Palo Alto Contracts in Scotland

Palo Alto
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 101 156
Rank change year-on-year -27 +55 -19
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 61 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 2.13% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 5.31% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 50 16
10th Percentile - £325 £407
25th Percentile £450 £453 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% +10.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £558 £513 £481
90th Percentile £568 £538 £512
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 903 1,148 1,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.38% 40.11% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 826 772
10th Percentile £184 £173 £171
25th Percentile £350 £364 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +5.06% +7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £688 £629 £600
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 17 32
10th Percentile £13.28 £21.26 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.67 £17.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £57.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.57% +57.53% +13.18%
75th Percentile £54.69 £65.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £69.25 £53.45
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £43.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -48.49% +104.76% -6.67%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Scotland

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Glasgow +8 5 £550 +57.14% 2
Edinburgh -7 1 - - 1
Palo Alto
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Catchpoint
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) OSPF
2 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) IPv6
4 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 2 (28.57%) SSL
5 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
5 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (14.29%) IPsec
5 1 (14.29%) MPLS
5 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
5 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Field Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Field Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) CMDB
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) BCP
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
2 2 (28.57%) Compliance Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCNP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Observium
2 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Arista
2 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) AppNeta
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 2 (28.57%) Tufin
3 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
4 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) VMware