Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in the South West

Palo Alto
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 October 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
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 120 136
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +22
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 9 20 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.46% 0.78% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.05% 1.73% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 5
10th Percentile £499 £410 £273
25th Percentile £513 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £586 £581 £556
90th Percentile £617 £650 £568
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £63.58
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £17.79 - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £45.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +47.78% -31.80% +53.03%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 858 1,153 1,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.53% 45.16% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 675 858
10th Percentile £220 £220 £275
25th Percentile £350 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £619 £633 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 95 107
10th Percentile £14.42 £28.35 £19.70
25th Percentile £18.87 £59.63 £46.59
Median hourly rate £22.63 £70.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -67.67% +23.92% +2.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £65.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.26 £77.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.67%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the South West

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the South West over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the South West

Palo Alto
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Palo Alto.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Wiltshire -1 4 - - 2
Bristol +6 3 £490 -3.92%
Somerset - 2 £580 - 2
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 2 (22.22%) PBX
3 2 (22.22%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) VoIP
4 1 (11.11%) 802.11
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) DWDM
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 1 (11.11%) IGMP
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) SDH
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Designer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) LAN Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
1 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) ArchiMate
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (22.22%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (11.11%) JNCIE
3 1 (11.11%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) F5
3 5 (55.56%) Juniper
4 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 3 (33.33%) Nokia
5 2 (22.22%) Avaya
5 2 (22.22%) Ericsson
5 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
5 2 (22.22%) Ribbon
5 2 (22.22%) VMware
6 1 (11.11%) Google
6 1 (11.11%) IBM
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft