Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Palo Alto
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 5 May 2026, 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
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.47% - -
As % of the Vendors category 5.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £625 - -

All Vendors
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 131 111 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.52% 48.90% 46.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 78 49
10th Percentile £370 £276 £331
25th Percentile £419 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -11.89%
75th Percentile £589 £570 £638
90th Percentile £638 £625 £703
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -14.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 5
10th Percentile £26.66 - £13.10
25th Percentile £58.75 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +197.14% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £15.75
% change year-on-year +25.00% +230.26% -

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) OCI
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) BIG-IP
2 6 (85.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (85.71%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) VXLAN
3 5 (71.43%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (71.43%) SD-WAN
4 4 (57.14%) WAN
5 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (42.86%) WLAN
6 1 (14.29%) Network Security
6 1 (14.29%) NGFW
6 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Load Balancing
4 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) High Availability
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
6 2 (28.57%) Network Design
6 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
7 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
7 1 (14.29%) DevOps
7 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
7 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
7 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) F5
2 5 (71.43%) Arista
3 4 (57.14%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint