Palo Alto Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Palo Alto
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 September 2026, 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 0.71% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% +29.87%

All Vendors
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 71 42 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 50.35% 47.73% 26.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 34 15
10th Percentile £163 £326 £141
25th Percentile £422 £525 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £300
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +91.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £460
90th Percentile £675 £659 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 1
10th Percentile £13.38 £16.15 -
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.88 £65.00
Median hourly rate £18.79 £19.17 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -72.61% +278.38%
75th Percentile £20.92 £21.88 £75.00
90th Percentile - £22.85 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £26.13
% change year-on-year -28.33% +14.83% +13.59%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 30 September 2026. 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
Worcester - 1 - -
Palo Alto
West Midlands

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki