Palo Alto Job Trends in England

Palo Alto
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 13 June 2026, 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
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 440 501
Rank change year-on-year +37 +61 -68
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 324 194 384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 1.53% 1.14% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 200 173 323
10th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -1.29%
75th Percentile £85,313 £82,500 £65,921
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +16.67% +6.67% -6.25%

All Vendors
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,218 16,963 32,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.70% 43.01% 34.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,735 9,498 22,829
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,750 £26,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £92,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in England

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Palo Alto.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in England

Palo Alto
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +80 170 £77,500 -3.13% 25
South East +20 62 £58,750 +2.17% 36
North of England -47 37 £55,000 -4.35% 13
North West +5 30 £55,000 -4.35% 6
West Midlands -1 24 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Midlands -7 24 £65,000 - 2
South West -61 17 £52,500 -2.33% 3
East of England -19 8 £50,000 +38.89% 6
Yorkshire -46 6 £75,000 -11.76% 6
North East - 1 £65,576 - 1
Palo Alto
UK

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
1 15 (4.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 111 (34.26%) Azure
2 70 (21.60%) AWS
3 53 (16.36%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (7.72%) Serverless
5 22 (6.79%) Datadog
6 21 (6.48%) Entra ID
7 16 (4.94%) GCP
8 15 (4.63%) OpenShift
9 13 (4.01%) GitHub
9 13 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 10 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.09%) OCI
12 8 (2.47%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.47%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.16%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.16%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.85%) Apigee
14 6 (1.85%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 196 (60.49%) Firewall
2 132 (40.74%) WAN
3 102 (31.48%) Network Security
4 100 (30.86%) VPN
5 84 (25.93%) LAN
6 79 (24.38%) SD-WAN
7 69 (21.30%) BGP
8 65 (20.06%) DNS
8 65 (20.06%) VLAN
8 65 (20.06%) Wireless
9 56 (17.28%) OSPF
10 54 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
11 36 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (10.19%) Cisco Nexus
13 30 (9.26%) Cisco Firepower
14 29 (8.95%) DHCP
15 28 (8.64%) Cisco ASA
16 23 (7.10%) Cisco Wireless
16 23 (7.10%) MPLS
16 23 (7.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.23%) Big Data
2 3 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (7.72%) Snyk
2 6 (1.85%) Git
2 6 (1.85%) GitLab
2 6 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.93%) MLflow
General
1 89 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.74%) Finance
3 41 (12.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.10%) Telecoms
6 19 (5.86%) Banking
7 18 (5.56%) Marketing
7 18 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.56%) Retail
8 11 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.09%) Retail Banking
10 9 (2.78%) Legal
11 8 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.16%) Law
13 6 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.62%) Advertising
15 2 (0.62%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 121 (37.35%) Network Engineer
2 120 (37.04%) Senior
3 47 (14.51%) Architect
4 46 (14.20%) Senior Network Engineer
5 35 (10.80%) Security Engineer
6 32 (9.88%) Security Architect
7 28 (8.64%) Analyst
7 28 (8.64%) Senior Architect
8 27 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (7.72%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (7.72%) Cloud Security Architect
9 25 (7.72%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 25 (7.72%) Senior Security Architect
10 22 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (6.17%) Lead
12 19 (5.86%) Network Architect
13 18 (5.56%) Consultant
14 16 (4.94%) Security Analyst
14 16 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (4.63%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.32%) OAuth
1 14 (4.32%) SAML
2 13 (4.01%) 802.1X
2 13 (4.01%) YAML
3 10 (3.09%) REST
3 10 (3.09%) XML
3 10 (3.09%) XMPP
4 9 (2.78%) JSON
5 7 (2.16%) ADO
6 6 (1.85%) Jinja
6 6 (1.85%) YANG
7 4 (1.23%) RESTful
7 4 (1.23%) SOAP
7 4 (1.23%) Web Services
7 4 (1.23%) WSDL
8 3 (0.93%) CSS
8 3 (0.93%) Pandas
8 3 (0.93%) React
8 3 (0.93%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 80 (24.69%) Data Centre
2 33 (10.19%) Security Posture
3 20 (6.17%) PKI
4 16 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.09%) FlexPod
8 7 (2.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 7 (2.16%) Replication
9 6 (1.85%) CMDB
9 6 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.85%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.62%) CCTV
12 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.42%) Windows
2 25 (7.72%) Linux
3 20 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.47%) VMS
5 6 (1.85%) Unix
6 2 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.64%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (17.90%) CI/CD
3 57 (17.59%) Security Architecture
4 48 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 47 (14.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (13.58%) Business Continuity
7 42 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (12.65%) Cloud Security
8 41 (12.65%) Zero Trust
9 40 (12.35%) High Availability
10 38 (11.73%) ITIL
10 38 (11.73%) Roadmaps
10 38 (11.73%) SIEM
10 38 (11.73%) Vulnerability Management
11 37 (11.42%) Network Monitoring
12 36 (11.11%) AI
13 34 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 32 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (9.26%) Network Design
16 29 (8.95%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.59%) Python
2 22 (6.79%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.01%) JavaScript
4 11 (3.40%) SQL
5 7 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.85%) Bicep
7 3 (0.93%) R
8 2 (0.62%) Bash
Qualifications
1 76 (23.46%) Cisco Certification
2 68 (20.99%) CCNP
3 29 (8.95%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.64%) Degree
5 25 (7.72%) CCIE
5 25 (7.72%) CCNA
6 22 (6.79%) CISSP
7 20 (6.17%) Azure Certification
8 17 (5.25%) SC Cleared
9 13 (4.01%) CCSE
10 11 (3.40%) CEH
11 10 (3.09%) AWS Certification
12 9 (2.78%) JNCIP
13 8 (2.47%) CCIE Security
13 8 (2.47%) CCSA
13 8 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (2.47%) JNCIE
14 7 (2.16%) CISM
15 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
15 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.26%) NIST
2 27 (8.33%) GRC
3 26 (8.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (7.41%) PCI DSS
5 15 (4.63%) SLA
6 12 (3.70%) GDPR
7 7 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.16%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.23%) QA
10 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.31%) NCSC
11 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 32 (9.88%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.32%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.47%) vSphere
6 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.93%) Docker
9 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (15.43%) Ansible
2 36 (11.11%) Terraform
3 31 (9.57%) FortiGate
4 18 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 14 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.09%) Cisco CUCM
6 10 (3.09%) Grafana
7 9 (2.78%) Check_MK
8 8 (2.47%) CASB
8 8 (2.47%) SCCM
9 6 (1.85%) Packer
10 4 (1.23%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.31%) Nessus
12 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 195 (60.19%) Cisco
2 122 (37.65%) Microsoft
3 78 (24.07%) Fortinet
4 52 (16.05%) CrowdStrike
5 46 (14.20%) F5
6 40 (12.35%) CheckPoint
7 38 (11.73%) Aruba
8 35 (10.80%) VMware
9 34 (10.49%) Arista
9 34 (10.49%) Splunk
9 34 (10.49%) Tenable
10 29 (8.95%) Meraki
11 27 (8.33%) SolarWinds
11 27 (8.33%) Zscaler
12 26 (8.02%) Juniper
13 25 (7.72%) Qualys
14 19 (5.86%) Infoblox
15 15 (4.63%) ForeScout
15 15 (4.63%) ServiceNow
15 15 (4.63%) SevOne