Palo Alto Contracts in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 96 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +47
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 12 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 0.77% 0.96%
As % of the Vendors category 1.91% 1.78% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 19
10th Percentile £477 £500 £288
25th Percentile £537 £575 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +66.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £775 £663
90th Percentile £585 £978 £700
England median daily rate £521 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +4.00% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 628 841 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.69% 43.19% 49.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 538 735
10th Percentile £185 £250 £213
25th Percentile £320 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 53 29
10th Percentile £12.25 £11.07 £13.15
25th Percentile £14.86 £13.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%
75th Percentile £29.25 £28.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £31.43 £55.00 £72.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire +5 8 £551 -26.53%
Birmingham +16 3 £521 -34.94% 13
Solihull - 1 - -
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Network Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) CSOC
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (66.67%) VMS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Event Correlation
1 8 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (8.33%) Network Design
2 1 (8.33%) Network Management
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security Management
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (8.33%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CCNA
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Cisco
2 9 (75.00%) Fortinet
3 8 (66.67%) F5
3 8 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 8 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 8 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 8 (66.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Apple
4 1 (8.33%) Juniper