Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Palo Alto
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.15% - 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 3.33% - 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £425
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 - £425

All Vendors
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 30 31 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 34.48% 56.36% 40.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 33
10th Percentile £385 £269 £154
25th Percentile £441 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £638 £633 £655
Oxfordshire median daily rate £480 £394 £438
% change year-on-year +21.90% -10.00% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £30.40 - £19.01
25th Percentile £37.42 £13.08 £23.52
Median hourly rate £50.72 £46.30 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% +77.87% +43.97%
75th Percentile £64.92 - £27.15
90th Percentile £72.47 - £29.16
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £28.48 £27.76 £22.63
% change year-on-year +2.58% +22.68% -14.87%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Oxford

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HSRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VRRP
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor