Palo Alto Contract Job Trends 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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 71 85
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +43
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 4 12 18
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.39% 1.03% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 0.80% 2.47% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 17
10th Percentile £649 - £399
25th Percentile £666 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £741 £550 £488
90th Percentile £746 - £525
North West median daily rate £520 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +17.96%

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 499 486 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.54% 41.54% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 272 476
10th Percentile £305 £363 £225
25th Percentile £395 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +4.71% -3.54%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £582
90th Percentile £716 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 27
10th Percentile £15.06 £15.89 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £23.63 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.32 £31.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -29.72% +79.18% -56.78%
75th Percentile £31.40 £41.56 £42.50
90th Percentile £32.70 £64.13 £50.13
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% - +49.64%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Palo Alto relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Manchester

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) 802.11
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCDP
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler