Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Palo Alto
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 5 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
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 39 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 +11
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 9 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.56% 3.57% 2.04%
As % of the Vendors category 4.66% 6.98% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 12
10th Percentile £311 £335 -
25th Percentile £463 £475 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £313
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +60.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £375
90th Percentile £538 £550 £488
South East median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -4.76%

All Vendors
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 193 258 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 54.83% 51.19% 49.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 174 306
10th Percentile £201 £203 £194
25th Percentile £208 £266 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.86% -6.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £589
90th Percentile £627 £596 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 12
10th Percentile £16.49 £11.71 £36.88
25th Percentile £19.20 £37.50 £44.07
Median hourly rate £27.00 £53.00 £60.88
Median % change year-on-year -49.06% -12.95% +35.29%
75th Percentile £32.08 £62.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £55.14 £71.90 -
South East median hourly rate £21.95 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -61.73% +11.53% +141.41%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Surrey

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Surrey

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 5 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
Leatherhead +1 5 £488 -4.88% 1
Guildford - 2 £306 -
Palo Alto
South East

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (22.22%) Akamai
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) NGFW
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 1 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Network Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Services Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Network Support
4 1 (11.11%) Network Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
2 4 (44.44%) Network Load Balancing
2 4 (44.44%) Runbook
2 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (22.22%) Network Management
4 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) B2B
5 1 (11.11%) Change Control
5 1 (11.11%) Data Encryption
5 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (11.11%) Security Management
5 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) SIEM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (44.44%) F5
2 3 (33.33%) Qualys
3 2 (22.22%) Aruba
3 2 (22.22%) Imperva
3 2 (22.22%) Mitel
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Extreme Networks