Palo Alto Contracts in Somerset

Palo Alto
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 20 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.88% - 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 7.27% - 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £493 - -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £540 £646 £544
% change year-on-year -16.45% +18.80% -1.14%

All Vendors
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 55 76 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 39.57% 37.44% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 48 49
10th Percentile £259 £159 £281
25th Percentile £371 £205 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £436 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% -5.68% +8.82%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £600
90th Percentile £638 £602 £703
South West median daily rate £516 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.57% -2.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 4
10th Percentile - £12.50 £16.93
25th Percentile - £13.93 £17.94
Median hourly rate £14.42 £40.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.95% +15.94% +122.58%
75th Percentile £17.72 - £50.00
90th Percentile £19.69 - -
South West median hourly rate £40.84 £47.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -14.02% -24.60% +33.74%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Somerset

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Somerset

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bath - 2 £600 - 3
Street - 2 £518 -
Palo Alto
South West

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (25.00%) IGMP
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) NGFW
3 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) LAN Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ArchiMate
1 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
1 2 (50.00%) Business Development
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) IT Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) Supplier Management
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (50.00%) JNCIP
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) F5