Palo Alto Contracts 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 253 310
Rank change year-on-year +20 +57 +115
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 120 139 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.96% 0.78% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 2.11% 1.92% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 99 137
10th Percentile £388 £343 £400
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £738
90th Percentile £750 £863 £830
England median daily rate £521 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - £63.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +1.61% -10.21%

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 5,695 7,227 10,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.39% 40.53% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 4,950 7,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 138 127
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.86 £16.28
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%
75th Percentile £51.20 £36.56 £57.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £64.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in London.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in London.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in London

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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 1 May 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 +14 24 £536 -10.67% 9
East London +15 2 £515 -0.96% 2
South London - 1 £450 -
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 57 (47.50%) Azure
2 17 (14.17%) AWS
2 17 (14.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 11 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.67%) Asana
4 8 (6.67%) Slack
5 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.17%) GCP
7 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.50%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.50%) SaaS
8 2 (1.67%) Akamai
8 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.67%) GitHub
8 2 (1.67%) IaaS
8 2 (1.67%) PaaS
9 1 (0.83%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 98 (81.67%) Firewall
2 50 (41.67%) VPN
3 40 (33.33%) WAN
4 31 (25.83%) Network Security
5 27 (22.50%) NGFW
6 26 (21.67%) SD-WAN
7 24 (20.00%) DNS
8 23 (19.17%) LAN
9 22 (18.33%) Wireless
10 21 (17.50%) BGP
11 18 (15.00%) OSPF
12 16 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (11.67%) MPLS
15 13 (10.83%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (9.17%) IPsec
17 8 (6.67%) DHCP
17 8 (6.67%) Wireshark
18 7 (5.83%) TCP/IP
18 7 (5.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) JIRA
2 5 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (3.33%) GitLab
4 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.83%) Git
General
1 29 (24.17%) Finance
2 25 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.17%) Legal
4 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.50%) Banking
5 3 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.67%) Law
6 2 (1.67%) Local Government
6 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.67%) Public Speaking
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing
7 1 (0.83%) Military
7 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Police
7 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 24 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 18 (15.00%) Security Engineer
4 17 (14.17%) Architect
5 16 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (13.33%) Network Support
5 16 (13.33%) Network Support Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) Senior
7 10 (8.33%) IT Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Network Architect
8 9 (7.50%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (7.50%) Consultant
8 9 (7.50%) Operations Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) IT Support
9 8 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Security Architect
10 7 (5.83%) Lead
10 7 (5.83%) Network Security Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.33%) ADO
2 4 (3.33%) JSON
3 2 (1.67%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.67%) XML
4 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.67%) Data Centre
2 17 (14.17%) Anti-Spyware
3 9 (7.50%) Security Posture
4 8 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) PKI
5 4 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.67%) Blog
6 2 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.83%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (3.33%) Linux
3 3 (2.50%) VMS
3 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.83%) Android
5 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.83%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.50%) Migration
2 25 (20.83%) Agile
3 22 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
5 16 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
5 16 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (12.50%) SIEM
7 13 (10.83%) Security Operations
8 12 (10.00%) Cloud Security
8 12 (10.00%) Incident Response
9 11 (9.17%) SOAR
10 9 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (7.50%) Hyperautomation
10 9 (7.50%) Service Management
11 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (6.67%) Network Design
11 8 (6.67%) Workflow
12 7 (5.83%) Change Management
12 7 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (5.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.83%) Python
2 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.33%) SQL
4 2 (1.67%) Bash
5 1 (0.83%) Bicep
5 1 (0.83%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (15.83%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (12.50%) CCNP
3 10 (8.33%) Degree
4 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.17%) CCNA
6 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.67%) CISSP
7 2 (1.67%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.83%) CCIE
8 1 (0.83%) CCSA
8 1 (0.83%) CCSE
8 1 (0.83%) CEH
8 1 (0.83%) CISM
8 1 (0.83%) GIAC
8 1 (0.83%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.83%) OSCP
8 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.83%) NIST
3 5 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.50%) GDPR
4 3 (2.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.83%) GRC
5 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.83%) PSD2
System Software
1 13 (10.83%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.67%) Firmware
4 2 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.83%) FreeRADIUS
5 1 (0.83%) iptables
5 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (21.67%) Terraform
2 8 (6.67%) Ansible
3 5 (4.17%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.67%) Nagios
5 2 (1.67%) OPNET
5 2 (1.67%) QRadar
6 1 (0.83%) CASB
6 1 (0.83%) Grafana
6 1 (0.83%) Graylog
6 1 (0.83%) Icinga
6 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.83%) logstash
6 1 (0.83%) Observium
6 1 (0.83%) Plesk
6 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.83%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.83%) Puppet
6 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (50.83%) Cisco
2 37 (30.83%) CheckPoint
3 29 (24.17%) Microsoft
4 26 (21.67%) Fortinet
5 21 (17.50%) Juniper
5 21 (17.50%) Meraki
6 20 (16.67%) F5
7 19 (15.83%) Infoblox
8 15 (12.50%) Zscaler
9 11 (9.17%) Aruba
10 10 (8.33%) Google
10 10 (8.33%) SolarWinds
11 6 (5.00%) Splunk
11 6 (5.00%) VMware
12 4 (3.33%) Arista
13 3 (2.50%) IBM
13 3 (2.50%) Ruckus Wireless
14 2 (1.67%) Forcepoint
14 2 (1.67%) HP
14 2 (1.67%) TIBCO