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 4 March 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
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 221 262
Rank change year-on-year -42 +41 +107
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 135 131 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.00% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.88% 2.26% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 87 85
10th Percentile £356 £407 £305
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £725
90th Percentile £688 £750 £875
England median daily rate £481 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.55% +6.54%
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% +4.35%

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 7,167 5,801 7,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.61% 44.09% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,728 3,684 4,939
10th Percentile £350 £320 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 79 144
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.45 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.99 £16.97
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +36.00% -1.40%
75th Percentile £41.75 £59.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.49 £80.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £25.28
% change year-on-year -23.43% +24.02% -27.79%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -13 15 £550 -12.00% 10
South London -14 6 £425 -10.53% 1
North London - 4 - -
East London 0 1 £525 +1.94%
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 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) JBoss
3 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.74%) Azure
2 34 (25.19%) AWS
3 18 (13.33%) GCP
4 11 (8.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (3.70%) Cloudflare
7 5 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.22%) GitHub
8 3 (2.22%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.22%) OpenDNS
8 3 (2.22%) Route 53
9 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 89 (65.93%) Firewall
2 54 (40.00%) Network Security
3 47 (34.81%) WAN
4 44 (32.59%) VPN
5 32 (23.70%) BGP
6 27 (20.00%) LAN
7 23 (17.04%) OSPF
8 21 (15.56%) SD-WAN
8 21 (15.56%) Wireless
9 19 (14.07%) MPLS
10 16 (11.85%) Cisco ASA
11 15 (11.11%) TCP/IP
12 13 (9.63%) DNS
12 13 (9.63%) SSL
13 12 (8.89%) NGFW
13 12 (8.89%) VLAN
13 12 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (8.15%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (6.67%) EIGRP
15 9 (6.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
1 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Git
2 7 (5.19%) GitLab
3 5 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.48%) JIRA
4 2 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.74%) Metasploit
General
1 27 (20.00%) Finance
2 24 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.15%) Legal
6 9 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.19%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.70%) Law
10 4 (2.96%) Military
11 3 (2.22%) Banking
12 2 (1.48%) Local Government
12 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (40.74%) Network Engineer
2 33 (24.44%) Senior
3 25 (18.52%) Architect
4 15 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 14 (10.37%) Network Architect
6 12 (8.89%) Senior Network Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) Network Security Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Security Architect
10 5 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Firewall Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Network Operations Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Network Specialist
10 5 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Consultant
11 4 (2.96%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.44%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.70%) REST
3 2 (1.48%) CSS
3 2 (1.48%) HTML
3 2 (1.48%) JSON
3 2 (1.48%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.48%) SAML
3 2 (1.48%) XML
3 2 (1.48%) YANG
4 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.74%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.74%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.93%) Security Posture
3 7 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.19%) PKI
4 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.48%) Life Science
7 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.74%) Anti-Spyware
8 1 (0.74%) BYOD
8 1 (0.74%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.74%) SCADA
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.11%) Linux
2 14 (10.37%) Windows
3 7 (5.19%) Unix
4 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (13.33%) Incident Response
3 17 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (11.85%) Cloud Security
4 16 (11.85%) Network Design
5 14 (10.37%) Migration
5 14 (10.37%) Zero Trust
6 13 (9.63%) High Availability
6 13 (9.63%) SIEM
7 12 (8.89%) DevOps
7 12 (8.89%) Incident Management
7 12 (8.89%) Mentoring
7 12 (8.89%) SOAR
8 11 (8.15%) CI/CD
8 11 (8.15%) ITIL
8 11 (8.15%) Network Monitoring
8 11 (8.15%) Observability
8 11 (8.15%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.96%) Python
2 10 (7.41%) Bash
2 10 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.96%) SQL
4 3 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.48%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (16.30%) CCNP
5 14 (10.37%) Degree
6 10 (7.41%) CCNA
7 8 (5.93%) CISSP
8 4 (2.96%) CISM
8 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.22%) CCIE
9 3 (2.22%) CCSE
9 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (1.48%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.74%) CCSM
11 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.93%) NIST
2 6 (4.44%) GDPR
2 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.96%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.48%) NCSC
4 2 (1.48%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
5 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
5 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.41%) Docker
2 9 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.22%) Snort
4 3 (2.22%) Squid
4 3 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.48%) Firmware
5 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.48%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.74%) IAG
Systems Management
1 23 (17.04%) Ansible
2 22 (16.30%) FortiGate
3 15 (11.11%) Terraform
4 10 (7.41%) Grafana
4 10 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.70%) Salt
6 4 (2.96%) Nessus
7 3 (2.22%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.22%) Nexpose
7 3 (2.22%) Suricata
8 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.48%) VxRail
9 1 (0.74%) CASB
9 1 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.74%) QRadar
9 1 (0.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 86 (63.70%) Cisco
2 40 (29.63%) CheckPoint
3 33 (24.44%) F5
4 32 (23.70%) Fortinet
5 26 (19.26%) Juniper
6 24 (17.78%) Aruba
6 24 (17.78%) Microsoft
7 17 (12.59%) Splunk
8 12 (8.89%) Arista
9 9 (6.67%) Zscaler
10 8 (5.93%) Infoblox
10 8 (5.93%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.93%) SolarWinds
11 6 (4.44%) BigPanda
11 6 (4.44%) Google
11 6 (4.44%) Meraki
12 4 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (2.96%) VMware
13 3 (2.22%) Blue Coat
13 3 (2.22%) Dell