Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 May 2018

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Palo Alto over the 6 months to 21 May 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

Palo Alto
England > London
6 months to
21 May 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 495 320 467
Rank change year-on-year -175 +147 +67
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 358 681 488
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in London 0.52% 1.00% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 2.29% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 305 598 430
London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £42,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £80,375 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.48% +2.86% +10.53%

Palo Alto is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in London.

All Vendors
London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 29,799 29,726 35,915
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in London 43.27% 43.66% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 23,455 24,161 30,345
London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +4.55% - +3.77%
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% -

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in London

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Palo Alto in London.

Salary trend for Palo Alto in London

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in London

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Palo Alto in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2018.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in London

Palo Alto
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
Central London -73 81 £57,500 +9.52% 8
West London -1 23 £50,000 +33.33% 1
South London -15 10 £46,250 +7.56%
East London -12 7 £65,000 +13.04% 7
North London -7 5 £62,500 +30.21%
Palo Alto
England

For the 6 months to 21 May 2018, IT jobs citing Palo Alto also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region with a requirement for Palo Alto.

1 275 (76.82%) Cisco
2 266 (74.30%) Firewall
3 164 (45.81%) Cisco Certification
4 137 (38.27%) Network Security
5 135 (37.71%) CheckPoint
6 128 (35.75%) CCNP
7 127 (35.47%) F5
8 110 (30.73%) Juniper
9 104 (29.05%) Cisco ASA
10 96 (26.82%) VPN
10 96 (26.82%) Finance
11 95 (26.54%) WAN
12 87 (24.30%) Microsoft
13 86 (24.02%) LAN
13 86 (24.02%) BGP
14 82 (22.91%) CCIE
15 77 (21.51%) OSPF
16 72 (20.11%) Wireless
17 71 (19.83%) Fortinet
18 65 (18.16%) CISSP
19 59 (16.48%) Windows
19 59 (16.48%) Data Centre
20 58 (16.20%) MPLS
21 57 (15.92%) TCP/IP
22 55 (15.36%) IPsec
23 54 (15.08%) Active Directory
23 54 (15.08%) Linux
24 52 (14.53%) Cisco Nexus
25 51 (14.25%) SIEM
25 51 (14.25%) Problem-Solving

Palo Alto
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (5.59%) MS Exchange
2 15 (4.19%) Skype for Business
3 14 (3.91%) CMS
3 14 (3.91%) Exchange Server 2013
4 13 (3.63%) SharePoint
5 12 (3.35%) Apache
5 12 (3.35%) Apache Spark
6 11 (3.07%) Exchange Server 2010
7 9 (2.51%) IIS
8 8 (2.23%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (1.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.28%) Tradar
Cloud Services
1 32 (8.94%) Microsoft Azure
2 25 (6.98%) Amazon AWS
3 20 (5.59%) SaaS
4 19 (5.31%) Office 365
5 13 (3.63%) PaaS
6 10 (2.79%) Mimecast
7 9 (2.51%) G Suite
8 3 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.56%) Azure Active Directory
10 1 (0.28%) GitHub
10 1 (0.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 266 (74.30%) Firewall
2 137 (38.27%) Network Security
3 104 (29.05%) Cisco ASA
4 96 (26.82%) VPN
5 95 (26.54%) WAN
6 86 (24.02%) BGP
6 86 (24.02%) LAN
7 77 (21.51%) OSPF
8 72 (20.11%) Wireless
9 58 (16.20%) MPLS
10 57 (15.92%) TCP/IP
11 55 (15.36%) IPsec
12 52 (14.53%) Cisco Nexus
13 41 (11.45%) Cisco ISE
14 40 (11.17%) HSRP
15 39 (10.89%) Cisco Firepower
15 39 (10.89%) Wi-Fi
16 38 (10.61%) DNS
17 37 (10.34%) DHCP
18 36 (10.06%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.59%) Big Data
2 12 (3.35%) Hadoop
3 7 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.56%) SQL Server 2014
4 2 (0.56%) SQL Server 2016
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (2.23%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (0.84%) Git (software)
3 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) Metasploit
General
1 96 (26.82%) Finance
2 35 (9.78%) Banking
3 12 (3.35%) Telecoms
4 11 (3.07%) Advertising
5 10 (2.79%) Retail
6 9 (2.51%) Law
7 7 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.68%) Local Government
9 4 (1.12%) Legal
9 4 (1.12%) Marketing
10 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Billing
12 1 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 179 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 63 (17.60%) Senior Network Engineer
3 54 (15.08%) Security Engineer
4 35 (9.78%) Cisco Engineer
5 34 (9.50%) Network Security Engineer
6 32 (8.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 29 (8.10%) Architect
8 27 (7.54%) Consultant
9 26 (7.26%) Security Consultant
10 25 (6.98%) Analyst
11 23 (6.42%) Security Architect
12 22 (6.15%) Network Consultant
12 22 (6.15%) Network Security Consultant
13 20 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (5.03%) Security Analyst
15 17 (4.75%) Administrator
16 13 (3.63%) Senior Cisco Engineer
16 13 (3.63%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
17 12 (3.35%) Support Engineer
18 11 (3.07%) Cisco Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.85%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (3.63%) Middleware
3 12 (3.35%) XMPP
4 5 (1.40%) PCRE
4 5 (1.40%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.12%) Apache Flex
6 3 (0.84%) LDAP
7 2 (0.56%) WSH
8 1 (0.28%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.48%) Data Centre
2 27 (7.54%) Computer Science
3 23 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.91%) Video Conferencing
5 13 (3.63%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.79%) Fintech
7 10 (2.79%) Replication
8 9 (2.51%) Clustering
8 9 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (2.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (2.23%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.23%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.96%) DataPower
10 7 (1.96%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 6 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.68%) PKI
12 3 (0.84%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.56%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.48%) Windows
2 54 (15.08%) Linux
3 44 (12.29%) Windows Server
4 24 (6.70%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (5.59%) Unix
6 15 (4.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (3.91%) Windows 10
8 9 (2.51%) CentOS
9 8 (2.23%) Android
9 8 (2.23%) Debian
9 8 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (2.23%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.96%) Kali Linux
10 7 (1.96%) Windows 7
11 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.12%) Mac OS X
12 4 (1.12%) Windows XP
13 2 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
1 51 (14.25%) SIEM
2 39 (10.89%) Information Security
2 39 (10.89%) Load Balancing
3 37 (10.34%) ITIL
4 34 (9.50%) Change Management
4 34 (9.50%) High Availability
5 33 (9.22%) Presales
6 29 (8.10%) Business Continuity
6 29 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (7.26%) Analytics
8 25 (6.98%) Network Monitoring
9 24 (6.70%) Security Operations
9 24 (6.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 21 (5.87%) Capacity Planning
10 21 (5.87%) Vulnerability Management
11 20 (5.59%) Incident Management
11 20 (5.59%) Time Management
12 19 (5.31%) Mentoring
13 18 (5.03%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.22%) Python
2 15 (4.19%) Bash Shell
3 14 (3.91%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.96%) Perl
5 6 (1.68%) Ruby
6 5 (1.40%) SQL
7 4 (1.12%) PHP
8 2 (0.56%) C
8 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.56%) VB
9 1 (0.28%) Go
9 1 (0.28%) Java
Qualifications
1 164 (45.81%) Cisco Certification
2 128 (35.75%) CCNP
3 82 (22.91%) CCIE
4 65 (18.16%) CISSP
5 47 (13.13%) Degree
6 39 (10.89%) CCNA
7 35 (9.78%) CEH
8 28 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (6.70%) SANS
10 22 (6.15%) CISA
11 16 (4.47%) CISM
11 16 (4.47%) GIAC
11 16 (4.47%) Security Cleared
12 15 (4.19%) SC Cleared
13 13 (3.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 12 (3.35%) GCIH
14 12 (3.35%) OSCP
15 11 (3.07%) JNCIP
16 10 (2.79%) CCSE
17 9 (2.51%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (4.19%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.35%) GPG13
4 9 (2.51%) PMO
5 6 (1.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 6 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 6 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.40%) SLA
7 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.84%) GDPR
8 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 54 (15.08%) Active Directory
2 38 (10.61%) Snort
3 30 (8.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.19%) VMware NSX
5 12 (3.35%) HDFS
6 9 (2.51%) vSphere
7 8 (2.23%) DFS Replication
8 6 (1.68%) pfSense
9 5 (1.40%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (1.12%) XenApp
11 2 (0.56%) NFS
11 2 (0.56%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.56%) XenServer
12 1 (0.28%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (6.15%) Ansible
2 20 (5.59%) FortiGate
2 20 (5.59%) Suricata
3 15 (4.19%) OpenVAS
4 14 (3.91%) Backup Exec
4 14 (3.91%) Cisco CUCM
5 13 (3.63%) SCOM
6 11 (3.07%) Cacti
6 11 (3.07%) Nessus
7 10 (2.79%) AirWatch
8 9 (2.51%) Puppet
9 8 (2.23%) CASB
9 8 (2.23%) Nagios
9 8 (2.23%) QRadar
9 8 (2.23%) SCCM
10 7 (1.96%) Cisco UCCE
11 6 (1.68%) OSSEC
11 6 (1.68%) RSA enVision
11 6 (1.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (1.40%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 275 (76.82%) Cisco
2 135 (37.71%) CheckPoint
3 127 (35.47%) F5
4 110 (30.73%) Juniper
5 87 (24.30%) Microsoft
6 71 (19.83%) Fortinet
7 50 (13.97%) VMware
8 33 (9.22%) SolarWinds
9 29 (8.10%) McAfee
10 24 (6.70%) HP
11 21 (5.87%) Citrix
11 21 (5.87%) FireEye
11 21 (5.87%) LogRhythm
11 21 (5.87%) Veeam
12 20 (5.59%) Aruba
13 19 (5.31%) Sophos
14 18 (5.03%) ForeScout
14 18 (5.03%) SonicWALL
14 18 (5.03%) Symantec
15 17 (4.75%) Splunk