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 November 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
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 224 255
Rank change year-on-year -35 +31 +118
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 114 162 163
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.04% 0.81%
As % of the Vendors category 1.76% 2.39% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 119 111
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.30% +17.40%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £745
90th Percentile £660 £650 £875
England median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -1.91%
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% +36.42%

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 6,489 6,788 8,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.46% 43.76% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,185 4,264 5,763
10th Percentile £325 £313 £304
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 64 120
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.73 £16.99
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% -12.42% +61.00%
75th Percentile £37.12 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.40 £97.75 £83.55
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.24% -25.84% +74.51%

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 November 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 12 November 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 0 21 £475 -14.41% 42
South London -5 4 £480 +1.05%
West London -13 3 £500 +1.27% 1
East London - 1 £525 - 1
North London - 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 2 (1.75%) nginx
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 43 (37.72%) Azure
2 31 (27.19%) AWS
3 18 (15.79%) GCP
4 13 (11.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (9.65%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.77%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (8.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (7.02%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.39%) Cloudflare
10 4 (3.51%) Mimecast
10 4 (3.51%) OpenDNS
11 3 (2.63%) IaaS
11 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.63%) PaaS
11 3 (2.63%) SaaS
12 2 (1.75%) GitHub
12 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 80 (70.18%) Firewall
2 40 (35.09%) Network Security
3 37 (32.46%) VPN
4 29 (25.44%) WAN
5 23 (20.18%) BGP
6 21 (18.42%) TCP/IP
7 20 (17.54%) DNS
8 18 (15.79%) LAN
9 17 (14.91%) OSPF
10 16 (14.04%) SD-WAN
11 15 (13.16%) SSL
12 12 (10.53%) VLAN
13 11 (9.65%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (8.77%) IPsec
15 9 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
16 8 (7.02%) MPLS
17 7 (6.14%) DHCP
17 7 (6.14%) VXLAN
18 6 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
18 6 (5.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.75%) Power BI
2 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.88%) Redis
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (14.91%) Git
2 13 (11.40%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.53%) GitLab
4 3 (2.63%) JIRA
4 3 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.88%) Metasploit
General
1 21 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Finance
3 14 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Banking
5 6 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Law
6 4 (3.51%) Military
7 3 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Games
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (30.70%) Network Engineer
2 24 (21.05%) Senior
3 18 (15.79%) Security Engineer
4 16 (14.04%) Architect
5 12 (10.53%) Consultant
6 11 (9.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Network Architect
7 8 (7.02%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Lead
8 6 (5.26%) Security Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Analyst
9 5 (4.39%) Security Consultant
9 5 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Network Consultant
10 4 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) REST
2 2 (1.75%) JSON
2 2 (1.75%) YAML
3 1 (0.88%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.88%) ADO
3 1 (0.88%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.88%) LangChain
3 1 (0.88%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.88%) OpenConfig
3 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.88%) XML
3 1 (0.88%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.42%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.39%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.51%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.51%) PKI
3 4 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.75%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.75%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (1.75%) Life Science
5 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.75%) SCADA
5 2 (1.75%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.65%) Windows
2 7 (6.14%) Linux
3 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (15.79%) SIEM
4 17 (14.91%) DevOps
5 16 (14.04%) Incident Response
5 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (13.16%) Cloud Security
6 15 (13.16%) Zero Trust
7 14 (12.28%) Migration
7 14 (12.28%) SOAR
8 13 (11.40%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (11.40%) High Availability
9 12 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.53%) Network Design
9 12 (10.53%) Security Operations
10 10 (8.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (8.77%) Mentoring
10 10 (8.77%) Network Monitoring
11 9 (7.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 8 (7.02%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.82%) Python
2 17 (14.91%) Bash
3 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.51%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.63%) SQL
6 2 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (0.88%) Go
7 1 (0.88%) Java
7 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.44%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.04%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (10.53%) CCNP
5 10 (8.77%) CISSP
6 6 (5.26%) CCNA
6 6 (5.26%) Degree
7 4 (3.51%) CCIE
7 4 (3.51%) CISM
7 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (1.75%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.75%) SANS
10 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.88%) CCDE
10 1 (0.88%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (0.88%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) NIST
2 9 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.26%) GDPR
4 3 (2.63%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) Docker
2 10 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.39%) Squid
4 4 (3.51%) Snort
4 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.63%) Firmware
5 3 (2.63%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.75%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.88%) KVM
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (23.68%) Ansible
2 23 (20.18%) Terraform
3 15 (13.16%) FortiGate
4 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
6 5 (4.39%) Nessus
7 4 (3.51%) Nexpose
7 4 (3.51%) Suricata
8 2 (1.75%) CASB
8 2 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.75%) Grafana
8 2 (1.75%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.88%) Icinga
9 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.88%) Nagios
9 1 (0.88%) Observium
9 1 (0.88%) QRadar
9 1 (0.88%) SCCM
9 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (50.00%) Cisco
2 34 (29.82%) Fortinet
3 29 (25.44%) Microsoft
4 26 (22.81%) F5
5 24 (21.05%) CheckPoint
6 23 (20.18%) Juniper
7 12 (10.53%) Splunk
8 11 (9.65%) Google
9 10 (8.77%) Zscaler
10 9 (7.89%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (6.14%) Arista
11 7 (6.14%) Qualys
11 7 (6.14%) VMware
12 6 (5.26%) FireEye
12 6 (5.26%) SolarWinds
13 5 (4.39%) Infoblox
13 5 (4.39%) Meraki
13 5 (4.39%) Tenable
14 4 (3.51%) Aruba
14 4 (3.51%) Blue Coat