Palo Alto Contracts in Merseyside

Palo Alto
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 26 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.79% - 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 3.13% - 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £481 - £275
25th Percentile £490 - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.60%
75th Percentile £533 - £388
90th Percentile £534 - -
North West median daily rate £550 £434 £375
% change year-on-year +26.82% +15.65% -14.77%

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 96 100 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 57.14% 43.86% 48.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 37 124
10th Percentile £143 £162 £302
25th Percentile £172 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £275 £495
Median % change year-on-year +68.18% -44.44% +15.12%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £626
90th Percentile £638 £494 £700
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £14.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +34.62%
75th Percentile - £18.27 £18.75
90th Percentile - £23.46 £19.05
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Merseyside

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Merseyside

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 2 £518 - 5
Bootle - 1 - -
Palo Alto
North West

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) IGMP
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Multicast
2 1 (33.33%) NGFW
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) LAN Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Network Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Performance Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki