Palo Alto Contracts in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 236 223
Rank change year-on-year +62 -13 +142
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 170 160 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 0.78% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 2.70% 1.84% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 122 175
10th Percentile £363 £400 £288
25th Percentile £413 £432 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +8.97% -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £533
90th Percentile £628 £775 £585
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 17
10th Percentile - - £51.82
25th Percentile - - £52.13
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £80.25
UK median hourly rate - - £63.23
% change year-on-year - - -8.43%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,298 8,699 10,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.91% 42.47% 44.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,990 5,242 7,113
10th Percentile £213 £206 £205
25th Percentile £365 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 958 477
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +100.53%
75th Percentile £58.72 £59.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +50 68 £550 +26.82% 45
North West +41 62 £550 +26.89% 23
South East +14 39 £475 -21.49% 64
South West +42 24 £545 -15.71% 12
Scotland +24 16 £412 -25.43% 19
Midlands +13 15 £546 -27.27% 10
West Midlands +16 12 £551 -26.53% 9
East of England +20 6 £500 +11.11% 5
Yorkshire +16 5 £625 +13.64% 18
Wales +6 4 £450 -5.26% 2
East Midlands +9 3 £430 +32.31% 1
North East - 1 £325 - 5
Palo Alto
UK

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.59%) Apache
2 1 (0.59%) CMS
2 1 (0.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.59%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.71%) Azure
2 19 (11.18%) AWS
3 16 (9.41%) PaaS
4 13 (7.65%) SaaS
5 8 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.94%) GCP
6 5 (2.94%) IaaS
7 4 (2.35%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.76%) Akamai
8 3 (1.76%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.18%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.59%) GitHub
10 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.59%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 126 (74.12%) Firewall
2 58 (34.12%) BGP
3 57 (33.53%) OSPF
4 55 (32.35%) WAN
5 51 (30.00%) VPN
6 48 (28.24%) Cisco ASA
7 42 (24.71%) Cisco Firepower
8 40 (23.53%) Network Security
9 39 (22.94%) Wireless
10 36 (21.18%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (18.82%) Cisco Nexus
12 31 (18.24%) IPsec
13 29 (17.06%) SD-WAN
14 28 (16.47%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (16.47%) EIGRP
15 26 (15.29%) LAN
16 24 (14.12%) HSRP
17 22 (12.94%) NetScaler
18 19 (11.18%) Cisco Wireless
19 17 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.59%) InfluxDB
1 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.18%) JIRA
2 1 (0.59%) Git
2 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (12.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.24%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.47%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.35%) Legal
5 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.76%) Finance
5 3 (1.76%) Law
5 3 (1.76%) Local Government
5 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.18%) Advertising
6 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.59%) Aviation
7 1 (0.59%) Banking
7 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.59%) Marketing
7 1 (0.59%) Military
7 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (57.65%) Network Engineer
2 30 (17.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 17 (10.00%) Architect
4 15 (8.82%) Senior
5 8 (4.71%) Analyst
5 8 (4.71%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (4.71%) Technical Architect
6 7 (4.12%) Network Architect
7 6 (3.53%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (3.53%) Consultant
7 6 (3.53%) Security Engineer
8 5 (2.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 5 (2.94%) IT Engineer
8 5 (2.94%) Senior Architect
8 5 (2.94%) Senior Technical Architect
9 4 (2.35%) Network Security Engineer
9 4 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (1.76%) Network Analyst
10 3 (1.76%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.59%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.59%) LDAP
2 1 (0.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (7.65%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (5.88%) Blackberry
4 8 (4.71%) CSOC
5 6 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.53%) PKI
5 6 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.76%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.76%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.76%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.18%) NHS
7 2 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.24%) Windows
2 10 (5.88%) Linux
3 9 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.71%) VMS
5 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.65%) Network Design
2 29 (17.06%) Load Balancing
2 29 (17.06%) Network Management
3 27 (15.88%) Migration
4 22 (12.94%) Impact Assessments
4 22 (12.94%) SIEM
5 21 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (10.59%) Network Architecture
7 15 (8.82%) ITIL
8 14 (8.24%) Customer Requirements
9 13 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (7.06%) Commercial Awareness
10 12 (7.06%) Roadmaps
10 12 (7.06%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (6.47%) Network Monitoring
11 11 (6.47%) Security Operations
12 10 (5.88%) Service Design
12 10 (5.88%) TOGAF
13 9 (5.29%) Thought Leadership
13 9 (5.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.47%) Python
2 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.59%) Bash
3 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.59%) Perl
3 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (57.65%) Security Cleared
2 91 (53.53%) SC Cleared
3 51 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (22.94%) CCNP
5 17 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 15 (8.82%) CCNA
6 15 (8.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (4.71%) CCIE
8 6 (3.53%) CCSA
8 6 (3.53%) CCSE
8 6 (3.53%) Check Point Certification
9 5 (2.94%) Degree
9 5 (2.94%) MCSE
9 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.76%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.76%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.18%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (4.12%) NIST
2 6 (3.53%) NCSC
3 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 20 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (5.29%) VMware NSX
3 8 (4.71%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.76%) vSphere
6 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.59%) KVM
6 1 (0.59%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (5.88%) Ansible
2 6 (3.53%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (2.94%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.35%) QRadar
5 3 (1.76%) SCCM
6 2 (1.18%) Terraform
7 1 (0.59%) CASB
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (0.59%) Grafana
7 1 (0.59%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.59%) Nagios
7 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 153 (90.00%) Cisco
2 33 (19.41%) CheckPoint
3 31 (18.24%) F5
4 25 (14.71%) Meraki
5 24 (14.12%) SolarWinds
5 24 (14.12%) VMware
6 22 (12.94%) Juniper
7 19 (11.18%) Fortinet
8 17 (10.00%) Splunk
9 16 (9.41%) Microsoft
10 12 (7.06%) Ericsson
10 12 (7.06%) Nokia
10 12 (7.06%) ServiceNow
11 10 (5.88%) Avaya
11 10 (5.88%) Ribbon
12 9 (5.29%) Aruba
12 9 (5.29%) Red Hat
13 4 (2.35%) Google
14 3 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (1.76%) Veeam