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 2 September 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
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 260 243
Rank change year-on-year -34 -17 -8
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 154 113 149
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.85% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 1.79% 1.84% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 69 120
10th Percentile £325 £398 £400
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £36.05 - -
25th Percentile £45.63 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £77.00 -
% change year-on-year -22.08% - -

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 8,592 6,139 7,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.88% 46.24% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,596 3,974 4,672
10th Percentile £343 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 126 83
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £20.75 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -12.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £39.69 £63.22
90th Percentile £85.04 £63.75 £78.25
England median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -16.17% -27.71%

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 2 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Palo Alto in London over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 September 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 -26 18 £650 +25.48% 12
South London -13 5 £450 -16.28%
West London -15 3 £525 +5.00% 3
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 (1.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 64 (41.56%) Azure
2 38 (24.68%) AWS
3 16 (10.39%) GCP
4 11 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 11 (7.14%) GitHub
5 8 (5.19%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.90%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.95%) OCI
9 2 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.30%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.30%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.65%) Datadog
10 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 124 (80.52%) Firewall
2 71 (46.10%) WAN
3 62 (40.26%) Network Security
4 51 (33.12%) VPN
5 43 (27.92%) BGP
6 29 (18.83%) OSPF
7 26 (16.88%) SD-WAN
8 24 (15.58%) LAN
9 23 (14.94%) VLAN
10 22 (14.29%) MPLS
11 20 (12.99%) Wireless
12 17 (11.04%) DNS
12 17 (11.04%) NGFW
13 15 (9.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 15 (9.74%) Multicast
14 13 (8.44%) Cisco ISE
15 12 (7.79%) DHCP
15 12 (7.79%) IPsec
16 10 (6.49%) TACACS
16 10 (6.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.65%) MySQL
1 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.55%) JIRA
2 3 (1.95%) Git
2 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (16.88%) Finance
2 22 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.19%) Banking
5 7 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.90%) Legal
7 5 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.25%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.25%) Retail
8 4 (2.60%) Local Government
8 4 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Law
10 2 (1.30%) Military
10 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
11 1 (0.65%) German Language
11 1 (0.65%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 91 (59.09%) Network Engineer
2 34 (22.08%) Security Engineer
3 26 (16.88%) Senior
4 23 (14.94%) Architect
5 19 (12.34%) Network Security Engineer
6 17 (11.04%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Consultant
7 11 (7.14%) Network Architect
7 11 (7.14%) Security Architect
8 10 (6.49%) Cisco Engineer
8 10 (6.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) IT Support
10 8 (5.19%) Firewall Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) IT Consultant
11 7 (4.55%) Security Manager
11 7 (4.55%) Support Consultant
12 6 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
13 5 (3.25%) Senior Cisco Engineer
13 5 (3.25%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.53%) Terraform
2 5 (3.25%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.25%) SAML
3 2 (1.30%) eBPF
4 1 (0.65%) LDAP
4 1 (0.65%) OAuth
4 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.95%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.95%) IoT
5 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.30%) CCTV
6 2 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.30%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.65%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.90%) Windows
2 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.30%) Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.78%) Zero Trust
2 24 (15.58%) Cloud Security
3 23 (14.94%) Migration
4 19 (12.34%) Project Delivery
5 18 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (11.04%) Validation
7 14 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (9.09%) Load Balancing
7 14 (9.09%) Security Architecture
8 12 (7.79%) Network Design
9 11 (7.14%) Agile
9 11 (7.14%) Incident Response
9 11 (7.14%) Runbook
10 10 (6.49%) ITSM
10 10 (6.49%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.84%) CI/CD
11 9 (5.84%) ITIL
11 9 (5.84%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (5.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.43%) Python
2 10 (6.49%) Bash
3 6 (3.90%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (20.13%) CCNP
3 21 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 20 (12.99%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.79%) Degree
6 5 (3.25%) CCNA
7 4 (2.60%) CCSE
8 3 (1.95%) CCIE
8 3 (1.95%) CISSP
8 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.30%) CISM
9 2 (1.30%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.30%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CCSA
10 1 (0.65%) CRISC
10 1 (0.65%) CWNA
10 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) NIST
2 6 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.25%) NIST 800
4 4 (2.60%) GRC
5 3 (1.95%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.25%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.95%) Firmware
3 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) NFS
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (17.53%) FortiGate
2 25 (16.23%) Ansible
3 5 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.25%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.95%) Consul
5 2 (1.30%) Grafana
5 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 89 (57.79%) Cisco
2 54 (35.06%) Fortinet
3 34 (22.08%) F5
4 30 (19.48%) Zscaler
5 29 (18.83%) CheckPoint
6 27 (17.53%) Juniper
7 20 (12.99%) Arista
8 14 (9.09%) Aruba
9 8 (5.19%) Infoblox
9 8 (5.19%) Microsoft
10 7 (4.55%) Meraki
11 5 (3.25%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.60%) Blue Coat
12 4 (2.60%) Google
12 4 (2.60%) Riverbed
13 3 (1.95%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (1.95%) Ping Identity
13 3 (1.95%) Tenable
13 3 (1.95%) VMware
14 2 (1.30%) CrowdStrike