Palo Alto Contracts in England

Palo Alto
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 262 226
Rank change year-on-year -6 -36 +190
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 267 307 485
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 0.93% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.03% 2.12% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 218 338
10th Percentile £388 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £611 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £650 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 10
10th Percentile £26.76 - £53.73
25th Percentile £29.00 - £60.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £62.00
75th Percentile £89.63 - £65.98
90th Percentile £92.80 - £70.60
UK median hourly rate £77.00 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +53.33%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,134 14,469 19,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.24% 43.65% 43.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 9,237 12,924
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £716 £734 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 743 578
10th Percentile £14.71 £13.69 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.73 £15.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -14.29% +55.56%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.05 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.38 £71.25 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -10.18% -29.29% +80.00%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in England.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Palo Alto in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Palo Alto in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
London +1 121 £500 -4.76% 72
North of England +14 50 £476 -7.52% 27
North West +15 45 £498 -3.30% 15
South East -11 35 £475 -13.64% 27
South West +30 19 £550 - 10
Midlands -9 16 £525 - 11
West Midlands -9 13 £537 -2.36% 8
East of England -10 11 £700 +33.33% 7
Yorkshire -11 4 £310 - 9
East Midlands +2 3 £430 +1.18% 3
North East - 1 £325 - 3
South Coast - 1 - -
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Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 77 (28.84%) Azure
2 41 (15.36%) AWS
3 20 (7.49%) GCP
4 17 (6.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 16 (5.99%) SaaS
6 14 (5.24%) PaaS
7 13 (4.87%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.00%) Amazon ELB
9 8 (3.00%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (2.62%) Akamai
11 4 (1.50%) Asana
11 4 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.50%) Slack
12 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.12%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 215 (80.52%) Firewall
2 83 (31.09%) VPN
3 80 (29.96%) Network Security
4 70 (26.22%) WAN
5 59 (22.10%) BGP
6 55 (20.60%) OSPF
7 42 (15.73%) TCP/IP
8 41 (15.36%) DNS
9 37 (13.86%) SD-WAN
10 36 (13.48%) Cisco ASA
10 36 (13.48%) LAN
11 34 (12.73%) NGFW
12 32 (11.99%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (9.36%) IPsec
14 24 (8.99%) VLAN
15 23 (8.61%) Wireless
16 21 (7.87%) Cisco ISE
16 21 (7.87%) Cisco Nexus
16 21 (7.87%) MPLS
17 19 (7.12%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.75%) Power BI
2 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (5.24%) Git
2 12 (4.49%) JIRA
3 11 (4.12%) GitLab
3 11 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 48 (17.98%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.49%) Finance
3 24 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.87%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.00%) Banking
6 8 (3.00%) Law
7 7 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.62%) Legal
7 7 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.50%) Local Government
9 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.75%) Advertising
11 2 (0.75%) Military
11 2 (0.75%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.37%) Aviation
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (49.06%) Network Engineer
2 34 (12.73%) Security Engineer
3 31 (11.61%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 25 (9.36%) Support Engineer
5 24 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (8.61%) Network Security Engineer
7 22 (8.24%) Senior
8 21 (7.87%) Architect
8 21 (7.87%) Consultant
9 20 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (6.74%) Network Architect
11 17 (6.37%) Network Support
11 17 (6.37%) Network Support Engineer
12 15 (5.62%) Analyst
13 11 (4.12%) Lead
13 11 (4.12%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.12%) Security Analyst
14 10 (3.75%) Security Consultant
15 9 (3.37%) IT Engineer
16 8 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.37%) ADO
2 13 (4.87%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.50%) JSON
4 2 (0.75%) Middleware
4 2 (0.75%) XML
5 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.37%) LDAP
5 1 (0.37%) REST
5 1 (0.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.10%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.74%) Anti-Spyware
3 15 (5.62%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.75%) Blackberry
4 10 (3.75%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.50%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.50%) PKI
10 3 (1.12%) CSOC
10 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.36%) Windows
2 10 (3.75%) Linux
3 5 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.50%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.12%) VMS
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (18.35%) Migration
2 41 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (14.98%) SIEM
4 34 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (11.99%) Agile
6 31 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (10.11%) Incident Response
8 27 (10.11%) Network Design
9 24 (8.99%) Load Balancing
9 24 (8.99%) Zero Trust
10 22 (8.24%) Security Operations
11 21 (7.87%) Cloud Security
11 21 (7.87%) ITIL
11 21 (7.87%) Kalman Filter
11 21 (7.87%) Network Management
12 20 (7.49%) Vulnerability Management
13 19 (7.12%) Impact Assessments
13 19 (7.12%) Network Architecture
14 18 (6.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.48%) Python
2 16 (5.99%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.49%) Bash
4 7 (2.62%) SQL
5 4 (1.50%) Perl
6 3 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.75%) Java
8 1 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 88 (32.96%) Security Cleared
2 78 (29.21%) SC Cleared
3 67 (25.09%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (20.60%) CCNP
5 21 (7.87%) Degree
6 15 (5.62%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.49%) CCSA
8 11 (4.12%) CCNA
9 10 (3.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (3.37%) CCSE
11 8 (3.00%) CCIE
12 7 (2.62%) Check Point Certification
13 5 (1.87%) CISSP
13 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.87%) JNCIA
14 4 (1.50%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (1.12%) CCDP
15 3 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (3.75%) NIST
2 7 (2.62%) GDPR
3 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.12%) SLA
5 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.37%) GRC
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.37%) PMO
5 1 (0.37%) PSD2
5 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 17 (6.37%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.12%) Docker
4 5 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.12%) Firmware
6 3 (1.12%) vSphere
7 2 (0.75%) Snort
7 2 (0.75%) Squid
8 1 (0.37%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.37%) iptables
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (15.36%) Ansible
2 36 (13.48%) Terraform
3 15 (5.62%) FortiGate
4 7 (2.62%) CASB
4 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.87%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.87%) QRadar
6 4 (1.50%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (1.12%) Nagios
7 3 (1.12%) SCCM
8 2 (0.75%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.75%) Icinga
8 2 (0.75%) Nessus
8 2 (0.75%) Nexpose
8 2 (0.75%) Observium
8 2 (0.75%) Suricata
8 2 (0.75%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 170 (63.67%) Cisco
2 78 (29.21%) CheckPoint
3 56 (20.97%) F5
4 48 (17.98%) Fortinet
4 48 (17.98%) Juniper
5 43 (16.10%) Microsoft
6 32 (11.99%) Zscaler
7 30 (11.24%) Meraki
8 29 (10.86%) SolarWinds
9 24 (8.99%) VMware
10 22 (8.24%) Splunk
11 20 (7.49%) Infoblox
12 16 (5.99%) Aruba
12 16 (5.99%) ServiceNow
13 12 (4.49%) CrowdStrike
13 12 (4.49%) Nokia
14 11 (4.12%) Ericsson
15 10 (3.75%) Avaya
15 10 (3.75%) Google
15 10 (3.75%) Ribbon