Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Palo Alto
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 March 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
17 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.96% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £537 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £653 - £538
% change year-on-year - - +65.38%

All Vendors
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 153 58 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 48.73% 48.74% 45.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 51 51
10th Percentile £350 £316 £400
25th Percentile £393 £360 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £447 £577
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -22.46% +4.82%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £614
90th Percentile £653 £626 £689
Cheshire median daily rate £465 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +9.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.50 £50.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -53.00% +182.17% +1.58%

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Knutsford over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Knutsford

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) GCIA
1 1 (33.33%) GCIH
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Snort
2 1 (33.33%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Suricata
2 1 (33.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
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