Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Palo Alto
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Guildford 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 1.28% - -
As % of the Vendors category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +61.29%

All Vendors
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 41 26 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 52.56% 60.47% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 44
10th Percentile £389 £471 £354
25th Percentile £406 £501 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +9.76% -2.38%
75th Percentile £517 £588 £550
90th Percentile £550 £595 £613
Surrey median daily rate £500 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +2.09% +8.83% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 7
10th Percentile £48.30 £24.80 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £26.00 £11.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £12.43
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% +125.35% -
75th Percentile - £29.00 £13.14
90th Percentile - £29.60 -
Surrey median hourly rate £70.00 £26.33 £16.00
% change year-on-year +165.86% +64.56% -64.44%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Guildford

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

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

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet