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 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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 117 141
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 +84
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 35 66 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.98% 1.36% 1.31%
As % of the Vendors category 1.88% 2.80% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 51 50
10th Percentile £439 £413 £304
25th Percentile £450 £475 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £539
90th Percentile £683 - £604
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £76.59 - £60.30
25th Percentile £84.97 - £60.75
Median hourly rate £89.63 - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - +53.33%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,863 2,358 2,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.36% 48.51% 52.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,442 1,919
10th Percentile £209 £255 £205
25th Percentile £375 £401 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £629 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 138 129
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £15.45
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.57 £18.08
Median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.10% +27.44% +125.00%
75th Percentile £36.25 £61.53 £61.25
90th Percentile £72.25 £70.00 £70.26
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.89 £34.50
% change year-on-year -15.84% -13.38% +53.33%

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

Palo Alto
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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the South East over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

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 16 August 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
Thames Valley -22 14 £450 -19.64% 7
Surrey +21 12 £488 -2.50%
Berkshire -6 8 £450 -25.62% 3
Hampshire +19 7 £675 +13.92% 9
Oxfordshire -5 4 - -
Kent -6 2 £438 -2.78% 1
Buckinghamshire -9 2 £400 -23.81% 4
Palo Alto
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Akamai
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.86%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
3 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (94.29%) Firewall
2 16 (45.71%) VPN
3 12 (34.29%) BGP
3 12 (34.29%) Network Security
3 12 (34.29%) OSPF
3 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
4 11 (31.43%) VLAN
5 7 (20.00%) NGFW
6 5 (14.29%) DNS
6 5 (14.29%) Wireless
7 4 (11.43%) DHCP
7 4 (11.43%) WAN
8 3 (8.57%) LAN
8 3 (8.57%) MPLS
8 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (5.71%) Internet
10 1 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (2.86%) IPsec
10 1 (2.86%) SSL
10 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Aviation
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Network Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Analyst
3 8 (22.86%) Security Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Service Support Manager
6 2 (5.71%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Lead
7 1 (2.86%) Network Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.86%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (31.43%) SIEM
2 9 (25.71%) Security Operations
3 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (22.86%) Security Monitoring
4 6 (17.14%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 5 (14.29%) Runbook
5 5 (14.29%) Service Management
5 5 (14.29%) Zero Trust
6 4 (11.43%) Incident Management
6 4 (11.43%) ITIL
6 4 (11.43%) ITSM
6 4 (11.43%) Network Load Balancing
6 4 (11.43%) Time Management
7 3 (8.57%) Migration
7 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
8 2 (5.71%) Change Management
8 2 (5.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) Bash
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) CCNP
4 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 6 (17.14%) CCSA
5 6 (17.14%) CCSE
5 6 (17.14%) Check Point Certification
6 5 (14.29%) Degree
7 4 (11.43%) A+ Certification
7 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) QRadar
3 2 (5.71%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.86%) Iperf
4 1 (2.86%) Nmap
4 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Cisco
2 13 (37.14%) CheckPoint
3 6 (17.14%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 5 (14.29%) Qualys
5 4 (11.43%) Aruba
5 4 (11.43%) F5
5 4 (11.43%) Imperva
5 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
5 4 (11.43%) Splunk
6 2 (5.71%) Juniper
6 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.86%) Dell KACE
7 1 (2.86%) Meraki
7 1 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (2.86%) VMware
7 1 (2.86%) Zscaler