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 6 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
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 226 278
Rank change year-on-year -44 +52 +91
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 112 159 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.01% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.67% 2.29% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 113 98
10th Percentile £389 £413 £379
25th Percentile £423 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.01% +15.40%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £745
90th Percentile £653 £656 £883
England median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.10% - +0.96%
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% +34.33%

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 6,690 6,934 7,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.56% 44.12% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 4,366 5,490
10th Percentile £329 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 62 108
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.64 £16.96
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -5.08% +50.79%
75th Percentile £41.75 £65.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.32 £91.33 £86.33
England median hourly rate £23.83 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.69% -26.97% +71.15%

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 6 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 6 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 -6 19 £475 -24.00% 5
South London -8 4 £480 +1.05% 1
West London -15 3 £500 +1.27% 2
North London - 3 - -
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 1 (0.89%) JBoss
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 42 (37.50%) Azure
2 30 (26.79%) AWS
3 20 (17.86%) GCP
4 13 (11.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (9.82%) Amazon S3
5 11 (9.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.93%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.36%) Cloudflare
9 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.46%) OpenDNS
10 4 (3.57%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.68%) IaaS
11 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.68%) PaaS
12 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 77 (68.75%) Firewall
2 45 (40.18%) Network Security
3 34 (30.36%) VPN
4 26 (23.21%) WAN
5 21 (18.75%) BGP
6 19 (16.96%) DNS
7 18 (16.07%) TCP/IP
8 16 (14.29%) SD-WAN
9 15 (13.39%) SSL
10 14 (12.50%) LAN
10 14 (12.50%) OSPF
11 10 (8.93%) Cisco Nexus
12 9 (8.04%) IPsec
12 9 (8.04%) VLAN
13 8 (7.14%) MPLS
14 7 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (6.25%) Internet
15 6 (5.36%) DHCP
15 6 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (5.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.79%) Power BI
1 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (14.29%) Git
2 13 (11.61%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.93%) GitLab
4 3 (2.68%) JIRA
4 3 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.89%) Metasploit
General
1 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.96%) Finance
3 13 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.36%) Banking
4 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Law
6 4 (3.57%) Military
7 1 (0.89%) Games
7 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Legal
7 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Retail
7 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (29.46%) Network Engineer
2 24 (21.43%) Senior
3 17 (15.18%) Architect
3 17 (15.18%) Security Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Network Architect
5 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Consultant
7 8 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Analyst
8 6 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Lead
8 6 (5.36%) Security Architect
8 6 (5.36%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Operations Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Security Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Security Operations Analyst
9 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.57%) REST
2 3 (2.68%) JSON
3 2 (1.79%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.79%) XML
3 2 (1.79%) YAML
3 2 (1.79%) YANG
4 1 (0.89%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.89%) ADO
4 1 (0.89%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.89%) LangChain
4 1 (0.89%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.46%) Public Cloud
2 5 (4.46%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.57%) PKI
3 4 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.79%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.79%) Life Science
5 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.79%) SCADA
5 2 (1.79%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.89%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Windows
2 9 (8.04%) Linux
3 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.89%) VMS
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (16.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (16.07%) DevOps
3 18 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (16.07%) SIEM
4 17 (15.18%) Incident Response
4 17 (15.18%) SOAR
5 15 (13.39%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (12.50%) Migration
7 13 (11.61%) Cloud Security
7 13 (11.61%) High Availability
7 13 (11.61%) Security Operations
8 12 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 12 (10.71%) Zero Trust
9 11 (9.82%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 11 (9.82%) Network Design
10 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (8.93%) Mentoring
11 9 (8.04%) Agile
11 9 (8.04%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.14%) Python
2 18 (16.07%) Bash
3 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.46%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.68%) SQL
6 2 (1.79%) Perl
7 1 (0.89%) Go
7 1 (0.89%) Java
7 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.07%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (13.39%) CCNP
5 9 (8.04%) CISSP
6 8 (7.14%) CCNA
7 6 (5.36%) Degree
8 5 (4.46%) CCIE
9 4 (3.57%) CISM
9 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.79%) SANS
11 1 (0.89%) CEH
11 1 (0.89%) CISA
11 1 (0.89%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.89%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.89%) PMP
11 1 (0.89%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) NIST
2 8 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.36%) GDPR
4 3 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.89%) PMO
6 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 17 (15.18%) Docker
2 9 (8.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.36%) Squid
4 5 (4.46%) Snort
5 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.89%) Firmware
7 1 (0.89%) KVM
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (20.54%) Terraform
2 22 (19.64%) Ansible
3 15 (13.39%) FortiGate
4 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
5 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (5.36%) Nessus
7 5 (4.46%) Nexpose
7 5 (4.46%) Suricata
8 2 (1.79%) CASB
8 2 (1.79%) Grafana
8 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.89%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.89%) QRadar
9 1 (0.89%) SCCM
9 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (47.32%) Cisco
2 33 (29.46%) Fortinet
3 29 (25.89%) Microsoft
4 26 (23.21%) CheckPoint
5 23 (20.54%) F5
6 21 (18.75%) Juniper
7 13 (11.61%) Google
7 13 (11.61%) Splunk
8 11 (9.82%) Zscaler
9 10 (8.93%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (7.14%) Qualys
11 7 (6.25%) FireEye
12 6 (5.36%) Arista
13 5 (4.46%) Aruba
13 5 (4.46%) Blue Coat
13 5 (4.46%) Carbon Black
13 5 (4.46%) Infoblox
13 5 (4.46%) SolarWinds
13 5 (4.46%) Tenable
13 5 (4.46%) VMware