Palo Alto Contracts in the Thames Valley

Palo Alto
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 112 134
Rank change year-on-year +36 +22 +20
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 26 33 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.72% 1.23% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 3.27% 2.56% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 10
10th Percentile £413 £527 £474
25th Percentile £450 £603 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £605 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +9.75% -9.36%
75th Percentile £630 £825 £600
90th Percentile - £915 £605
South East median daily rate £475 £605 £500
% change year-on-year -21.49% +21.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.95
25th Percentile - - £65.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.44
90th Percentile - - £80.78
South East median hourly rate - £63.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +1.61% -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Buckinghamshire +21 17 £618 -22.81% 6
Berkshire +20 9 £450 -25.62% 15
Palo Alto
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) IaaS
1 8 (30.77%) PaaS
1 8 (30.77%) SaaS
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) Firewall
2 12 (46.15%) VSAN
3 11 (42.31%) BGP
3 11 (42.31%) Network Security
3 11 (42.31%) OSPF
3 11 (42.31%) VPN
4 10 (38.46%) TCP/IP
5 9 (34.62%) VLAN
6 8 (30.77%) MPLS
6 8 (30.77%) SD-WAN
6 8 (30.77%) WAN
7 6 (23.08%) NGFW
8 5 (19.23%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (19.23%) DNS
9 4 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (11.54%) Internet
10 3 (11.54%) LAN
10 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (7.69%) SSL
12 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Military
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Architect
2 13 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 11 (42.31%) Senior
3 11 (42.31%) Senior Architect
3 11 (42.31%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (19.23%) Network Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (15.38%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior VMware Architect
6 2 (7.69%) VMware Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Principal Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Principal Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (42.31%) PKI
3 6 (23.08%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) DevSecOps
1 14 (53.85%) TOGAF
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (42.31%) ITIL
4 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 10 (38.46%) Continuous Delivery
4 10 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (38.46%) Microservices
4 10 (38.46%) Zachman Framework
5 9 (34.62%) IT Strategy
5 9 (34.62%) Technology Strategy
5 9 (34.62%) Use Case
6 8 (30.77%) Requirements Management
7 6 (23.08%) Matrix Organization
7 6 (23.08%) Security Operations
7 6 (23.08%) SIEM
8 5 (19.23%) Migration
8 5 (19.23%) Security Monitoring
8 5 (19.23%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) MCSE
2 11 (42.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (42.31%) SC Cleared
2 11 (42.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (26.92%) CCNP
3 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
5 4 (15.38%) CCSA
5 4 (15.38%) CCSE
5 4 (15.38%) Check Point Certification
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) CCIE
6 1 (3.85%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (50.00%) NIST
2 12 (46.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (46.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) VMware NSX
2 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) CASB
2 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.85%) QRadar
2 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Cisco
2 15 (57.69%) VMware
3 5 (19.23%) CheckPoint
4 4 (15.38%) Aruba
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.69%) Splunk
6 1 (3.85%) Zscaler