Palo Alto Contracts

Palo Alto
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 289 298
Rank change year-on-year +70 +9 +162
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 367 353 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.26% 0.81% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 1.91% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 249 375
10th Percentile £378 £378 £310
25th Percentile £425 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £628 £663 £613
90th Percentile £769 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £481
% change year-on-year -2.91% +7.17% +6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 24
10th Percentile - - £51.59
25th Percentile - £58.50 £58.03
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £62.62
Median % change year-on-year - +0.61% -9.32%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £80.25
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +1.61% -10.21%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +47 298 £523 +0.53% 169
UK excluding London +62 177 £500 -2.91% 107
Work from Home +74 152 £536 -2.55% 119
London +26 126 £513 -2.38% 77
North of England +60 69 £550 +25.90% 33
North West +39 63 £550 +26.82% 20
South East +19 43 £475 -21.49% 24
South West +45 25 £540 -16.45% 12
Scotland +20 17 £412 -25.43% 15
Midlands +21 15 £546 -9.08% 13
West Midlands +13 12 £551 -26.53% 12
East of England +23 6 £500 +11.11% 5
Yorkshire +19 5 £625 +13.64% 12
Wales +8 4 £450 -5.26%
East Midlands +10 3 £430 +32.31% 1
North East - 1 £325 - 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 113 (30.79%) Azure
2 62 (16.89%) AWS
3 42 (11.44%) PaaS
4 40 (10.90%) SaaS
5 34 (9.26%) GCP
6 31 (8.45%) IaaS
7 21 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (4.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 10 (2.72%) Entra ID
11 8 (2.18%) Asana
11 8 (2.18%) Slack
12 6 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (1.36%) Akamai
14 3 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.82%) GitHub
14 3 (0.82%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.82%) OneDrive
15 2 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 273 (74.39%) Firewall
2 117 (31.88%) VPN
3 116 (31.61%) BGP
4 109 (29.70%) OSPF
5 108 (29.43%) WAN
6 89 (24.25%) Network Security
7 68 (18.53%) Wireless
8 63 (17.17%) Cisco ASA
8 63 (17.17%) DNS
9 59 (16.08%) SD-WAN
10 58 (15.80%) Wi-Fi
11 57 (15.53%) LAN
12 55 (14.99%) TCP/IP
13 51 (13.90%) IPsec
14 49 (13.35%) Cisco Nexus
15 44 (11.99%) NGFW
16 43 (11.72%) Cisco Firepower
17 38 (10.35%) DHCP
18 36 (9.81%) Cisco ISE
18 36 (9.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.27%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.27%) MySQL
2 1 (0.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.18%) JIRA
2 6 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.09%) GitLab
3 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.54%) Git
5 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 68 (18.53%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.90%) Finance
3 26 (7.08%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.81%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.00%) Legal
7 7 (1.91%) Military
8 6 (1.63%) Banking
8 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.63%) Marketing
9 5 (1.36%) Law
9 5 (1.36%) Local Government
10 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.82%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.54%) Advertising
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 173 (47.14%) Network Engineer
2 64 (17.44%) Architect
3 34 (9.26%) Senior
4 33 (8.99%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 32 (8.72%) Technical Architect
6 26 (7.08%) Security Engineer
7 25 (6.81%) Support Engineer
8 23 (6.27%) Cloud Architect
9 22 (5.99%) Consultant
10 20 (5.45%) Network Architect
10 20 (5.45%) Security Architect
11 18 (4.90%) Cloud Native Architect
12 17 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (4.36%) Network Support
13 16 (4.36%) Network Support Engineer
14 15 (4.09%) IT Engineer
14 15 (4.09%) Senior Network Engineer
15 13 (3.54%) Network Security Engineer
16 12 (3.27%) Network Security Architect
17 11 (3.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.99%) 802.1X
2 16 (4.36%) ADO
3 4 (1.09%) JSON
4 2 (0.54%) XML
5 1 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.27%) LDAP
5 1 (0.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 64 (17.44%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.27%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.45%) PKI
4 17 (4.63%) Anti-Spyware
4 17 (4.63%) Video Conferencing
5 16 (4.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.72%) Blackberry
7 10 (2.72%) CSOC
8 8 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.82%) Blog
12 3 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.54%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.90%) Windows
2 18 (4.90%) Linux
3 14 (3.81%) VMS
4 12 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.36%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.82%) Unix
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (15.53%) Migration
2 54 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (12.26%) Network Design
5 42 (11.44%) SIEM
6 39 (10.63%) Load Balancing
7 36 (9.81%) Agile
7 36 (9.81%) Network Management
8 31 (8.45%) Network Monitoring
9 28 (7.63%) ITIL
9 28 (7.63%) Security Operations
10 26 (7.08%) Cloud Security
10 26 (7.08%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (5.99%) Impact Assessments
11 22 (5.99%) Incident Response
11 22 (5.99%) Network Architecture
11 22 (5.99%) Roadmaps
12 21 (5.72%) Root Cause Analysis
13 20 (5.45%) CI/CD
13 20 (5.45%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 32 (8.72%) Python
2 19 (5.18%) Bicep
3 14 (3.81%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.63%) SQL
5 4 (1.09%) Bash
6 1 (0.27%) Java
6 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.27%) Perl
6 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 115 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 73 (19.89%) Cisco Certification
4 57 (15.53%) CCNP
5 24 (6.54%) Degree
6 21 (5.72%) CCNA
6 21 (5.72%) DV Cleared
6 21 (5.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (3.00%) MCSE
7 11 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.45%) CCIE
9 8 (2.18%) CISSP
10 7 (1.91%) GIAC
11 6 (1.63%) SANS
12 5 (1.36%) CCSA
12 5 (1.36%) CCSE
13 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.09%) Check Point Certification
13 4 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.09%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.36%) NIST
2 14 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.27%) NCSC
4 11 (3.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.09%) GDPR
7 3 (0.82%) SLA
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
8 2 (0.54%) QA
9 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 33 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (5.72%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.18%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (4.63%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.82%) vSphere
6 2 (0.54%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.27%) iptables
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (13.08%) Terraform
2 20 (5.45%) Ansible
3 11 (3.00%) FortiGate
4 10 (2.72%) Cisco Prime
5 7 (1.91%) QRadar
6 6 (1.63%) CASB
6 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.09%) SCCM
8 3 (0.82%) Nagios
8 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.54%) Grafana
9 2 (0.54%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.54%) OPNET
10 1 (0.27%) Cacti
10 1 (0.27%) Graylog
10 1 (0.27%) Icinga
10 1 (0.27%) logstash
10 1 (0.27%) Plesk
10 1 (0.27%) TrustSec
10 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 267 (72.75%) Cisco
2 93 (25.34%) CheckPoint
3 71 (19.35%) Fortinet
4 65 (17.71%) F5
5 52 (14.17%) Meraki
6 49 (13.35%) Microsoft
7 47 (12.81%) Juniper
8 41 (11.17%) VMware
9 40 (10.90%) SolarWinds
10 29 (7.90%) Splunk
11 25 (6.81%) Aruba
12 24 (6.54%) Zscaler
13 22 (5.99%) Infoblox
14 16 (4.36%) ServiceNow
15 14 (3.81%) Google
16 13 (3.54%) Nokia
17 12 (3.27%) Ericsson
18 11 (3.00%) Red Hat
19 10 (2.72%) Avaya
19 10 (2.72%) Ribbon