Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Palo Alto
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 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
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.36% - -
As % of the Vendors category 4.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £625 £325 -
% change year-on-year +92.31% - -

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 144 119 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 27.96% 47.79% 44.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 86 57
10th Percentile £367 £213 £188
25th Percentile £419 £329 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -14.41%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £625
90th Percentile £638 £625 £685
North East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 8
10th Percentile £26.66 - £13.09
25th Percentile £58.75 - £13.99
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +230.26% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £29.06
90th Percentile - - £60.00
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £35.44 £17.50
% change year-on-year +83.43% +102.49% -64.29%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 5 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 £625 - 5
Palo Alto
North East

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) OCI
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) BIG-IP
2 6 (85.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (85.71%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) VXLAN
3 5 (71.43%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (71.43%) SD-WAN
4 4 (57.14%) WAN
5 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (42.86%) WLAN
6 1 (14.29%) Network Security
6 1 (14.29%) NGFW
6 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Load Balancing
4 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) High Availability
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
6 2 (28.57%) Network Design
6 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
7 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
7 1 (14.29%) DevOps
7 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
7 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
7 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) F5
2 5 (71.43%) Arista
3 4 (57.14%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint