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 12 August 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 246 246
Rank change year-on-year -40 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 157 125 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 0.92% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 1.84% 2.00% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 77 108
10th Percentile £333 £388 £387
25th Percentile £419 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £614 £613 £625
90th Percentile £738 £657 £650
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £36.00 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.31 - -
90th Percentile £78.75 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £83.32 -
% change year-on-year -27.98% - -

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 8,510 6,236 6,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.23% 45.87% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,546 4,056 4,733
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 122 87
10th Percentile £18.68 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.93 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.93% -4.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.60 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.30
% change year-on-year +35.15% -16.98% -19.21%

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 12 August 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 12 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Palo Alto in London

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 12 August 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 -36 16 £550 +2.61% 4
South London -7 7 £450 -16.28%
West London -17 3 £525 +5.00% 1
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 (1.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 64 (40.76%) Azure
2 36 (22.93%) AWS
3 18 (11.46%) GCP
4 14 (8.92%) GitHub
5 11 (7.01%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.55%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.91%) OCI
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.27%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.27%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.64%) SaaS
10 1 (0.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 126 (80.25%) Firewall
2 68 (43.31%) WAN
3 64 (40.76%) Network Security
4 53 (33.76%) VPN
5 44 (28.03%) BGP
6 28 (17.83%) OSPF
7 25 (15.92%) LAN
8 23 (14.65%) VLAN
8 23 (14.65%) Wireless
9 22 (14.01%) MPLS
9 22 (14.01%) SD-WAN
10 20 (12.74%) NGFW
11 19 (12.10%) Multicast
12 17 (10.83%) DNS
13 14 (8.92%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (8.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 12 (7.64%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (7.64%) Cisco IOS
14 12 (7.64%) DHCP
14 12 (7.64%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.64%) MySQL
1 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) Git
3 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (16.56%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.29%) Finance
3 15 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.10%) Financial Institution
5 6 (3.82%) Legal
6 5 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.18%) Retail
7 4 (2.55%) Banking
7 4 (2.55%) Local Government
7 4 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Law
9 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.64%) German Language
10 1 (0.64%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.64%) Military
10 1 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 95 (60.51%) Network Engineer
2 33 (21.02%) Security Engineer
3 28 (17.83%) Senior
4 22 (14.01%) Architect
5 20 (12.74%) Network Security Engineer
6 18 (11.46%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) Security Architect
8 10 (6.37%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Consultant
8 10 (6.37%) Network Architect
9 9 (5.73%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Firewall Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) IT Consultant
11 7 (4.46%) IT Support
11 7 (4.46%) Security Manager
11 7 (4.46%) Support Consultant
12 5 (3.18%) Senior Cisco Engineer
12 5 (3.18%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.46%) SAML
2 5 (3.18%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.27%) eBPF
4 1 (0.64%) LDAP
4 1 (0.64%) OAuth
4 1 (0.64%) REST
4 1 (0.64%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.11%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (3.18%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.91%) IoT
6 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.27%) CCTV
7 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
7 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.27%) PKI
8 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.64%) BYOD
8 1 (0.64%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Windows
2 4 (2.55%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.64%) Unix
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.47%) Zero Trust
2 23 (14.65%) Cloud Security
2 23 (14.65%) Migration
3 19 (12.10%) Project Delivery
4 18 (11.46%) Validation
5 17 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (9.55%) Load Balancing
7 13 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (8.28%) Network Design
8 12 (7.64%) ITIL
8 12 (7.64%) Runbook
9 11 (7.01%) Agile
9 11 (7.01%) CI/CD
9 11 (7.01%) ITSM
9 11 (7.01%) Security Architecture
10 10 (6.37%) Mentoring
11 9 (5.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (5.10%) Low Latency
12 8 (5.10%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.93%) Python
2 10 (6.37%) Bash
3 6 (3.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.27%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (21.66%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (19.75%) CCNP
3 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.19%) SC Cleared
5 15 (9.55%) Degree
6 6 (3.82%) CCNA
7 4 (2.55%) CCSE
7 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.91%) CCIE
8 3 (1.91%) CISSP
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.27%) CISM
9 2 (1.27%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.27%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.64%) CRISC
10 1 (0.64%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.37%) NIST
2 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.82%) NIST 800
3 4 (2.55%) GRC
4 3 (1.91%) GDPR
5 2 (1.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.64%) NCSC
6 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.27%) Firmware
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.64%) Docker
4 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.64%) IAG
4 1 (0.64%) NFS
4 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (19.11%) Ansible
2 29 (18.47%) Terraform
3 25 (15.92%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.82%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.18%) Grafana
7 3 (1.91%) Consul
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.64%) SCCM
9 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 93 (59.24%) Cisco
2 51 (32.48%) Fortinet
3 40 (25.48%) F5
4 34 (21.66%) CheckPoint
5 32 (20.38%) Juniper
6 28 (17.83%) Zscaler
7 22 (14.01%) Arista
8 15 (9.55%) Aruba
9 12 (7.64%) Infoblox
10 10 (6.37%) Microsoft
11 7 (4.46%) Meraki
12 5 (3.18%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.55%) Google
13 4 (2.55%) Splunk
13 4 (2.55%) VMware
14 3 (1.91%) Blue Coat
14 3 (1.91%) Dell
14 3 (1.91%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (1.91%) Riverbed
14 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow