Palo Alto Contracts 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 25 August 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
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 254 244
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +126
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Palo Alto 118 144 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.89% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 1.92% 2.05% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 113 156
10th Percentile £388 £400 £420
25th Percentile £421 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -16.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £743
90th Percentile £650 £650 £805
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,158 7,016 9,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.04% 43.14% 41.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,982 4,682 6,659
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -4.46% -0.88%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 81 113
10th Percentile £16.24 £18.13 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.95 £22.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% -24.00% +41.94%
75th Percentile £39.38 £61.43 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.45 £76.25 £73.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -27.50% +77.78%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto 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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in London over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in London

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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

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DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +6 31 £536 +5.10% 7
South London +4 4 £538 -
West London -3 3 £500 -
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.46%) Azure
2 26 (22.03%) AWS
3 16 (13.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 14 (11.86%) GCP
5 9 (7.63%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.24%) SaaS
7 5 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.54%) Asana
9 3 (2.54%) GitHub
9 3 (2.54%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.54%) Slack
10 2 (1.69%) Akamai
10 2 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (78.81%) Firewall
2 46 (38.98%) VPN
3 35 (29.66%) WAN
4 33 (27.97%) Network Security
5 29 (24.58%) DNS
6 24 (20.34%) SD-WAN
7 22 (18.64%) BGP
7 22 (18.64%) NGFW
8 21 (17.80%) OSPF
9 19 (16.10%) LAN
10 18 (15.25%) TCP/IP
11 13 (11.02%) MPLS
12 12 (10.17%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (9.32%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (8.47%) IPsec
14 10 (8.47%) SSL
15 9 (7.63%) Multicast
15 9 (7.63%) VLAN
16 8 (6.78%) Wireless
17 7 (5.93%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.69%) Power BI
2 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Git
2 8 (6.78%) GitLab
2 8 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.54%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.49%) Finance
3 9 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.93%) Banking
4 7 (5.93%) Law
5 5 (4.24%) Legal
6 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Military
7 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (45.76%) Network Engineer
2 19 (16.10%) Support Engineer
3 18 (15.25%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (13.56%) Network Support
4 16 (13.56%) Network Support Engineer
4 16 (13.56%) Security Engineer
5 15 (12.71%) Consultant
6 14 (11.86%) Senior
7 11 (9.32%) Architect
7 11 (9.32%) Network Architect
7 11 (9.32%) Network Security Engineer
8 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Lead
9 8 (6.78%) Security Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Active Directory Support
11 4 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) IT Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.56%) ADO
2 5 (4.24%) JSON
3 2 (1.69%) XML
3 2 (1.69%) YAML
4 1 (0.85%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.85%) CrewAI
4 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.85%) LangChain
4 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.64%) Data Centre
2 17 (14.41%) Anti-Spyware
3 9 (7.63%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.39%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.69%) PKI
6 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
7 1 (0.85%) SCADA
7 1 (0.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.02%) Windows
2 7 (5.93%) Linux
3 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.69%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (24.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (18.64%) Migration
3 21 (17.80%) Agile
4 20 (16.95%) Kalman Filter
5 18 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (11.02%) Network Monitoring
7 12 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (10.17%) Zero Trust
8 11 (9.32%) Cloud Security
8 11 (9.32%) DevOps
8 11 (9.32%) SIEM
9 10 (8.47%) Vulnerability Management
10 9 (7.63%) Incident Response
10 9 (7.63%) Patch Management
11 8 (6.78%) Change Management
11 8 (6.78%) CI/CD
11 8 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.78%) SOAR
12 7 (5.93%) ITIL
12 7 (5.93%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.03%) Python
2 9 (7.63%) Bash
3 6 (5.08%) SQL
4 5 (4.24%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.69%) Java
5 2 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.85%) Go
6 1 (0.85%) Perl
6 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (7.63%) CCNP
5 6 (5.08%) Degree
6 5 (4.24%) JNCIA
7 4 (3.39%) CCNA
7 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.54%) CISSP
9 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.69%) CCIE
9 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.69%) SANS
10 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.85%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 1 (0.85%) CCSE
10 1 (0.85%) CEH
10 1 (0.85%) CRISC
10 1 (0.85%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) NIST
2 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.54%) SLA
4 2 (1.69%) GDPR
4 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.78%) Docker
3 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.54%) Squid
4 3 (2.54%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.69%) Firmware
5 2 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.69%) Snort
5 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.85%) FreeRADIUS
6 1 (0.85%) iptables
6 1 (0.85%) KVM
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (27.97%) Terraform
2 23 (19.49%) Ansible
3 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.24%) FortiGate
4 5 (4.24%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.54%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (2.54%) Nagios
6 2 (1.69%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.69%) Icinga
6 2 (1.69%) Nessus
6 2 (1.69%) Nexpose
6 2 (1.69%) Observium
6 2 (1.69%) Suricata
7 1 (0.85%) CASB
7 1 (0.85%) Grafana
7 1 (0.85%) Graylog
7 1 (0.85%) logstash
7 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.85%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 60 (50.85%) Cisco
2 38 (32.20%) CheckPoint
3 29 (24.58%) Juniper
4 26 (22.03%) Fortinet
4 26 (22.03%) Microsoft
5 21 (17.80%) F5
6 19 (16.10%) Infoblox
7 11 (9.32%) Zscaler
8 10 (8.47%) SolarWinds
9 9 (7.63%) Meraki
9 9 (7.63%) VMware
10 7 (5.93%) Aruba
10 7 (5.93%) Google
10 7 (5.93%) Splunk
11 6 (5.08%) Arista
11 6 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (3.39%) FireEye
12 4 (3.39%) Qualys
13 3 (2.54%) NetScout
13 3 (2.54%) Trend Micro