Palo Alto Contracts in the Midlands

Palo Alto
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 96 115 138
Rank change year-on-year +19 +23 +55
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 15 18 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.65% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 1.74% 1.52% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 24
10th Percentile £430 £353 £295
25th Percentile £490 £463 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.08% +29.73% +12.12%
75th Percentile £551 £775 £621
90th Percentile £578 £910 £700
England median daily rate £521 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +4.00% -

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +11 12 £551 -26.53% 12
East Midlands +10 3 £430 +32.31% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) Internet
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) BGP
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) OSPF
4 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Network Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Network Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Network Implementation Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) CSOC
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (53.33%) VMS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Event Correlation
1 8 (53.33%) SIEM
2 1 (6.67%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (6.67%) Network Design
2 1 (6.67%) Network Management
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security Management
2 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (6.67%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE Wireless
4 1 (6.67%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Cisco
2 12 (80.00%) Fortinet
3 8 (53.33%) F5
3 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
3 8 (53.33%) ServiceNow
3 8 (53.33%) SolarWinds
3 8 (53.33%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper