Palo Alto Contracts in Wales

Palo Alto
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 4 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.37% 0.25% 1.89%
As % of the Vendors category 3.17% 0.65% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £233 - £258
25th Percentile £356 £463 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -21.74%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £550
90th Percentile - - £599
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -

All Vendors
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 126 154 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 43.30% 39.19% 45.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 107 215
10th Percentile £185 £206 £189
25th Percentile £250 £419 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £484 £563 £550
90th Percentile £550 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 6
10th Percentile £14.11 £11.02 £14.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.56 £16.13
Median hourly rate £21.76 £39.50 £24.53
Median % change year-on-year -44.92% +61.03% +9.02%
75th Percentile £32.25 £86.45 £44.31
90th Percentile £41.25 £87.80 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
South Wales +10 4 £450 -5.26% 2
Palo Alto
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) IPv4
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Ekahau
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Snow
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk