Palo Alto Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 86 115
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 +42
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 11 40 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 1.78% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% 3.61% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 29 15
10th Percentile - £463 £474
25th Percentile - £505 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -3.51% +4.49%
75th Percentile - £608 £628
90th Percentile - - £688
South East median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 - £62.00

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 909 1,107 1,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.46% 49.29% 50.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 643 930
10th Percentile £250 £263 £232
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £712 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.39% +3.51% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 42 45
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.20 £21.56 £18.08
Median hourly rate £16.75 £58.17 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -71.21% +79.99% +108.52%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £64.50
90th Percentile £54.25 £75.21 £70.30
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -65.13% +9.24% +162.50%

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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Palo Alto.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
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 18 September 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
Berkshire -3 7 £450 -25.62% 3
Oxfordshire -2 4 - -
Palo Alto
South East

Palo Alto
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) Firewall
1 10 (90.91%) TCP/IP
1 10 (90.91%) VPN
2 7 (63.64%) Network Security
3 6 (54.55%) BGP
3 6 (54.55%) OSPF
3 6 (54.55%) VLAN
4 4 (36.36%) DHCP
4 4 (36.36%) DNS
4 4 (36.36%) Wireless
5 1 (9.09%) IPFIX
5 1 (9.09%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Service Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Service Support Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Mac OS
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Security Monitoring
1 7 (63.64%) SIEM
2 6 (54.55%) Proactive Monitoring
2 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
3 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) ITSM
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
3 4 (36.36%) Time Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (54.55%) CCNP
2 6 (54.55%) CCSA
2 6 (54.55%) CCSE
2 6 (54.55%) Check Point Certification
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
4 4 (36.36%) A+ Certification
4 4 (36.36%) Degree
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 1 (9.09%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) CheckPoint
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk