Palo Alto Contracts in Milton Keynes

Palo Alto
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 18 33 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 13 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 7.51% 2.82% 1.46%
As % of the Vendors category 15.29% 5.47% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 9
10th Percentile £539 £675 £467
25th Percentile £566 £775 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £800 £540
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +48.15% -
75th Percentile £630 £919 £600
90th Percentile £645 £938 £610
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £618 £800 £540
% change year-on-year -22.81% +48.15% -

All Vendors
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 85 201 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 49.13% 51.54% 41.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 159 258
10th Percentile £341 £223 £275
25th Percentile £413 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £555 £555
90th Percentile £734 £662 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £19.35 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £22.59 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £24.09 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.39% +140.90% -7.15%
75th Percentile £32.88 £44.06 £10.50
90th Percentile £55.15 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £24.09 £10.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% +140.90% -7.15%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Milton Keynes

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Milton Keynes

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Milton Keynes

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) IaaS
1 7 (53.85%) PaaS
1 7 (53.85%) SaaS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) VSAN
2 5 (38.46%) SD-WAN
2 5 (38.46%) WAN
3 4 (30.77%) BGP
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (30.77%) MPLS
3 4 (30.77%) NGFW
3 4 (30.77%) OSPF
3 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 3 (23.08%) DNS
4 3 (23.08%) Firewall
4 3 (23.08%) VLAN
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (7.69%) LAN
6 1 (7.69%) Network Security
6 1 (7.69%) WLAN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Architect
2 11 (84.62%) Technical Architect
3 10 (76.92%) Senior
3 10 (76.92%) Senior Architect
3 10 (76.92%) Senior Technical Architect
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (30.77%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (15.38%) VMware Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Principal Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (69.23%) PKI
3 5 (38.46%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) DevSecOps
1 12 (92.31%) TOGAF
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (69.23%) ITIL
4 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
4 8 (61.54%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (61.54%) Microservices
4 8 (61.54%) Zachman Framework
5 7 (53.85%) IT Strategy
5 7 (53.85%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (53.85%) Use Case
6 6 (46.15%) Requirements Management
7 4 (30.77%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (30.77%) Virtual Environments
8 2 (15.38%) Adaptive Security
8 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (7.69%) Presales
9 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (69.23%) MCSE
3 9 (69.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (69.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) CCNP
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (76.92%) NCSC
1 10 (76.92%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (92.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco
1 12 (92.31%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint