Palo Alto Contracts in Manchester

Palo Alto
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 78 99
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +33
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 2 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.22% 1.19% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 3.40% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £391 £378 £300
25th Percentile £397 £386 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -13.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £472 £433 £538
90th Percentile £474 £446 £550
North West median daily rate £550 £434 £375
% change year-on-year +26.82% +15.65% -14.77%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 442 530 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.73% 34.94% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 353 476
10th Percentile £230 £313 £300
25th Percentile £398 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £703 £656
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 42 16
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.81 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.51 £18.73
Median hourly rate £32.50 £17.72 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% -45.64% +93.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds