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 8 July 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
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 254 247
Rank change year-on-year -23 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 165 114 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 0.85% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 2.03% 1.87% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 73 118
10th Percentile £400 £388 £371
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £35.95 - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile £73.25 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.40 -
% change year-on-year -0.65% - -

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 8,126 6,102 7,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.55% 45.67% 42.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,313 3,959 5,066
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% - -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 114 126
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.04 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.60 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.33 £24.52
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +15.53% -20.27%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £82.00 £65.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.23 £25.00
% change year-on-year +38.75% +0.90% -30.56%

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 8 July 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 8 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Palo Alto in London

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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 8 July 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 -22 14 £538 +0.28% 9
South London -1 9 £450 -
West London -17 3 £525 +5.00% 5
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 3 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (36.97%) Azure
2 36 (21.82%) AWS
3 18 (10.91%) GCP
4 12 (7.27%) Entra ID
4 12 (7.27%) GitHub
5 8 (4.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.42%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.82%) Mimecast
7 3 (1.82%) OCI
8 2 (1.21%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.61%) Datadog
9 1 (0.61%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.61%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 128 (77.58%) Firewall
2 67 (40.61%) WAN
3 66 (40.00%) Network Security
4 54 (32.73%) VPN
5 44 (26.67%) BGP
6 29 (17.58%) LAN
6 29 (17.58%) OSPF
7 25 (15.15%) MPLS
7 25 (15.15%) Wireless
8 22 (13.33%) SD-WAN
8 22 (13.33%) VLAN
9 19 (11.52%) NGFW
10 17 (10.30%) DNS
10 17 (10.30%) Multicast
11 15 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
11 15 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (7.27%) Cisco IOS
12 12 (7.27%) EIGRP
13 11 (6.67%) DHCP
13 11 (6.67%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.61%) MySQL
1 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.03%) JIRA
2 3 (1.82%) Git
2 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (16.36%) Finance
2 26 (15.76%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.06%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.45%) Legal
6 8 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.03%) Banking
8 5 (3.03%) Local Government
9 4 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.82%) Law
10 3 (1.82%) Retail
10 3 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.61%) German Language
12 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 94 (56.97%) Network Engineer
2 35 (21.21%) Security Engineer
3 30 (18.18%) Senior
4 24 (14.55%) Architect
5 23 (13.94%) Network Security Engineer
6 17 (10.30%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (7.27%) Network Architect
8 11 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (6.06%) Security Architect
10 8 (4.85%) Cisco Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 8 (4.85%) Security Manager
11 7 (4.24%) Consultant
11 7 (4.24%) Firewall Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Network Operations Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Network Security Architect
12 4 (2.42%) Operations Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Senior Cisco Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.24%) SAML
2 3 (1.82%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.21%) REST
3 2 (1.21%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.61%) CSS
4 1 (0.61%) HTML
4 1 (0.61%) LDAP
4 1 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.03%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.85%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.82%) IoT
7 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.82%) PKI
7 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.21%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.21%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) NHS
8 2 (1.21%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.61%) Anti-Spyware
9 1 (0.61%) BYOD
9 1 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.27%) Linux
2 11 (6.67%) Windows
3 6 (3.64%) Unix
4 5 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (15.15%) Zero Trust
2 23 (13.94%) Cloud Security
3 19 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (11.52%) Project Delivery
4 18 (10.91%) Migration
5 17 (10.30%) Validation
6 16 (9.70%) ITIL
7 14 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (7.88%) ITSM
8 13 (7.88%) Load Balancing
8 13 (7.88%) Network Design
9 12 (7.27%) CI/CD
9 12 (7.27%) Incident Response
9 12 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (6.67%) Agile
10 11 (6.67%) Security Architecture
11 10 (6.06%) DevOps
11 10 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (6.06%) Mentoring
11 10 (6.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.64%) Python
2 11 (6.67%) Bash
3 8 (4.85%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.21%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (22.42%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (20.61%) CCNP
3 19 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.52%) Security Cleared
4 16 (9.70%) Degree
5 8 (4.85%) CCNA
6 4 (2.42%) CCSE
6 4 (2.42%) CISSP
6 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.82%) JNCIP
7 3 (1.82%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.21%) CCIE
8 2 (1.21%) CISM
8 2 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.06%) NIST
2 7 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.64%) NIST 800
4 4 (2.42%) GDPR
4 4 (2.42%) GRC
5 3 (1.82%) SLA
6 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (4.24%) Active Directory
1 7 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.82%) Firmware
2 3 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.21%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.61%) Docker
4 1 (0.61%) IAG
4 1 (0.61%) NFS
4 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (19.39%) Ansible
2 27 (16.36%) Terraform
3 23 (13.94%) FortiGate
4 12 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.45%) Grafana
6 4 (2.42%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.42%) Salt
7 3 (1.82%) Consul
8 2 (1.21%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.21%) SCCM
9 1 (0.61%) QRadar
9 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 105 (63.64%) Cisco
2 45 (27.27%) CheckPoint
2 45 (27.27%) Fortinet
3 41 (24.85%) F5
4 32 (19.39%) Juniper
5 26 (15.76%) Zscaler
6 23 (13.94%) Arista
7 21 (12.73%) Aruba
8 14 (8.48%) Infoblox
8 14 (8.48%) Microsoft
9 10 (6.06%) Splunk
10 9 (5.45%) Meraki
11 7 (4.24%) ServiceNow
11 7 (4.24%) SolarWinds
12 5 (3.03%) BigPanda
12 5 (3.03%) VMware
13 4 (2.42%) Google
14 3 (1.82%) Blue Coat
14 3 (1.82%) Dell
14 3 (1.82%) Forcepoint