Palo Alto Job Trends in the East of England

Palo Alto
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring knowledge or experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Palo Alto over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Palo Alto Networks.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 173 116
Rank change year-on-year +21 -57 +92
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 13 17 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.32% 0.45% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% 1.16% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 12
10th Percentile £42,525 £45,375 £60,250
25th Percentile £43,313 £46,250 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -41.18% +78.95%
75th Percentile £55,188 £59,063 -
90th Percentile £57,325 £62,125 -
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +4.17%

All Vendors
East of England

Palo Alto falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,185 1,462 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 29.14% 38.83% 45.18%
Number of salaries quoted 671 573 634
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Palo Alto relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the East of England

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Palo Alto.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in the East of England

Palo Alto
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +23 10 £44,000 - 8
Hertfordshire +7 3 £53,000 +11.58% 16
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) VPN
3 6 (46.15%) WAN
4 5 (38.46%) LAN
4 5 (38.46%) SAN
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (30.77%) WLAN
6 2 (15.38%) DNS
6 2 (15.38%) IPsec
6 2 (15.38%) Network Security
6 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
6 2 (15.38%) SSL
6 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (15.38%) VLAN
7 1 (7.69%) DMZ
7 1 (7.69%) FTP
7 1 (7.69%) HTTP
7 1 (7.69%) SMTP
7 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Data Centre
1 9 (69.23%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
1 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) AI
3 5 (38.46%) High Availability
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Asset Management
4 4 (30.77%) Business Continuity
4 4 (30.77%) Change Management
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Information Security
4 4 (30.77%) IT Governance
4 4 (30.77%) ITSM
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) CCNA
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) CCNP
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (30.77%) FortiGate
2 2 (15.38%) Nagios
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) CrowdStrike
2 9 (69.23%) Fortinet
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco
4 5 (38.46%) Veeam
5 4 (30.77%) Dell
5 4 (30.77%) VMware
6 2 (15.38%) Blue Coat
6 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
6 2 (15.38%) F5
7 1 (7.69%) Aruba
7 1 (7.69%) Darktrace
7 1 (7.69%) LogRhythm
7 1 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (7.69%) Splunk
7 1 (7.69%) Zscaler