Palo Alto Contracts in England

Palo Alto
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Palo Alto over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 319 471
Rank change year-on-year +57 +152 -69
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 319 388 339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.86% 0.76% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 2.03% 1.83% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 279 234
10th Percentile £378 £309 £350
25th Percentile £426 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +4.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £661 £650 £575
90th Percentile £825 £743 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 21 3
10th Percentile - £51.37 £27.92
25th Percentile £58.50 £52.13 £43.35
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -10.21% +11.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.99 -
90th Percentile - £80.25 -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £62.62 £69.05
% change year-on-year +0.61% -9.32% +11.37%

All Vendors
England

Palo Alto is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,752 21,256 28,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.32% 41.83% 39.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,026 14,627 19,099
10th Percentile £255 £263 £268
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,003 617 800
10th Percentile £12.03 £15.06 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.30 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.58% +107.76% -6.67%

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 24 April 2024.

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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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 24 April 2024. 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 +67 140 £525 -4.55% 63
South East +13 67 £605 +21.00% 25
North of England +10 36 £437 +2.79% 5
North West +9 35 £434 +15.65% 3
South West +27 27 £646 +18.80% 2
Midlands +27 18 £600 +29.73% 7
West Midlands +24 15 £750 +66.67% 6
East of England +9 15 £425 -27.66% 9
East Midlands +8 3 £325 -53.57% 1
Yorkshire +6 1 £550 - 1
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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 (1.88%) Confluence
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.94%) IIS
3 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.94%) WordPress
4 2 (0.63%) nginx
5 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (6.27%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 78 (24.45%) Azure
2 47 (14.73%) AWS
3 18 (5.64%) OCI
4 16 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (2.19%) Route 53
7 6 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.88%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.88%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.88%) GCP
8 5 (1.57%) Asana
8 5 (1.57%) AWS CloudTrail
8 5 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.57%) GitHub
8 5 (1.57%) Slack
9 4 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 234 (73.35%) Firewall
2 105 (32.92%) WAN
3 103 (32.29%) Network Security
4 94 (29.47%) Cisco ASA
5 92 (28.84%) LAN
6 88 (27.59%) VPN
7 81 (25.39%) BGP
8 78 (24.45%) OSPF
9 77 (24.14%) Wireless
10 55 (17.24%) DNS
10 55 (17.24%) SD-WAN
11 54 (16.93%) Cisco ISE
12 50 (15.67%) IPsec
13 42 (13.17%) DHCP
14 40 (12.54%) Cisco Nexus
14 40 (12.54%) WLAN
15 39 (12.23%) Wi-Fi
16 35 (10.97%) MPLS
17 31 (9.72%) EIGRP
18 29 (9.09%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (1.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.76%) Git
2 11 (3.45%) JIRA
3 5 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.25%) GitLab
4 4 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
General
1 57 (17.87%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.99%) Finance
3 36 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 22 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.27%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.82%) Legal
8 7 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.88%) Marketing
10 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.57%) Banking
10 5 (1.57%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.25%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.25%) Electronics
11 4 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.63%) Law
14 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 172 (53.92%) Network Engineer
2 48 (15.05%) Senior
3 47 (14.73%) Architect
4 37 (11.60%) Security Engineer
5 30 (9.40%) Senior Network Engineer
6 27 (8.46%) Network Security Engineer
7 22 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (6.58%) Network Specialist
9 17 (5.33%) Network Architect
10 16 (5.02%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 14 (4.39%) Cisco Engineer
11 14 (4.39%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 11 (3.45%) Analyst
12 11 (3.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 8 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.51%) Storage Engineer
14 7 (2.19%) Consultant
14 7 (2.19%) Network Analyst
14 7 (2.19%) Security Analyst
14 7 (2.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.39%) Jinja
2 11 (3.45%) 802.1X
3 8 (2.51%) JSON
3 8 (2.51%) XML
4 7 (2.19%) NETCONF
4 7 (2.19%) YANG
5 5 (1.57%) Web Services
6 4 (1.25%) EDI
6 4 (1.25%) LDAP
6 4 (1.25%) Node.js
6 4 (1.25%) SAML
7 3 (0.94%) LAMP
8 2 (0.63%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.63%) RESTful
9 1 (0.31%) OAuth
9 1 (0.31%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (32.29%) Data Centre
2 33 (10.34%) PKI
3 11 (3.45%) Operational Technology
3 11 (3.45%) Replication
4 9 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.51%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.19%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.57%) Clustering
8 5 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.25%) CCTV
9 4 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.17%) Windows
2 33 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 28 (8.78%) Linux
4 15 (4.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (4.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (4.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (4.39%) Windows 10
6 12 (3.76%) Windows XP
7 5 (1.57%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.25%) VMS
9 3 (0.94%) Unix
10 2 (0.63%) CentOS
11 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (16.61%) ITIL
3 43 (13.48%) Change Management
4 40 (12.54%) Migration
5 32 (10.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 31 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
6 31 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (8.78%) Network Design
8 26 (8.15%) ITSM
9 24 (7.52%) Cloud Security
9 24 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (7.52%) DevOps
10 23 (7.21%) High Availability
11 22 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (6.90%) Storage Management
12 21 (6.58%) Agile
12 21 (6.58%) Mentoring
13 20 (6.27%) Load Balancing
13 20 (6.27%) Network Architecture
14 19 (5.96%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.42%) Python
2 25 (7.84%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.76%) Perl
3 12 (3.76%) Tcl
4 5 (1.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.31%) Bash
5 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (36.68%) Cisco Certification
1 117 (36.68%) Security Cleared
2 103 (32.29%) CCNP
3 84 (26.33%) SC Cleared
4 53 (16.61%) CCNA
5 52 (16.30%) DV Cleared
6 32 (10.03%) Degree
7 20 (6.27%) CCIE
8 13 (4.08%) JNCIA
9 11 (3.45%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.51%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.51%) CISM
11 7 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.19%) CCSA
11 7 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.57%) CCDP
12 5 (1.57%) CCIE Data Center
12 5 (1.57%) CISSP
12 5 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.13%) SLA
2 6 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.25%) NCSC
4 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.31%) ISA99
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
6 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (9.40%) VMware NSX
2 29 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 27 (8.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.96%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.70%) Firmware
6 13 (4.08%) Hyper-V
7 7 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.57%) vSphere
9 2 (0.63%) Squid
10 1 (0.31%) KVM
Systems Management
1 34 (10.66%) FortiGate
2 29 (9.09%) Terraform
3 23 (7.21%) Ansible
4 20 (6.27%) vCenter Server
5 15 (4.70%) SCCM
6 13 (4.08%) WSUS
7 12 (3.76%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (3.76%) Nessus
7 12 (3.76%) NetBackup
7 12 (3.76%) SCOM
8 8 (2.51%) SolarWinds Orion
9 6 (1.88%) Kubernetes
10 5 (1.57%) CSIRT
11 4 (1.25%) CASB
12 3 (0.94%) Kibana
12 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.63%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.63%) Puppet
13 2 (0.63%) VxRail
13 2 (0.63%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 222 (69.59%) Cisco
2 85 (26.65%) Juniper
3 63 (19.75%) CheckPoint
3 63 (19.75%) F5
4 61 (19.12%) Fortinet
5 54 (16.93%) VMware
6 51 (15.99%) Microsoft
7 36 (11.29%) Dell
8 35 (10.97%) SolarWinds
9 25 (7.84%) Zscaler
10 24 (7.52%) Extreme Networks
10 24 (7.52%) Meraki
10 24 (7.52%) Veeam
11 18 (5.64%) Citrix
11 18 (5.64%) Symantec
12 17 (5.33%) Aruba
12 17 (5.33%) Infoblox
13 14 (4.39%) EMC
13 14 (4.39%) HP
14 13 (4.08%) Oracle