Palo Alto Contracts

Palo Alto
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Palo Alto over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 301 446
Rank change year-on-year +22 +145 -39
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 358 519 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.86% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 1.92% 2.02% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 372 312
10th Percentile £378 £310 £350
25th Percentile £431 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £669 £613 £575
90th Percentile £775 £738 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £483 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.28% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 24 3
10th Percentile - £51.59 £27.92
25th Percentile £58.50 £58.03 £43.35
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.62 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -9.32% +11.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.25 -
90th Percentile - £81.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year +1.61% -10.21% +63.43%

All Vendors
UK

Palo Alto is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,620 25,725 35,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.67% 42.85% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 17,221 23,382
10th Percentile £262 £270 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 709 893
10th Percentile £12.07 £15.24 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.00 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £43.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.49% +104.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £46.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% -0.70%

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 25 April 2024.

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 15 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 25 April 2024. 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 +59 318 £520 -0.48% 114
UK excluding London -6 167 £515 +6.67% 57
London +69 142 £525 -4.55% 62
Work from Home +20 122 £553 +5.45% 70
South East +11 66 £605 +21.00% 24
North of England +3 36 £437 +2.79% 5
North West +6 35 £434 +15.65% 3
South West +30 26 £583 +7.22% 3
Midlands +15 18 £600 +29.73% 7
West Midlands +20 15 £750 +66.67% 7
East of England +5 15 £425 -27.66% 9
Scotland -27 7 £550 +10.55% 6
East Midlands +13 3 £325 -53.57%
Wales +8 1 £475 +5.56% 1
Yorkshire +7 1 £550 - 1

Palo Alto
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 8 (2.23%) Confluence
2 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.84%) IIS
3 3 (0.84%) WordPress
4 2 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.96%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 93 (25.98%) Azure
2 55 (15.36%) AWS
3 21 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.03%) OCI
5 9 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (1.96%) GCP
6 7 (1.96%) GitHub
6 7 (1.96%) Route 53
6 7 (1.96%) Slack
7 6 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.68%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.68%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.68%) SaaS
8 5 (1.40%) Asana
8 5 (1.40%) AWS CloudTrail
8 5 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.12%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 262 (73.18%) Firewall
2 113 (31.56%) Network Security
2 113 (31.56%) WAN
3 100 (27.93%) Cisco ASA
4 97 (27.09%) LAN
5 93 (25.98%) VPN
6 87 (24.30%) BGP
7 84 (23.46%) OSPF
8 77 (21.51%) Wireless
9 62 (17.32%) SD-WAN
10 61 (17.04%) DNS
11 58 (16.20%) Cisco ISE
12 52 (14.53%) IPsec
13 49 (13.69%) Cisco Nexus
14 44 (12.29%) DHCP
15 43 (12.01%) Wi-Fi
16 40 (11.17%) WLAN
17 37 (10.34%) MPLS
18 32 (8.94%) EIGRP
19 30 (8.38%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (1.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (3.63%) Git
1 13 (3.63%) JIRA
2 6 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.12%) GitLab
3 4 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
General
1 61 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.80%) Finance
3 40 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 22 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.59%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.51%) Legal
8 7 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.68%) Banking
9 6 (1.68%) Marketing
10 5 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.12%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.12%) Electronics
11 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.56%) Law
14 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (51.12%) Network Engineer
2 62 (17.32%) Senior
3 51 (14.25%) Architect
4 42 (11.73%) Security Engineer
5 32 (8.94%) Senior Network Engineer
6 30 (8.38%) Network Security Engineer
7 23 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.87%) Network Specialist
9 18 (5.03%) Network Architect
10 16 (4.47%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 14 (3.91%) Cisco Engineer
11 14 (3.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 14 (3.91%) Consultant
12 12 (3.35%) Network Consultant
12 12 (3.35%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 11 (3.07%) Analyst
14 9 (2.51%) Security Architect
15 8 (2.23%) Firewall Engineer
15 8 (2.23%) Operations Engineer
15 8 (2.23%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.19%) Jinja
2 13 (3.63%) 802.1X
3 9 (2.51%) JSON
3 9 (2.51%) XML
4 8 (2.23%) NETCONF
4 8 (2.23%) YANG
5 5 (1.40%) Web Services
6 4 (1.12%) LDAP
6 4 (1.12%) Node.js
6 4 (1.12%) SAML
7 3 (0.84%) EDI
7 3 (0.84%) LAMP
7 3 (0.84%) RESTful
8 2 (0.56%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.28%) OAuth
9 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (29.89%) Data Centre
2 35 (9.78%) PKI
3 13 (3.63%) Replication
4 10 (2.79%) Operational Technology
4 10 (2.79%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.23%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.40%) Clustering
9 5 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.01%) Windows
2 34 (9.50%) Windows Server
3 29 (8.10%) Linux
4 16 (4.47%) Windows Server 2012
4 16 (4.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (4.19%) Windows 10
5 15 (4.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.35%) Windows XP
7 5 (1.40%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.12%) Unix
8 4 (1.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.56%) CentOS
10 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (14.80%) ITIL
3 43 (12.01%) Change Management
4 42 (11.73%) Migration
5 37 (10.34%) Network Design
6 33 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 31 (8.66%) Disaster Recovery
7 31 (8.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
9 29 (8.10%) Agile
9 29 (8.10%) DevOps
10 28 (7.82%) ITSM
11 26 (7.26%) Cloud Security
12 23 (6.42%) High Availability
12 23 (6.42%) Network Management
12 23 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (6.15%) Load Balancing
13 22 (6.15%) Storage Management
14 21 (5.87%) Mentoring
14 21 (5.87%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (14.25%) Python
2 25 (6.98%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.35%) Perl
3 12 (3.35%) Tcl
4 6 (1.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.84%) Bash
6 2 (0.56%) SQL
7 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 128 (35.75%) Cisco Certification
1 128 (35.75%) Security Cleared
2 113 (31.56%) CCNP
3 94 (26.26%) SC Cleared
4 52 (14.53%) CCNA
4 52 (14.53%) DV Cleared
5 35 (9.78%) Degree
6 29 (8.10%) CCIE
7 12 (3.35%) JNCIA
8 11 (3.07%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.23%) CISM
10 7 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.96%) CCSA
11 6 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.68%) CISSP
12 5 (1.40%) CCDP
12 5 (1.40%) CCIE Data Center
12 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.79%) SLA
2 6 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.40%) NCSC
4 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.28%) ISA99
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 37 (10.34%) VMware NSX
2 32 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (8.10%) Active Directory
4 19 (5.31%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.19%) Firmware
6 13 (3.63%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.40%) vSphere
9 2 (0.56%) Squid
10 1 (0.28%) Docker
10 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (10.89%) FortiGate
2 32 (8.94%) Terraform
3 28 (7.82%) Ansible
4 20 (5.59%) vCenter Server
5 15 (4.19%) SCCM
6 13 (3.63%) WSUS
7 12 (3.35%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (3.35%) Nessus
7 12 (3.35%) NetBackup
7 12 (3.35%) SCOM
8 8 (2.23%) SolarWinds Orion
9 7 (1.96%) Kubernetes
10 5 (1.40%) CSIRT
11 4 (1.12%) CASB
11 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.84%) Kibana
12 3 (0.84%) Puppet
13 2 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.56%) Nagios
13 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 245 (68.44%) Cisco
2 86 (24.02%) Juniper
3 66 (18.44%) CheckPoint
3 66 (18.44%) F5
4 65 (18.16%) Fortinet
5 61 (17.04%) VMware
6 53 (14.80%) Microsoft
7 39 (10.89%) SolarWinds
8 37 (10.34%) Dell
9 30 (8.38%) Zscaler
10 28 (7.82%) Meraki
11 24 (6.70%) Extreme Networks
11 24 (6.70%) Veeam
12 19 (5.31%) Infoblox
13 18 (5.03%) Aruba
13 18 (5.03%) Citrix
13 18 (5.03%) Symantec
14 14 (3.91%) EMC
14 14 (3.91%) HP
14 14 (3.91%) Oracle