Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Palo Alto
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 19 November 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
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 40 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 1 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.28% 0.81% 2.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.70% 2.24% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £416 £481
25th Percentile - £441 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -15.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile - £541 £606
90th Percentile - £569 £618
Wales median daily rate £500 £488 £575
% change year-on-year +2.56% -15.22% +9.52%

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 142 134 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.11% 36.02% 46.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 85 138
10th Percentile £190 £160 £184
25th Percentile £290 £209 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £622
90th Percentile £599 £642 £650
Wales median daily rate £350 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -25.93% -0.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 8
10th Percentile £13.47 £24.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.74 £25.60 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £50.00 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% +109.07% +32.86%
75th Percentile £20.75 £51.88 £26.31
90th Percentile £27.85 £54.25 £65.87
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £30.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -31.67% +25.44% +32.86%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Palo Alto relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in South Wales

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Newport - 1 £500 -
Palo Alto
Wales

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler