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 26 May 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
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 238 266
Rank change year-on-year -31 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 151 111 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 0.92% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.98% 2.01% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 73 102
10th Percentile £400 £388 £351
25th Percentile £416 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £626 £613 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £736
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £35.80 - -
25th Percentile £35.88 - -
Median hourly rate £37.00 - -
75th Percentile £38.38 - -
90th Percentile £38.60 - -
England median hourly rate £37.00 £17.79 -
% change year-on-year +107.98% - -

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 7,623 5,533 7,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.87% 45.72% 40.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,030 3,601 4,902
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.23% -4.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 97 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +21.70% -11.32%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £80.98 £64.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -43.11%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -25 16 £575 +7.28% 4
South London -9 5 £425 -5.56% 1
West London - 2 £500 - 2
North London - 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 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.99%) Confluence
2 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (39.07%) Azure
2 30 (19.87%) AWS
3 18 (11.92%) GCP
4 10 (6.62%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.64%) GitHub
6 4 (2.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.99%) Mimecast
7 3 (1.99%) Route 53
8 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.66%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.66%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.66%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 108 (71.52%) Firewall
2 60 (39.74%) WAN
3 57 (37.75%) Network Security
4 41 (27.15%) BGP
4 41 (27.15%) VPN
5 30 (19.87%) OSPF
6 29 (19.21%) LAN
7 24 (15.89%) SD-WAN
8 22 (14.57%) MPLS
8 22 (14.57%) Wireless
9 17 (11.26%) Multicast
9 17 (11.26%) VLAN
10 15 (9.93%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (8.61%) NGFW
12 12 (7.95%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (7.95%) DNS
12 12 (7.95%) EIGRP
13 10 (6.62%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (5.96%) SSL
14 9 (5.96%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.66%) MySQL
4 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.31%) JIRA
2 4 (2.65%) Git
3 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (19.87%) Finance
2 23 (15.23%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.95%) Legal
4 10 (6.62%) Financial Institution
4 10 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.31%) Banking
7 5 (3.31%) Law
8 3 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.32%) Local Government
9 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.32%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) German Language
10 1 (0.66%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.66%) Military
10 1 (0.66%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (55.63%) Network Engineer
2 31 (20.53%) Senior
3 29 (19.21%) Security Engineer
4 22 (14.57%) Architect
5 20 (13.25%) Network Security Engineer
6 18 (11.92%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (7.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) Network Architect
9 7 (4.64%) Cisco Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Firewall Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Network Operations Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.97%) Security Manager
11 5 (3.31%) Consultant
11 5 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.31%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.65%) SAML
3 3 (1.99%) REST
4 2 (1.32%) CSS
4 2 (1.32%) HTML
4 2 (1.32%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.66%) JSON
5 1 (0.66%) LDAP
5 1 (0.66%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.66%) OAuth
5 1 (0.66%) XML
5 1 (0.66%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.52%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (4.64%) Security Posture
3 6 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.65%) PKI
6 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Anti-Spyware
8 1 (0.66%) BYOD
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.27%) Linux
2 13 (8.61%) Windows
3 7 (4.64%) Unix
4 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (13.25%) Cloud Security
2 19 (12.58%) Zero Trust
3 18 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (9.93%) Migration
5 14 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (9.27%) Incident Response
5 14 (9.27%) ITIL
5 14 (9.27%) Network Design
5 14 (9.27%) Project Delivery
5 14 (9.27%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (8.61%) Incident Management
6 13 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (8.61%) Validation
7 12 (7.95%) CI/CD
7 12 (7.95%) DevOps
8 11 (7.28%) Agile
9 10 (6.62%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (6.62%) Load Balancing
9 10 (6.62%) Mentoring
10 9 (5.96%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.52%) Python
2 11 (7.28%) PowerShell
3 9 (5.96%) Bash
4 3 (1.99%) SQL
5 2 (1.32%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (18.54%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (16.56%) CCNP
3 21 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.91%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.95%) Degree
5 5 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.65%) CCNA
6 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.99%) CCSE
7 3 (1.99%) CISSP
7 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.32%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.66%) CCIE
9 1 (0.66%) CCSP
9 1 (0.66%) CISM
9 1 (0.66%) CRISC
9 1 (0.66%) CWNA
9 1 (0.66%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.66%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) NIST
2 4 (2.65%) GRC
3 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.99%) NIST 800
3 3 (1.99%) SLA
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) NCSC
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.99%) Firmware
4 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.66%) Docker
5 1 (0.66%) IAG
5 1 (0.66%) NFS
5 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (18.54%) Ansible
2 24 (15.89%) FortiGate
3 21 (13.91%) Terraform
4 13 (8.61%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.62%) Grafana
6 5 (3.31%) Salt
7 4 (2.65%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.99%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (1.99%) Consul
9 2 (1.32%) SCCM
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.66%) QRadar
10 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 95 (62.91%) Cisco
2 41 (27.15%) CheckPoint
3 38 (25.17%) Fortinet
4 37 (24.50%) F5
5 24 (15.89%) Aruba
5 24 (15.89%) Juniper
6 22 (14.57%) Arista
7 20 (13.25%) Zscaler
8 18 (11.92%) Microsoft
9 10 (6.62%) Infoblox
9 10 (6.62%) Splunk
10 7 (4.64%) Meraki
10 7 (4.64%) ServiceNow
11 6 (3.97%) BigPanda
12 5 (3.31%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.65%) Google
14 3 (1.99%) Dell
14 3 (1.99%) VMware
15 2 (1.32%) Forcepoint
15 2 (1.32%) Symantec