45.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +65.02% -31.80% +43.11%

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 720 553 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 45.06% 48.68% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 230 414
10th Percentile £187 £220 £210
25th Percentile £363 £331 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £597
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 107 103
10th Percentile £16.05 - £14.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -50.38% +57.95%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £23.60 £30.52 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.67% -33.48% +76.46%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 - 12 £445 - 2
Hertfordshire -17 6 £700 +75.00% 6
Bedfordshire -9 4 £285 -47.22% 1
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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
1 6 (27.27%) GCP
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.09%) Mimecast
3 2 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) Firewall
2 12 (54.55%) VPN
3 6 (27.27%) DNS
3 6 (27.27%) Network Security
3 6 (27.27%) VLAN
4 4 (18.18%) BGP
4 4 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (18.18%) DHCP
4 4 (18.18%) OSPF
4 4 (18.18%) SD-WAN
4 4 (18.18%) WAN
4 4 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (9.09%) 802.11
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (9.09%) DWDM
5 2 (9.09%) LAN
5 2 (9.09%) SDH
5 2 (9.09%) Wireless
6 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
1 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Network Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Security Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Network Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Switch Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) Telecoms Architect
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security
1 6 (27.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
1 6 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
1 6 (27.27%) SIEM
1 6 (27.27%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 6 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (22.73%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) Security Operations
3 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (18.18%) Case Management
3 4 (18.18%) Cyber Intelligence
3 4 (18.18%) Data Enrichment
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) SOAR
3 4 (18.18%) Task Automation
3 4 (18.18%) Zero Trust
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (36.36%) CCNP
3 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
4 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 4 (18.18%) CCIE
6 3 (13.64%) Degree
7 2 (9.09%) CCIE Security
7 2 (9.09%) CISSP
7 2 (9.09%) GIAC
8 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (4.55%) CCNA
8 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (4.55%) MCSE
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
1 4 (18.18%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) Fortinet
3 4 (18.18%) Google
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 4 (18.18%) Splunk
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 2 (9.09%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (9.09%) Dell
4 2 (9.09%) F5
4 2 (9.09%) IBM
4 2 (9.09%) Intel
4 2 (9.09%) Juniper
4 2 (9.09%) Meraki
4 2 (9.09%) Nokia
4 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 2 (9.09%) Zscaler