Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in London

Palo Alto
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 29 November 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
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 238 268
Rank change year-on-year -20 +30 +102
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 116 160 157
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.01% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 1.75% 2.30% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 114 101
10th Percentile £391 £413 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.66% +16.60%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £745
90th Percentile £653 £656 £875
England median daily rate £523 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -0.48% +0.48% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £45.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +65.02% -31.80% +36.42%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,620 6,959 8,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.68% 43.92% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,290 4,367 5,628
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 67 112
10th Percentile £18.04 £19.37 £16.87
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -4.76% +53.15%
75th Percentile £41.25 £65.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.65 £93.00 £85.95
England median hourly rate £24.31 £32.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.20% -27.37% +69.73%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in London

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in London over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in London

Palo Alto
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Central London -1 19 £475 -24.00% 4
South London -6 4 £480 +1.05%
West London -15 3 £500 +1.27% 1
North London - 3 - -
East London - 1 £525 - 2
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (0.86%) JBoss
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 45 (38.79%) Azure
2 33 (28.45%) AWS
3 22 (18.97%) GCP
4 13 (11.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (9.48%) Amazon S3
5 11 (9.48%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.62%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (6.90%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.17%) Cloudflare
8 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.31%) OpenDNS
10 4 (3.45%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.59%) IaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.59%) PaaS
11 3 (2.59%) SaaS
12 2 (1.72%) GitHub
12 2 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 80 (68.97%) Firewall
2 44 (37.93%) Network Security
3 37 (31.90%) VPN
4 28 (24.14%) WAN
5 21 (18.10%) BGP
6 20 (17.24%) TCP/IP
7 19 (16.38%) DNS
8 17 (14.66%) SD-WAN
9 16 (13.79%) LAN
10 15 (12.93%) OSPF
10 15 (12.93%) SSL
11 12 (10.34%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (9.48%) VLAN
13 10 (8.62%) IPsec
14 8 (6.90%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (6.90%) MPLS
15 7 (6.03%) Internet
16 6 (5.17%) DHCP
16 6 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (5.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.72%) Power BI
1 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (14.66%) Git
2 13 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.34%) GitLab
4 3 (2.59%) JIRA
4 3 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.86%) Metasploit
General
1 23 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Finance
3 13 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.17%) Banking
4 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Law
5 5 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.45%) Military
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Games
8 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Retail
8 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (29.31%) Network Engineer
2 25 (21.55%) Senior
3 18 (15.52%) Security Engineer
4 17 (14.66%) Architect
5 12 (10.34%) Network Architect
6 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (8.62%) Consultant
8 8 (6.90%) Network Security Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Lead
9 6 (5.17%) Security Architect
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Network Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Operations Analyst
10 5 (4.31%) Security Analyst
10 5 (4.31%) Security Operations Analyst
10 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.45%) REST
2 2 (1.72%) JSON
2 2 (1.72%) YAML
3 1 (0.86%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.86%) ADO
3 1 (0.86%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.86%) LangChain
3 1 (0.86%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.86%) OpenConfig
3 1 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.86%) XML
3 1 (0.86%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.03%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (4.31%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.45%) PKI
5 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.59%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.72%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.72%) Life Science
6 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.72%) SCADA
6 2 (1.72%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.86%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.21%) Windows
2 9 (7.76%) Linux
3 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.86%) VMS
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (16.38%) SIEM
3 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (14.66%) DevOps
4 17 (14.66%) Incident Response
4 17 (14.66%) SOAR
5 16 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (12.93%) Zero Trust
7 14 (12.07%) Cloud Security
7 14 (12.07%) Migration
8 13 (11.21%) High Availability
8 13 (11.21%) Security Operations
9 12 (10.34%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.34%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 12 (10.34%) Network Design
10 10 (8.62%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
11 9 (7.76%) Agile
11 9 (7.76%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.90%) Python
2 18 (15.52%) Bash
3 7 (6.03%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.59%) SQL
6 2 (1.72%) Perl
7 1 (0.86%) Go
7 1 (0.86%) Java
7 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.66%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (11.21%) CCNP
5 10 (8.62%) CISSP
6 7 (6.03%) CCNA
7 6 (5.17%) Degree
8 5 (4.31%) CCIE
9 4 (3.45%) CISM
9 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (1.72%) JNCIA
11 2 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.72%) SANS
12 1 (0.86%) CCDE
12 1 (0.86%) CEH
12 1 (0.86%) GSEC
12 1 (0.86%) JNCIE
12 1 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) NIST
2 9 (7.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.17%) GDPR
4 3 (2.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.86%) PMO
6 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 17 (14.66%) Docker
2 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.17%) Squid
4 5 (4.31%) Snort
4 5 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.45%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.59%) Firmware
7 2 (1.72%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.86%) KVM
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (20.69%) Ansible
2 23 (19.83%) Terraform
3 15 (12.93%) FortiGate
4 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.17%) Nessus
6 5 (4.31%) Nexpose
6 5 (4.31%) Suricata
7 2 (1.72%) CASB
7 2 (1.72%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.72%) Grafana
7 2 (1.72%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.86%) QRadar
8 1 (0.86%) SCCM
8 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (49.14%) Cisco
2 34 (29.31%) Fortinet
3 29 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 26 (22.41%) CheckPoint
5 24 (20.69%) F5
5 24 (20.69%) Juniper
6 13 (11.21%) Google
6 13 (11.21%) Splunk
7 12 (10.34%) Zscaler
8 10 (8.62%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (6.90%) Qualys
10 7 (6.03%) FireEye
10 7 (6.03%) VMware
11 6 (5.17%) Arista
11 6 (5.17%) SolarWinds
12 5 (4.31%) Aruba
12 5 (4.31%) Blue Coat
12 5 (4.31%) Carbon Black
12 5 (4.31%) Infoblox
12 5 (4.31%) Meraki