Palo Alto Contracts in London

Palo Alto
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Palo Alto over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 316 432
Rank change year-on-year +57 +116 -46
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 137 180 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.66% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 1.90% 1.71% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 131 120
10th Percentile £335 £400 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £575
90th Percentile £863 £823 £676
England median daily rate £520 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £62.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year +1.61% -10.21% +11.37%

All Vendors
London

Palo Alto is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,193 10,541 14,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.62% 38.93% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,931 7,474 10,332
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 129 187
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.11 £16.18
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £21.45
Median hourly rate £23.80 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% -12.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £36.00 £57.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £62.25 £70.00 £62.70
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +40 14 £600 +23.08% 6
West London +19 7 £525 -16.00% 2
East London - 2 £520 - 1
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 2 (1.46%) Confluence
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.46%) nginx
2 1 (0.73%) IIS
2 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.73%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (5.11%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.63%) Azure
2 28 (20.44%) AWS
3 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.38%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.65%) Asana
5 5 (3.65%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.65%) OCI
5 5 (3.65%) Slack
5 5 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.92%) Route 53
6 4 (2.92%) SaaS
6 4 (2.92%) WhatsApp
7 3 (2.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.19%) GCP
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 101 (73.72%) Firewall
2 59 (43.07%) LAN
2 59 (43.07%) WAN
3 58 (42.34%) BGP
4 54 (39.42%) OSPF
5 52 (37.96%) VPN
6 45 (32.85%) Network Security
7 44 (32.12%) Wireless
8 38 (27.74%) Cisco ASA
9 33 (24.09%) IPsec
10 28 (20.44%) MPLS
11 26 (18.98%) WLAN
12 25 (18.25%) DNS
13 19 (13.87%) SD-WAN
14 17 (12.41%) DHCP
14 17 (12.41%) EIGRP
14 17 (12.41%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (10.95%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (10.95%) HSRP
16 14 (10.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Git
2 7 (5.11%) JIRA
3 4 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.46%) GitLab
General
1 26 (18.98%) Finance
2 22 (16.06%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.11%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.19%) Legal
6 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Banking
7 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.73%) Publishing
8 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (52.55%) Network Engineer
2 23 (16.79%) Senior
3 20 (14.60%) Network Specialist
4 15 (10.95%) Security Engineer
5 14 (10.22%) Architect
5 14 (10.22%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) Cisco Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Network Architect
8 6 (4.38%) Design Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Network Design Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 5 (3.65%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) IT Support
9 5 (3.65%) Support Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) IT Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) SOC Architect
10 4 (2.92%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.11%) 802.1X
1 7 (5.11%) JSON
1 7 (5.11%) NETCONF
1 7 (5.11%) XML
1 7 (5.11%) YANG
2 3 (2.19%) SAML
3 2 (1.46%) Jinja
3 2 (1.46%) LDAP
3 2 (1.46%) Node.js
3 2 (1.46%) RESTful
4 1 (0.73%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.20%) Data Centre
2 26 (18.98%) PKI
3 5 (3.65%) Clustering
3 5 (3.65%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.65%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.92%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.46%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.46%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.73%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.73%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.41%) Windows
2 9 (6.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.65%) Linux
4 3 (2.19%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.46%) CentOS
5 2 (1.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.73%) VMS
6 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.25%) Migration
2 24 (17.52%) Change Management
3 22 (16.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (13.87%) Agile
5 19 (13.87%) Network Design
6 17 (12.41%) Threat Management
7 15 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (9.49%) High Availability
9 12 (8.76%) Investment Management
9 12 (8.76%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (8.03%) DevOps
10 11 (8.03%) Mentoring
10 11 (8.03%) Network Architecture
11 10 (7.30%) Load Balancing
11 10 (7.30%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
12 9 (6.57%) Change Control
12 9 (6.57%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.52%) Python
2 8 (5.84%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 38 (27.74%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (26.28%) CCNP
3 27 (19.71%) Security Cleared
4 26 (18.98%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.76%) CCNA
6 11 (8.03%) CCIE
7 9 (6.57%) Degree
8 7 (5.11%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.65%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.65%) CCDP
9 5 (3.65%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.92%) CISSP
11 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.46%) CISM
11 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.73%) CISA
12 1 (0.73%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) NCSC
1 4 (2.92%) SLA
2 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.73%) ISA99
4 1 (0.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (8.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.65%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.46%) Firmware
3 2 (1.46%) Squid
3 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.73%) KVM
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (19.71%) FortiGate
2 16 (11.68%) Terraform
3 6 (4.38%) Ansible
4 5 (3.65%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (2.92%) CASB
5 4 (2.92%) CSIRT
6 3 (2.19%) Kibana
6 3 (2.19%) Puppet
7 2 (1.46%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.46%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.46%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.73%) Nessus
8 1 (0.73%) SCCM
8 1 (0.73%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (62.04%) Cisco
2 42 (30.66%) Fortinet
3 41 (29.93%) Juniper
4 28 (20.44%) CheckPoint
5 27 (19.71%) F5
6 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
7 14 (10.22%) Meraki
8 13 (9.49%) Aruba
9 12 (8.76%) Extreme Networks
9 12 (8.76%) Infoblox
9 12 (8.76%) Zscaler
10 11 (8.03%) SolarWinds
11 10 (7.30%) VMware
12 7 (5.11%) Arista
13 6 (4.38%) Dell
13 6 (4.38%) Google
14 5 (3.65%) Nokia
15 4 (2.92%) Blue Coat
15 4 (2.92%) Riverbed
16 3 (2.19%) Splunk