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 18 February 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
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 223 273
Rank change year-on-year -40 +50 +111
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 132 138 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 1.02% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.89% 2.32% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 96 79
10th Percentile £356 £425 £310
25th Percentile £413 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £615 £650 £725
90th Percentile £675 £728 £875
England median daily rate £481 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +5.26%
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% +5.37%

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 6,994 5,947 7,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.02% 44.10% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,605 3,678 4,991
10th Percentile £350 £313 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -0.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 75 145
10th Percentile £18.02 £21.50 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £17.78
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +32.08% +6.00%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £66.12 £80.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.35 £27.52
% change year-on-year -23.99% +13.92% -17.25%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -14 15 £550 -12.00% 11
South London -11 5 £425 -10.53% 2
North London - 4 - -
East London -2 1 £525 +1.94% 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 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) JBoss
3 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 58 (43.94%) Azure
2 34 (25.76%) AWS
3 20 (15.15%) GCP
4 11 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (7.58%) Azure Sentinel
5 10 (7.58%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.79%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.79%) Mimecast
8 4 (3.03%) Cloudflare
9 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.27%) IaaS
9 3 (2.27%) OpenDNS
9 3 (2.27%) PaaS
9 3 (2.27%) Route 53
10 2 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 84 (63.64%) Firewall
2 55 (41.67%) Network Security
3 45 (34.09%) WAN
4 42 (31.82%) VPN
5 29 (21.97%) BGP
6 26 (19.70%) LAN
7 21 (15.91%) OSPF
7 21 (15.91%) SD-WAN
8 19 (14.39%) Wireless
9 16 (12.12%) MPLS
9 16 (12.12%) TCP/IP
10 14 (10.61%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (9.85%) SSL
11 13 (9.85%) VLAN
12 12 (9.09%) DNS
12 12 (9.09%) NGFW
13 11 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (7.58%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (6.82%) Internet
15 9 (6.82%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
1 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Git
2 7 (5.30%) GitLab
3 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.52%) JIRA
5 1 (0.76%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (18.18%) Finance
2 22 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.58%) Legal
6 8 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.79%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.79%) Law
9 4 (3.03%) Military
10 3 (2.27%) Banking
11 2 (1.52%) Local Government
11 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 29 (21.97%) Senior
3 26 (19.70%) Architect
4 17 (12.88%) Security Engineer
5 16 (12.12%) Network Architect
6 10 (7.58%) Network Security Engineer
6 10 (7.58%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.30%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Consultant
10 5 (3.79%) Lead
10 5 (3.79%) Network Operations Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Analyst
11 4 (3.03%) Firewall Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.79%) 802.1X
1 5 (3.79%) REST
2 3 (2.27%) JSON
3 2 (1.52%) CSS
3 2 (1.52%) HTML
3 2 (1.52%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.52%) SAML
3 2 (1.52%) XML
3 2 (1.52%) YANG
4 1 (0.76%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.76%) LangChain
4 1 (0.76%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.30%) Security Posture
3 6 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.55%) PKI
3 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.52%) Life Science
5 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.52%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.76%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (0.76%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) SCADA
6 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.36%) Linux
2 14 (10.61%) Windows
3 7 (5.30%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (14.39%) Incident Response
3 18 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (12.12%) Cloud Security
4 16 (12.12%) Migration
5 15 (11.36%) Network Design
5 15 (11.36%) SIEM
5 15 (11.36%) Zero Trust
6 14 (10.61%) DevOps
6 14 (10.61%) SOAR
7 13 (9.85%) High Availability
8 12 (9.09%) Incident Management
8 12 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 11 (8.33%) Agile
9 11 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
9 11 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (7.58%) AI
10 10 (7.58%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.97%) Python
2 11 (8.33%) Bash
3 10 (7.58%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (2.27%) SQL
5 2 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.76%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.76%) Perl
6 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 24 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (15.91%) CCNP
5 10 (7.58%) Degree
6 9 (6.82%) CCNA
7 8 (6.06%) CISSP
8 4 (3.03%) CCIE
8 4 (3.03%) CISM
9 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.27%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.52%) CCSE
10 2 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (1.52%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.76%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) NIST
2 6 (4.55%) GDPR
2 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.76%) PMO
5 1 (0.76%) QA
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.82%) Active Directory
1 9 (6.82%) Docker
2 4 (3.03%) Squid
2 4 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.27%) Snort
3 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.52%) Firmware
4 2 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.76%) KVM
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 20 (15.15%) Ansible
3 16 (12.12%) Terraform
4 9 (6.82%) Grafana
4 9 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.79%) Salt
7 4 (3.03%) Kubernetes
7 4 (3.03%) Nessus
8 3 (2.27%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (2.27%) Nexpose
8 3 (2.27%) Suricata
9 2 (1.52%) SCCM
9 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.76%) CASB
10 1 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.76%) QRadar
10 1 (0.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 81 (61.36%) Cisco
2 39 (29.55%) CheckPoint
3 35 (26.52%) Fortinet
4 29 (21.97%) F5
5 27 (20.45%) Microsoft
6 24 (18.18%) Aruba
6 24 (18.18%) Juniper
7 17 (12.88%) Splunk
8 10 (7.58%) Arista
8 10 (7.58%) Zscaler
9 9 (6.82%) Google
10 8 (6.06%) SolarWinds
11 7 (5.30%) ServiceNow
12 6 (4.55%) BigPanda
12 6 (4.55%) Meraki
13 5 (3.79%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (3.79%) Infoblox
14 4 (3.03%) FireEye
14 4 (3.03%) Qualys
15 3 (2.27%) Extreme Networks