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 7 January 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
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 226 275
Rank change year-on-year -42 +49 +110
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 118 146 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.02% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 1.75% 2.33% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 101 73
10th Percentile £388 £413 £363
25th Percentile £434 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +10.05%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £725
90th Percentile £675 £656 £873
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +8.64%
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% +26.57%

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 6,724 6,265 7,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.72% 43.97% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,406 3,898 4,978
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £753
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 68 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £15.90
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% -5.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.12 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +50.85%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -4 20 £488 -22.00% 7
North London - 3 - -
South London -9 2 £480 +1.05%
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 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) JBoss
3 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 50 (42.37%) Azure
2 33 (27.97%) AWS
3 19 (16.10%) GCP
4 16 (13.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (9.32%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (8.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (6.78%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.24%) Cloudflare
10 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.39%) Mimecast
10 4 (3.39%) OpenDNS
11 3 (2.54%) IaaS
11 3 (2.54%) PaaS
11 3 (2.54%) Route 53
12 2 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 77 (65.25%) Firewall
2 46 (38.98%) Network Security
3 33 (27.97%) VPN
4 31 (26.27%) WAN
5 22 (18.64%) TCP/IP
6 20 (16.95%) BGP
7 19 (16.10%) SD-WAN
8 17 (14.41%) DNS
8 17 (14.41%) SSL
9 16 (13.56%) LAN
10 13 (11.02%) OSPF
11 11 (9.32%) Wireless
12 10 (8.47%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (7.63%) IPsec
13 9 (7.63%) VLAN
13 9 (7.63%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (5.93%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (5.93%) Internet
14 7 (5.93%) MPLS
14 7 (5.93%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
1 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.69%) Power BI
3 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (12.71%) Git
2 13 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.47%) GitLab
4 3 (2.54%) JIRA
5 2 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) Metasploit
General
1 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.25%) Finance
3 16 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.08%) Banking
5 6 (5.08%) Legal
5 6 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Military
7 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Local Government
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (32.20%) Network Engineer
2 25 (21.19%) Senior
3 23 (19.49%) Architect
4 17 (14.41%) Security Engineer
5 15 (12.71%) Network Architect
6 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Network Security Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Lead
9 7 (5.93%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.08%) Consultant
10 6 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Security Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Analyst
11 5 (4.24%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.39%) Operations Analyst
12 4 (3.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.39%) REST
3 3 (2.54%) JSON
4 2 (1.69%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.69%) XML
4 2 (1.69%) YAML
4 2 (1.69%) YANG
5 1 (0.85%) ADO
5 1 (0.85%) CrewAI
5 1 (0.85%) CSS
5 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.85%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) LangChain
5 1 (0.85%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.64%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.24%) PKI
2 5 (4.24%) Public Cloud
2 5 (4.24%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.69%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.69%) Life Science
5 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.69%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.69%) SCADA
5 2 (1.69%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.86%) Windows
2 9 (7.63%) Linux
3 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (16.10%) DevOps
4 17 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (14.41%) Incident Response
4 17 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (14.41%) SIEM
5 16 (13.56%) Cloud Security
5 16 (13.56%) SOAR
6 15 (12.71%) High Availability
7 14 (11.86%) Migration
7 14 (11.86%) Network Design
8 12 (10.17%) CI/CD
8 12 (10.17%) Mentoring
9 11 (9.32%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (9.32%) Security Operations
9 11 (9.32%) Zero Trust
10 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (8.47%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 9 (7.63%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.12%) Python
2 17 (14.41%) Bash
3 9 (7.63%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.39%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (3.39%) SQL
5 1 (0.85%) Go
5 1 (0.85%) Java
5 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.85%) Perl
5 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 29 (24.58%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.10%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (13.56%) CCNP
5 8 (6.78%) CISSP
6 7 (5.93%) CCNA
6 7 (5.93%) Degree
7 4 (3.39%) CCIE
7 4 (3.39%) CISM
8 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.85%) CCDP
10 1 (0.85%) CCSE
10 1 (0.85%) CISA
10 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.47%) NIST
2 7 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.24%) GDPR
4 3 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 16 (13.56%) Docker
2 9 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.24%) Squid
3 5 (4.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (3.39%) Snort
5 3 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.69%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.85%) Firmware
7 1 (0.85%) KVM
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (20.34%) Terraform
2 22 (18.64%) Ansible
3 20 (16.95%) FortiGate
4 8 (6.78%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.24%) Nessus
6 4 (3.39%) Nexpose
6 4 (3.39%) Suricata
7 3 (2.54%) Grafana
7 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.69%) CASB
8 2 (1.69%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.85%) Salt
9 1 (0.85%) SCCM
9 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (47.46%) Cisco
2 34 (28.81%) Fortinet
3 30 (25.42%) Microsoft
4 29 (24.58%) CheckPoint
5 23 (19.49%) F5
6 20 (16.95%) Juniper
7 14 (11.86%) Aruba
8 13 (11.02%) Splunk
9 12 (10.17%) Google
10 10 (8.47%) Zscaler
11 8 (6.78%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (5.93%) Qualys
13 6 (5.08%) FireEye
14 5 (4.24%) SolarWinds
14 5 (4.24%) Tenable
15 4 (3.39%) Arista
15 4 (3.39%) Blue Coat
15 4 (3.39%) Carbon Black
15 4 (3.39%) Extreme Networks
15 4 (3.39%) Infoblox