Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Northumberland

Palo Alto
North East > Northumberland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northumberland 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 28 October 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
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northumberland 12.50% - -
As % of the Vendors category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North East median daily rate - £350 £400
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
North East median hourly rate £74.26 - -

All Vendors
Northumberland

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 Northumberland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5 14 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northumberland 62.50% 63.64% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
North East median daily rate £500 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 3
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - -
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -58.32% - +229.86%

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northumberland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft