Palo Alto Contract Job Trends 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 21 January 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
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 64 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 4 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.68% 0.17% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 1.75% 0.45% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £353 - £509
25th Percentile £375 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.50%
75th Percentile £444 - £555
90th Percentile £448 - £563
Scotland median daily rate £500 £375 £520
% change year-on-year +33.33% -27.88% +4.00%

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 228 223 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.64% 37.23% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 105 223
10th Percentile £308 £159 £199
25th Percentile £422 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £560 £575
90th Percentile £685 £665 £638
Scotland median daily rate £471 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +4.56% -7.69% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 11
10th Percentile - £21.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £22.43 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.94 £24.09 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +5.33% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £60.38
90th Percentile £68.13 £27.26 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.74% +20.97% +10.05%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Palo Alto relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (75.00%) IPsec
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Field Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Network Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Network Management
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Network Design
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5