Palo Alto Job Trends in the North East

Palo Alto
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 81 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 -33 +55
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 2 7 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.20% 0.52% 2.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% 1.75% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - £40,750 £41,900
25th Percentile £73,750 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -41.18% +104.20%
75th Percentile £81,250 £52,500 -
90th Percentile - £52,800 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Vendors
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 490 399 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 50.05% 29.87% 45.99%
Number of salaries quoted 267 183 207
10th Percentile - £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £45,000 £48,291
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% -6.81% +20.73%
75th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,100 £71,643 £72,200
England median annual salary £51,340 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +2.68%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the North East

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Tyne and Wear +12 2 £77,500 +106.67% 2
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) IT Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Aruba
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) VMware