Palo Alto Contracts in Edinburgh

Palo Alto
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 62 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 5 0 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% - 3.38%
As % of the Vendors category 1.79% - 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 38
10th Percentile £421 - £392
25th Percentile £434 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £484 - £519
90th Percentile £494 - £543
Scotland median daily rate £412 £553 £498
% change year-on-year -25.43% +11.06% +10.56%

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 279 319 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.64% 39.14% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 181 393
10th Percentile £189 £210 £179
25th Percentile £400 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £561 £588 £525
90th Percentile £638 £725 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £465 £473
% change year-on-year -0.11% -1.69% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 4
10th Percentile - £15.46 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.26
Median hourly rate £22.44 £17.72 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +26.62% -17.45% -41.19%
75th Percentile £24.30 £55.00 £29.69
90th Percentile £31.54 £60.75 £44.13
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Edinburgh

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Edinburgh

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (60.00%) IPsec
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Field Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Kanban
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) KVM
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Aruba
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Commvault
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) VMware