Palo Alto Contracts in Hampshire

Palo Alto
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 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
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 89 72
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +56
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Palo Alto 6 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.61% 0.54% 1.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% 1.06% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 19
10th Percentile £550 £538 £415
25th Percentile £625 £550 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% +12.86% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £609 £538
90th Percentile - £649 £555
South East median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.30
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 - £62.00

All Vendors
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 496 756 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 50.15% 50.64% 56.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 442 413
10th Percentile £213 £400 £240
25th Percentile £419 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +12.05% -2.26%
75th Percentile £606 £670 £600
90th Percentile £650 £715 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 55 63
10th Percentile £20.43 £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £53.40 £18.25
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +162.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £70.29 £70.00 £73.22
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year -66.87% +27.44% +125.00%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Hampshire

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Hampshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Hampshire

Palo Alto
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Palo Alto.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Palo Alto

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Portsmouth +8 3 £700 +25.00%
Southampton - 1 £500 - 1
Fareham - 1 - - 1
Palo Alto
South East

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) BGP
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) OSPF
1 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Multicast
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (16.67%) Aviation
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) CCNP
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Iperf
2 1 (16.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Fortinet
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds