Palo Alto Contracts in the North West

Palo Alto
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 108 167
Rank change year-on-year +6 +59 -55
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 35 45 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.27% 1.40% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 3.18% 3.48% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 10
10th Percentile £378 - £399
25th Percentile £429 £288 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £375 £440
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -14.77% +12.82%
75th Percentile £515 £525 £484
90th Percentile £519 £538 £497
England median daily rate £520 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £62.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year +1.61% -10.21% +11.37%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,099 1,293 1,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 39.78% 40.24% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 867 991
10th Percentile £272 £288 £185
25th Percentile £394 £388 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +10.71%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £575
90th Percentile £688 £665 £650
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 58 96
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.60 £10.49
25th Percentile £11.95 £20.77 £14.44
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £19.62
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% +91.11% -28.64%
75th Percentile £25.54 £49.05 £42.20
90th Percentile £46.18 £54.27 £57.50
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester +15 18 £433 -13.50%
Cumbria - 15 £515 -
Cheshire -6 2 £538 +65.38%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.86%) AWS
1 1 (2.86%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) DMZ
1 17 (48.57%) Firewall
2 16 (45.71%) SD-WAN
3 15 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
3 15 (42.86%) NetScaler
4 14 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (40.00%) Wireless
5 13 (37.14%) BGP
5 13 (37.14%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (37.14%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (37.14%) Cisco IOS
5 13 (37.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 13 (37.14%) EIGRP
5 13 (37.14%) HSRP
5 13 (37.14%) IPsec
5 13 (37.14%) OSPF
6 12 (34.29%) SNMP
6 12 (34.29%) Spanning Tree
7 3 (8.57%) Network Security
8 2 (5.71%) WAN
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 33 (94.29%) 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%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Network Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Network Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) Jinja
2 2 (5.71%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) PKI
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 3 (8.57%) Cloud Security
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (5.71%) Load Balancing
6 2 (5.71%) Network Design
7 1 (2.86%) Business Strategy
7 1 (2.86%) Data Centre Operations
7 1 (2.86%) Decision-Making
7 1 (2.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.86%) Hardware Maintenance
7 1 (2.86%) High Availability
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (2.86%) Server Building
7 1 (2.86%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Perl
1 12 (34.29%) Python
1 12 (34.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) 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 13 (37.14%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (88.57%) Cisco
2 17 (48.57%) F5
3 14 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 13 (37.14%) Citrix
5 2 (5.71%) Meraki
6 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.86%) Symantec
6 1 (2.86%) Veeam
6 1 (2.86%) VMware