Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Preston

Palo Alto
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.10% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £335 £500 £238
% change year-on-year -33.00% +110.53% -

All Vendors
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 56 31 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 61.54% 67.39% 46.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 11 7
10th Percentile £258 £463 £368
25th Percentile £400 £494 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +26.59% +57.41%
75th Percentile £625 £543 £463
90th Percentile £680 £567 £488
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £525 £641
% change year-on-year +4.76% -18.13% +20.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 21
10th Percentile - £19.41 -
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.30 £20.58
Median hourly rate £33.10 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -34.17% +15.45%
75th Percentile £51.63 £37.00 -
90th Percentile £65.21 £55.71 £78.00
Lancashire median hourly rate £61.57 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +33.33% - +15.45%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Preston

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds