Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in West London

Palo Alto
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 11 December 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
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 29 48
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 +9
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.02% 1.83% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 2.03% 5.19% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £300
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +64.58% -24.71%
London median daily rate £500 £550 £579
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.01% +15.40%

All Vendors
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 148 77 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 50.17% 35.32% 44.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 59 151
10th Percentile £204 £218 £189
25th Percentile £375 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% +6.75%
75th Percentile £538 £576 £600
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £31.94 £17.76 £29.50
25th Percentile £32.62 £21.51 £31.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.09 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.51% -26.47% +44.47%
75th Percentile £36.44 £47.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £39.03 £79.18 £67.00
London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £38.45
% change year-on-year -31.10% -5.08% +50.18%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in West London

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Palo Alto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 11 December 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
Hillingdon -12 2 - -
Palo Alto
London

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) B2B
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft