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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 239 250
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +139
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 112 155 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 0.96% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 1.81% 2.21% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 122 142
10th Percentile £404 £401 £420
25th Percentile £436 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -16.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £743
90th Percentile £651 £650 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -

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 6,195 7,007 8,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.12% 43.39% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 4,543 6,289
10th Percentile £325 £313 £315
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 78 113
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.88
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.88 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

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

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 17 September 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

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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 17 September 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 +5 26 £536 +5.10% 13
South London -3 5 £450 -
West London -9 3 £500 +2.56% 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 (1.79%) nginx
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.07%) Azure
2 28 (25.00%) AWS
3 16 (14.29%) GCP
4 10 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (8.04%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (8.04%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (8.04%) Amazon S3
5 9 (8.04%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.68%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.68%) IaaS
8 3 (2.68%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.68%) OpenDNS
8 3 (2.68%) PaaS
9 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 83 (74.11%) Firewall
2 36 (32.14%) VPN
3 33 (29.46%) WAN
4 32 (28.57%) Network Security
5 24 (21.43%) SD-WAN
6 22 (19.64%) DNS
6 22 (19.64%) LAN
7 21 (18.75%) BGP
8 20 (17.86%) OSPF
8 20 (17.86%) TCP/IP
9 13 (11.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 13 (11.61%) MPLS
9 13 (11.61%) SSL
10 12 (10.71%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (10.71%) NGFW
11 10 (8.93%) IPsec
12 9 (8.04%) Multicast
13 8 (7.14%) VLAN
14 7 (6.25%) VXLAN
14 7 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
1 2 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (12.50%) Git
2 12 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.82%) GitLab
4 5 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.79%) JIRA
6 1 (0.89%) Metasploit
General
1 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.86%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.14%) Law
5 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.25%) Banking
6 5 (4.46%) Legal
7 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Military
8 1 (0.89%) Games
8 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (36.61%) Network Engineer
2 19 (16.96%) Senior
3 18 (16.07%) Security Engineer
4 15 (13.39%) Consultant
5 12 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Architect
6 9 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Network Architect
7 8 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Security Consultant
8 7 (6.25%) Lead
8 7 (6.25%) Network Support
8 7 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.25%) ADO
2 4 (3.57%) JSON
3 2 (1.79%) REST
3 2 (1.79%) YAML
4 1 (0.89%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.89%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.89%) LangChain
4 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.25%) Anti-Spyware
2 7 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.68%) PKI
4 3 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.79%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.93%) Windows
2 5 (4.46%) Linux
3 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (13.39%) DevOps
3 15 (13.39%) Incident Response
3 15 (13.39%) Migration
3 15 (13.39%) Zero Trust
4 14 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 13 (11.61%) Agile
5 13 (11.61%) Network Monitoring
5 13 (11.61%) SIEM
5 13 (11.61%) SOAR
6 11 (9.82%) CI/CD
6 11 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.82%) Security Operations
6 11 (9.82%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (8.93%) Kalman Filter
8 9 (8.04%) High Availability
9 8 (7.14%) Change Management
9 8 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.68%) Python
2 14 (12.50%) Bash
3 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.46%) SQL
4 3 (2.68%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.89%) Go
5 1 (0.89%) Java
5 1 (0.89%) Perl
5 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.82%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (7.14%) CCNP
5 5 (4.46%) CCNA
5 5 (4.46%) Degree
5 5 (4.46%) JNCIA
6 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.68%) CCIE
7 3 (2.68%) CISSP
8 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.79%) SANS
9 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.89%) CCDE
9 1 (0.89%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (0.89%) CRISC
9 1 (0.89%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.89%) ISACA
9 1 (0.89%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) NIST
2 6 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.68%) GDPR
4 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (11.61%) Docker
2 10 (8.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.57%) Squid
3 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.68%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.68%) Snort
4 3 (2.68%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.79%) Firmware
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.89%) KVM
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (24.11%) Terraform
2 25 (22.32%) Ansible
3 7 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.36%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.57%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (3.57%) Nessus
6 3 (2.68%) Nexpose
6 3 (2.68%) Suricata
7 2 (1.79%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.79%) Icinga
7 2 (1.79%) Nagios
7 2 (1.79%) Observium
7 2 (1.79%) SCCM
8 1 (0.89%) CASB
8 1 (0.89%) QRadar
8 1 (0.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (52.68%) Cisco
2 30 (26.79%) CheckPoint
3 29 (25.89%) Fortinet
4 25 (22.32%) Juniper
5 24 (21.43%) F5
5 24 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 10 (8.93%) Zscaler
7 9 (8.04%) Google
7 9 (8.04%) Infoblox
7 9 (8.04%) Meraki
7 9 (8.04%) SolarWinds
8 8 (7.14%) Splunk
8 8 (7.14%) VMware
9 7 (6.25%) Aruba
9 7 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (5.36%) Arista
10 6 (5.36%) Qualys
11 5 (4.46%) FireEye
12 4 (3.57%) Tenable
13 3 (2.68%) Carbon Black