Palo Alto Contracts in the South East

Palo Alto
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 160 211
Rank change year-on-year +27 +51 -65
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 67 66 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.21% 1.13% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 2.55% 2.27% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 49 40
10th Percentile £413 £305 £306
25th Percentile £450 £375 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £646 £538 £538
90th Percentile £825 £590 £627
England median daily rate £520 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £51.83 -
25th Percentile £58.50 £60.75 -
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.25 -
90th Percentile - £80.48 -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £62.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year +1.61% -10.21% +11.37%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,629 2,903 3,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.58% 49.80% 44.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,601 1,996 2,377
10th Percentile £213 £205 £188
25th Percentile £378 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 125 138
10th Percentile £12.00 £18.08 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.24 £22.16 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £36.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.45 £62.15
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +24 33 £605 +9.75% 9
Hampshire 0 22 £550 +10.00% 8
Berkshire +9 20 £605 +7.56% 6
Buckinghamshire +27 12 £800 +48.15%
West Sussex +3 4 £425 -15.00%
Kent - 4 £425 -
Surrey -2 2 £500 +61.29% 3
East Sussex +7 1 £500 -28.57% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.36%) Azure
2 13 (19.40%) OCI
3 5 (7.46%) AWS
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.48%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) Route 53
6 2 (2.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (83.58%) Firewall
2 30 (44.78%) Network Security
3 26 (38.81%) Cisco ASA
3 26 (38.81%) Cisco ISE
4 20 (29.85%) DNS
5 18 (26.87%) DHCP
6 16 (23.88%) WAN
7 15 (22.39%) SAN
8 13 (19.40%) VPN
8 13 (19.40%) Wireless
9 12 (17.91%) LAN
10 7 (10.45%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (8.96%) VoIP
12 4 (5.97%) BGP
12 4 (5.97%) WLAN
13 3 (4.48%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (4.48%) OSPF
13 3 (4.48%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (4.48%) SSL
13 3 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Git
1 2 (2.99%) GitLab
1 2 (2.99%) JIRA
General
1 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Organisational Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Finance
5 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.99%) Electronics
6 2 (2.99%) Law
6 2 (2.99%) Legal
6 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.99%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 32 (47.76%) Network Engineer
2 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (13.43%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 9 (13.43%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Network Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Network Security Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Security Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Security Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Juniper Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) PowerShell Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) EDI
2 2 (2.99%) LDAP
2 2 (2.99%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (47.76%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.96%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.48%) CCTV
3 3 (4.48%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.48%) SCADA
4 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) PKI
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.49%) Life Science
5 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.39%) Linux
2 13 (19.40%) Windows
2 13 (19.40%) Windows 10
2 13 (19.40%) Windows Server
2 13 (19.40%) Windows Server 2012
2 13 (19.40%) Windows Server 2016
2 13 (19.40%) Windows Server 2019
2 13 (19.40%) Windows XP
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (25.37%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (25.37%) ITIL
3 15 (22.39%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (22.39%) Project Management
4 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (19.40%) Break/Fix
5 13 (19.40%) Converged Infrastructure
5 13 (19.40%) Performance Monitoring
5 13 (19.40%) Proactive Monitoring
5 13 (19.40%) Server Management
5 13 (19.40%) Storage Management
6 9 (13.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 8 (11.94%) Migration
8 7 (10.45%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.45%) Service Management
8 7 (10.45%) Time Management
9 6 (8.96%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.46%) Load Balancing
10 5 (7.46%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.99%) Python
Qualifications
1 43 (64.18%) Cisco Certification
1 43 (64.18%) Security Cleared
2 39 (58.21%) CCNP
3 34 (50.75%) DV Cleared
4 26 (38.81%) SC Cleared
5 21 (31.34%) CCNA
6 19 (28.36%) Degree
7 6 (8.96%) CISM
8 5 (7.46%) CCSA
8 5 (7.46%) JNCIA
9 4 (5.97%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (4.48%) CCIE
11 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) SLA
2 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.99%) GDPR
2 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (19.40%) Active Directory
2 13 (19.40%) Hyper-V
2 13 (19.40%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (11.94%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) EMC NetWorker
1 13 (19.40%) NetBackup
1 13 (19.40%) SCCM
1 13 (19.40%) SCOM
1 13 (19.40%) vCenter Server
1 13 (19.40%) WSUS
2 11 (16.42%) Nessus
3 3 (4.48%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.99%) Nagios
4 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (86.57%) Cisco
2 35 (52.24%) Juniper
3 23 (34.33%) VMware
4 22 (32.84%) Dell
5 17 (25.37%) CheckPoint
6 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
7 13 (19.40%) 3PAR
7 13 (19.40%) EMC
7 13 (19.40%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (19.40%) HP
7 13 (19.40%) Oracle
7 13 (19.40%) Symantec
7 13 (19.40%) Veeam
8 12 (17.91%) ScienceLogic
9 10 (14.93%) F5
9 10 (14.93%) SolarWinds
10 6 (8.96%) Blue Coat
10 6 (8.96%) Meraki
11 3 (4.48%) Citrix
11 3 (4.48%) QinetiQ