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 30 August 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
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.71% - -
As % of the Vendors category 5.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £502 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 - -
75th Percentile £653 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £511 £475 -
% change year-on-year +7.47% - -

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 113 147 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 51.13% 50.34% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 143 49
10th Percentile £374 £310 £391
25th Percentile £415 £354 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £430 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% -20.07% -4.78%
75th Percentile £584 £488 £606
90th Percentile £653 £515 £718
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £447 £533
% change year-on-year +6.26% -16.14% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.75 £18.31 £17.00
% change year-on-year +46.10% +7.71% -24.55%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Knutsford over the 6 months to 30 August 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Boundary Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) GCIA
1 2 (33.33%) GCIH
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE Security
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) CCSA
2 1 (16.67%) CCSE
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Snort
2 1 (16.67%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Suricata
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) CASB
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) AlgoSec
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler