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 14 October 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
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 253 227
Rank change year-on-year -52 -26 +28
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 160 109 168
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 0.81% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 1.82% 1.75% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 65 127
10th Percentile £355 £409 £413
25th Percentile £450 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £638
90th Percentile £745 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £51.15 £81.63 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £82.19 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £88.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £94.69 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £94.88 -
England median hourly rate £77.25 £71.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% +59.44% -31.80%

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 8,798 6,219 6,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.90% 46.43% 43.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,741 4,045 4,396
10th Percentile £340 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £740 £750
England median daily rate £515 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.58% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 118 75
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.20 £18.28
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -28.14% -13.58%
75th Percentile £63.00 £38.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.13 £87.80
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -21.35%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -24 20 £680 +39.49% 17
South London -11 6 £450 -6.25%
West London -21 5 £450 -10.00% 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 2 (1.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 68 (42.50%) Azure
2 45 (28.13%) AWS
3 14 (8.75%) GCP
4 13 (8.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 11 (6.88%) GitHub
6 10 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.63%) AWS Direct Connect
8 5 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.88%) OCI
11 2 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.25%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.25%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.25%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.63%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 125 (78.13%) Firewall
2 72 (45.00%) Network Security
2 72 (45.00%) WAN
3 62 (38.75%) VPN
4 40 (25.00%) BGP
5 31 (19.38%) SD-WAN
6 30 (18.75%) OSPF
7 27 (16.88%) MPLS
8 25 (15.63%) LAN
9 22 (13.75%) NGFW
10 20 (12.50%) VLAN
10 20 (12.50%) Wireless
11 16 (10.00%) DNS
12 13 (8.13%) IPsec
13 12 (7.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 11 (6.88%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (6.25%) DHCP
15 10 (6.25%) TCP/IP
15 10 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (5.63%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (3.75%) JIRA
2 5 (3.13%) Git
3 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (20.63%) Finance
2 18 (11.25%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.75%) Banking
5 8 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.75%) Legal
6 6 (3.75%) Local Government
7 5 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.50%) Retail
9 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Law
10 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.25%) Military
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) German Language
11 1 (0.63%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 88 (55.00%) Network Engineer
2 40 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 26 (16.25%) Architect
4 24 (15.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 19 (11.88%) Senior
6 16 (10.00%) Network Architect
7 14 (8.75%) Consultant
7 14 (8.75%) Firewall Engineer
7 14 (8.75%) IT Support
8 13 (8.13%) Senior Network Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (6.88%) Security Architect
11 10 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
12 9 (5.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 9 (5.63%) IT Consultant
12 9 (5.63%) Support Consultant
13 8 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
14 7 (4.38%) Network Support Engineer
14 7 (4.38%) Security Manager
14 7 (4.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.13%) Terraform
2 6 (3.75%) SAML
3 5 (3.13%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.25%) eBPF
4 2 (1.25%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.63%) JSON
5 1 (0.63%) LDAP
5 1 (0.63%) OAuth
5 1 (0.63%) REST
5 1 (0.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 44 (27.50%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.88%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.88%) IoT
6 2 (1.25%) CCTV
6 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.25%) NHS
6 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.25%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.63%) PDA
7 1 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (1.88%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (29.38%) Zero Trust
2 27 (16.88%) Migration
3 25 (15.63%) Cloud Security
4 21 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (11.88%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (11.88%) Validation
6 18 (11.25%) Project Delivery
7 17 (10.63%) Security Architecture
8 16 (10.00%) Incident Response
8 16 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (9.38%) Runbook
10 13 (8.13%) Load Balancing
11 12 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (7.50%) SIEM
12 11 (6.88%) Network Design
12 11 (6.88%) Network Segmentation
12 11 (6.88%) Security Operations
13 10 (6.25%) Agile
13 10 (6.25%) CI/CD
14 9 (5.63%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.50%) Python
2 12 (7.50%) Bash
3 11 (6.88%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (20.63%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (18.75%) CCNP
3 20 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 19 (11.88%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.50%) Degree
6 6 (3.75%) CCIE
6 6 (3.75%) CCNA
7 5 (3.13%) CCSE
7 5 (3.13%) CISSP
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.25%) CCSP
8 2 (1.25%) CISM
8 2 (1.25%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.25%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.63%) CCSA
9 1 (0.63%) CRISC
9 1 (0.63%) CWNA
9 1 (0.63%) GIAC
9 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (6.25%) NIST
2 6 (3.75%) NIST 800
3 4 (2.50%) SLA
4 3 (1.88%) GDPR
4 3 (1.88%) GRC
4 3 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 8 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.88%) Firmware
4 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 28 (17.50%) Ansible
3 6 (3.75%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.25%) Consul
5 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 92 (57.50%) Cisco
2 58 (36.25%) Fortinet
3 35 (21.88%) Zscaler
4 28 (17.50%) F5
5 26 (16.25%) Juniper
6 23 (14.38%) CheckPoint
7 16 (10.00%) Arista
8 15 (9.38%) Aruba
9 12 (7.50%) Microsoft
10 9 (5.63%) Meraki
11 6 (3.75%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.13%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.50%) AlgoSec
13 4 (2.50%) Google
13 4 (2.50%) Riverbed
14 3 (1.88%) Blue Coat
14 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
14 3 (1.88%) Splunk
14 3 (1.88%) Tenable
14 3 (1.88%) VMware