Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Palo Alto
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.61% - 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 1.14% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £238
75th Percentile - - £256
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +17.96%

All Vendors
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 88 90 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 53.66% 45.00% 67.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 31 92
10th Percentile £250 £400 £363
25th Percentile £400 £456 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £603 £620 £650
90th Percentile £687 £638 £720
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 43
10th Percentile £23.32 £23.46 £20.34
25th Percentile £42.58 £35.36 £20.97
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.23% -12.68% +38.43%
75th Percentile £66.78 £46.18 -
90th Percentile £77.18 £52.78 £69.06
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% - +49.64%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Palo Alto
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Preston - 1 £335 -
Palo Alto
North West

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds