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 11 April 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
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 222 241
Rank change year-on-year -66 +19 +87
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 135 127 139
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.00% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.78% 2.23% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 84 92
10th Percentile £400 £388 £314
25th Percentile £413 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £506 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -3.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £691
90th Percentile £675 £750 £863
England median daily rate £481 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -7.45% - +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - +1.61%

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 7,589 5,700 7,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.89% 45.09% 40.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,996 3,743 4,944
10th Percentile £350 £322 £281
25th Percentile £425 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.46% -3.13%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £765 £767
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 86 142
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.30 £13.46
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.52 £16.90
Median hourly rate £32.00 £29.07 £24.68
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +17.80% -4.52%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.13 £40.46
90th Percentile £68.12 £68.13 £69.35
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -41.75%

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 11 April 2026.

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 11 April 2026. 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 -23 14 £575 +4.55% 7
South London -10 5 £425 -5.56%
North London - 4 - -
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 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) JBoss
3 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (37.04%) Azure
2 26 (19.26%) AWS
3 17 (12.59%) GCP
4 7 (5.19%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.96%) GitHub
6 3 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.22%) Route 53
6 3 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.48%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.48%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.48%) OCI
8 1 (0.74%) IaaS
8 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.74%) OpenDNS
8 1 (0.74%) PaaS
8 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (71.11%) Firewall
2 53 (39.26%) Network Security
2 53 (39.26%) WAN
3 40 (29.63%) VPN
4 39 (28.89%) BGP
5 29 (21.48%) LAN
6 28 (20.74%) OSPF
7 21 (15.56%) MPLS
7 21 (15.56%) SD-WAN
8 19 (14.07%) Wireless
9 18 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (11.85%) VLAN
11 15 (11.11%) Multicast
12 12 (8.89%) NGFW
13 11 (8.15%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (8.15%) DNS
13 11 (8.15%) EIGRP
13 11 (8.15%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (6.67%) Internet
14 9 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
1 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) JIRA
2 2 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (22.96%) Finance
2 22 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Legal
5 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.67%) Financial Institution
7 7 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.70%) Banking
9 5 (3.70%) Law
10 2 (1.48%) Local Government
10 2 (1.48%) Military
10 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (51.11%) Network Engineer
2 28 (20.74%) Senior
3 23 (17.04%) Architect
4 16 (11.85%) Security Engineer
5 14 (10.37%) Senior Network Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Network Security Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) Network Architect
8 7 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Network Operations Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Operations Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.44%) Cisco Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Consultant
11 4 (2.96%) Firewall Engineer
12 3 (2.22%) Data Centre Engineer
12 3 (2.22%) Lead Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.44%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.70%) REST
3 2 (1.48%) CSS
3 2 (1.48%) HTML
3 2 (1.48%) JSON
3 2 (1.48%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.48%) SAML
3 2 (1.48%) XML
3 2 (1.48%) YANG
4 1 (0.74%) LDAP
4 1 (0.74%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.74%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (5.19%) Security Posture
3 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.96%) PKI
6 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.74%) BYOD
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) SCADA
7 1 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.11%) Linux
2 13 (9.63%) Windows
3 7 (5.19%) Unix
4 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (11.11%) Network Design
3 13 (9.63%) Incident Management
3 13 (9.63%) ITIL
3 13 (9.63%) Migration
4 12 (8.89%) Cloud Security
4 12 (8.89%) Incident Response
5 11 (8.15%) Zero Trust
6 10 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (7.41%) Project Delivery
6 10 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (6.67%) Agile
7 9 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 9 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (6.67%) Observability
7 9 (6.67%) Validation
8 8 (5.93%) ITSM
8 8 (5.93%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.74%) Python
2 7 (5.19%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.22%) Bash
3 3 (2.22%) SQL
4 2 (1.48%) ActionScript
4 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (17.04%) CCNP
3 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
4 18 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.89%) Degree
6 6 (4.44%) CCNA
7 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.22%) CCIE
7 3 (2.22%) CCSE
7 3 (2.22%) CISSP
7 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.48%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.74%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.74%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.74%) PMP
9 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.74%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.70%) NIST
2 2 (1.48%) GDPR
2 2 (1.48%) GRC
2 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.74%) NCSC
3 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.74%) PMO
3 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.48%) Docker
3 2 (1.48%) Firmware
3 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.48%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.74%) IAG
4 1 (0.74%) NFS
4 1 (0.74%) Snort
4 1 (0.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (16.30%) Ansible
2 20 (14.81%) FortiGate
3 12 (8.89%) Prometheus
3 12 (8.89%) Terraform
4 11 (8.15%) Grafana
5 5 (3.70%) Salt
6 3 (2.22%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.74%) CASB
7 1 (0.74%) Consul
7 1 (0.74%) Nessus
7 1 (0.74%) Nexpose
7 1 (0.74%) QRadar
7 1 (0.74%) SCCM
7 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) Suricata
7 1 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 91 (67.41%) Cisco
2 43 (31.85%) CheckPoint
3 36 (26.67%) F5
4 32 (23.70%) Fortinet
5 27 (20.00%) Juniper
6 24 (17.78%) Aruba
7 18 (13.33%) Arista
8 15 (11.11%) Microsoft
9 11 (8.15%) Splunk
10 8 (5.93%) Infoblox
10 8 (5.93%) Zscaler
11 7 (5.19%) ServiceNow
12 6 (4.44%) BigPanda
12 6 (4.44%) Meraki
12 6 (4.44%) SolarWinds
13 5 (3.70%) Google
14 3 (2.22%) Blue Coat
14 3 (2.22%) Dell
14 3 (2.22%) VMware
15 2 (1.48%) Nokia