Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in the North East

Palo Alto
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 53 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.24% 0.31% -
As % of the Vendors category 4.32% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
75th Percentile £638 £338 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% +5.00%

All Vendors
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 162 154 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 28.67% 47.38% 41.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 106 68
10th Percentile £365 £235 £163
25th Percentile £419 £329 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £595 £549 £625
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 16
10th Percentile £26.66 £18.35 £11.22
25th Percentile £54.06 £18.68 £13.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.44 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.43% +102.49% -64.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.40 £27.12
90th Percentile - £55.91 £60.00
England median hourly rate £31.18 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.93% +20.56% -43.75%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the North East

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 5 May 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 7 £625 - 5
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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