Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Palo Alto
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 21 May 2026, 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -53 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.26% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.52% 0.53% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £475 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 572 190 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 50.09% 50.13% 60.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 124 167
10th Percentile £364 £180 £244
25th Percentile £413 £357 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -5.58% -11.63%
75th Percentile £554 £538 £554
90th Percentile £638 £650 £622
Yorkshire median daily rate £496 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £15.27 - £12.63
25th Percentile £15.29 £18.10 £12.70
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% -15.86% +16.65%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.87 £41.88
90th Percentile £19.07 - £45.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.63
% change year-on-year +100.09% +45.23% -32.76%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 1
Palo Alto
Yorkshire

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Network Management
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco