Palo Alto Contracts in Reading

Palo Alto
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 74 86
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 17 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 1.43% 0.096%
As % of the Vendors category 2.17% 2.96% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £605 £563
% change year-on-year -25.62% +7.56% -13.19%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 322 575 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 53.94% 48.24% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 358 369
10th Percentile £350 £213 £372
25th Percentile £456 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -4.35% +11.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £685
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 15
10th Percentile £33.82 £52.90 £29.10
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.38 £47.95
Median hourly rate £53.10 £60.14 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -7.01% +115.58%
75th Percentile £65.14 £62.03 £66.21
90th Percentile £72.37 £64.66 £73.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) BGP
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) Network Security
1 6 (85.71%) OSPF
2 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 5 (71.43%) VLAN
2 5 (71.43%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) SSL
4 1 (14.29%) TACACS
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (57.14%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CCNP
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (57.14%) CCSA
2 4 (57.14%) CCSE
2 4 (57.14%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
3 2 (28.57%) Aruba