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 28 December 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
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 226 263
Rank change year-on-year -41 +37 +111
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 113 151 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.02% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 2.30% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 104 80
10th Percentile £369 £416 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £743
90th Percentile £675 £669 £875
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
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% +43.11%

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 6,743 6,553 7,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.26% 40.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,395 4,097 5,128
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £756
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 69 108
10th Percentile £17.55 £19.66 £16.62
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.41% -8.00% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.89 £63.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £67.13 £83.10 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.54 £30.20 £45.55
% change year-on-year -22.06% -33.69% +75.17%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 -2 19 £475 -24.00% 21
South London -6 3 £480 +1.05% 2
North London - 3 - -
West London -17 2 £500 - 4
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 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.88%) JBoss
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 46 (40.71%) Azure
2 32 (28.32%) AWS
3 19 (16.81%) GCP
4 15 (13.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (9.73%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (8.85%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.85%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (8.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.42%) Cloudflare
8 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.54%) Mimecast
9 4 (3.54%) OpenDNS
10 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.65%) IaaS
10 3 (2.65%) PaaS
11 2 (1.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.77%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 76 (67.26%) Firewall
2 46 (40.71%) Network Security
3 33 (29.20%) VPN
4 28 (24.78%) WAN
5 21 (18.58%) BGP
5 21 (18.58%) TCP/IP
6 18 (15.93%) DNS
7 17 (15.04%) SSL
8 16 (14.16%) LAN
8 16 (14.16%) SD-WAN
9 14 (12.39%) OSPF
10 10 (8.85%) IPsec
10 10 (8.85%) Wireless
11 9 (7.96%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (7.96%) VLAN
11 9 (7.96%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (7.08%) MPLS
13 7 (6.19%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (6.19%) Internet
14 6 (5.31%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.77%) Power BI
2 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Git
2 13 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.85%) GitLab
4 3 (2.65%) JIRA
5 2 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.88%) Metasploit
General
1 22 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (13.27%) Finance
2 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.31%) Banking
3 6 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (4.42%) Military
5 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Law
6 2 (1.77%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Games
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Local Government
7 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Retail
7 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (31.86%) Network Engineer
2 24 (21.24%) Senior
3 20 (17.70%) Architect
4 17 (15.04%) Security Engineer
5 14 (12.39%) Network Architect
6 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Network Security Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Consultant
8 7 (6.19%) Lead
9 6 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Security Architect
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Network Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.54%) 802.1X
1 4 (3.54%) REST
2 3 (2.65%) JSON
3 2 (1.77%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.77%) XML
3 2 (1.77%) YAML
3 2 (1.77%) YANG
4 1 (0.88%) ADO
4 1 (0.88%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.88%) CSS
4 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.88%) HTML
4 1 (0.88%) LangChain
4 1 (0.88%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.42%) PKI
2 5 (4.42%) Public Cloud
2 5 (4.42%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.77%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.77%) Life Science
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.77%) SCADA
5 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.77%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.88%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.39%) Windows
2 9 (7.96%) Linux
3 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (15.93%) DevOps
4 17 (15.04%) Incident Response
4 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (15.04%) SIEM
5 16 (14.16%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (14.16%) SOAR
6 15 (13.27%) Cloud Security
6 15 (13.27%) Migration
7 14 (12.39%) High Availability
8 12 (10.62%) Network Design
9 11 (9.73%) CI/CD
9 11 (9.73%) Mentoring
9 11 (9.73%) Security Operations
9 11 (9.73%) Zero Trust
10 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (8.85%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 10 (8.85%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (7.96%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.32%) Python
2 17 (15.04%) Bash
3 7 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.54%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.65%) SQL
6 1 (0.88%) Go
6 1 (0.88%) Java
6 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) Perl
6 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.78%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.70%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (15.04%) CCNP
5 8 (7.08%) CCNA
5 8 (7.08%) CISSP
5 8 (7.08%) Degree
6 4 (3.54%) CCIE
6 4 (3.54%) CISM
7 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.77%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.88%) CCDP
9 1 (0.88%) CCSE
9 1 (0.88%) CISA
9 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) NIST
2 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.42%) GDPR
4 3 (2.65%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.88%) PMO
6 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 16 (14.16%) Docker
2 9 (7.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.42%) Squid
4 4 (3.54%) Snort
5 3 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.77%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.88%) Firmware
7 1 (0.88%) KVM
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (21.24%) Terraform
2 22 (19.47%) Ansible
3 16 (14.16%) FortiGate
4 8 (7.08%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.42%) Nessus
6 4 (3.54%) Nexpose
6 4 (3.54%) Suricata
7 3 (2.65%) Grafana
7 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.77%) CASB
9 1 (0.88%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.88%) Salt
9 1 (0.88%) SCCM
9 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (46.90%) Cisco
2 33 (29.20%) Fortinet
3 29 (25.66%) CheckPoint
4 27 (23.89%) Microsoft
5 23 (20.35%) F5
5 23 (20.35%) Juniper
6 13 (11.50%) Splunk
7 12 (10.62%) Google
8 11 (9.73%) Aruba
9 10 (8.85%) Zscaler
10 8 (7.08%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (6.19%) Qualys
12 6 (5.31%) FireEye
13 5 (4.42%) Tenable
14 4 (3.54%) Arista
14 4 (3.54%) Carbon Black
14 4 (3.54%) Extreme Networks
14 4 (3.54%) Infoblox
14 4 (3.54%) Meraki
14 4 (3.54%) SolarWinds