Palo Alto Contracts in the North of England

Palo Alto
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Palo Alto over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 156 221
Rank change year-on-year +3 +65 -60
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 35 58 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.75% 1.02% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 1.77% 2.54% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 42 17
10th Percentile £378 £288 £394
25th Percentile £429 £314 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £515 £525 £488
90th Percentile £540 £685 £550
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £52.13 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +195.52% -
England median hourly rate - £62.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year - -10.21% +2.68%

All Vendors
North of England

Palo Alto is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,980 2,280 2,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 42.49% 39.94% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,546 1,828
10th Percentile £250 £235 £175
25th Percentile £388 £395 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +8.55% +8.38%
75th Percentile £586 £595 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 66 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.97 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.53 £19.17 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.17 £37.50 £17.73
Median % change year-on-year -59.55% +111.57% -9.51%
75th Percentile £24.15 £47.75 £26.88
90th Percentile £46.18 £53.17 £48.55
England median hourly rate £22.40 £38.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.82% +83.33% -

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
North West +18 34 £433 +18.75% 4
Yorkshire +8 1 £550 +10.00% 1
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) DMZ
1 16 (45.71%) Firewall
1 16 (45.71%) SD-WAN
2 15 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
2 15 (42.86%) NetScaler
3 14 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (40.00%) Wireless
4 13 (37.14%) BGP
4 13 (37.14%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (37.14%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (37.14%) Cisco IOS
4 13 (37.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 13 (37.14%) EIGRP
4 13 (37.14%) HSRP
4 13 (37.14%) IPsec
4 13 (37.14%) OSPF
5 12 (34.29%) SNMP
5 12 (34.29%) Spanning Tree
6 3 (8.57%) WAN
7 2 (5.71%) Network Security
General
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Banking
2 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (91.43%) Network Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Senior
3 10 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Wireless Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Wireless Network Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Data Centre Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Network Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) Jinja
2 2 (5.71%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) ITSM
2 15 (42.86%) Network Management
3 13 (37.14%) Change Management
3 13 (37.14%) ITIL
4 12 (34.29%) DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (5.71%) Load Balancing
5 2 (5.71%) Network Design
6 1 (2.86%) Business Strategy
6 1 (2.86%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (2.86%) Decision-Making
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (2.86%) Server Building
6 1 (2.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.86%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Perl
1 12 (34.29%) Python
1 12 (34.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) CCNA
3 12 (34.29%) CCNP
3 12 (34.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.86%) VxRail
2 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (91.43%) Cisco
2 16 (45.71%) F5
3 14 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 13 (37.14%) Citrix
5 2 (5.71%) Meraki
6 1 (2.86%) Dell
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.86%) Symantec
6 1 (2.86%) Veeam
6 1 (2.86%) VMware