Palo Alto Job Trends in the North of England

Palo Alto
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North 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 20 February 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 229 269
Rank change year-on-year -43 +40 +79
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 11 48 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.085% 0.61% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 1.77% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8 42 61
10th Percentile £47,300 £43,750 -
25th Percentile £50,375 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +4.76% +2.76%
75th Percentile £68,125 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,875 £71,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%

All Vendors
North 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,522 2,717 4,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 27.36% 34.76% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,010 1,397 3,702
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £38,500 £32,451
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -11.30%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the North of England

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in the North of England

Palo Alto
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
North West -25 8 £52,750 -4.09% 11
North East -12 2 £77,500 +106.67% 1
Yorkshire -40 1 £60,000 -2.04% 8
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) BGP
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (36.36%) IPsec
2 4 (36.36%) OSPF
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (27.27%) EIGRP
3 3 (27.27%) HSRP
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) Network Security
3 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (18.18%) VLAN
4 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 2 (18.18%) Wireless
4 2 (18.18%) WLAN
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) MPLS
5 1 (9.09%) NGN
5 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IT Architect
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Network Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
1 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
1 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
2 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
2 1 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) High Availability
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL
2 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
2 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Network Design
2 1 (9.09%) Observability
2 1 (9.09%) Programme Management
2 1 (9.09%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) CCNP
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
3 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
4 2 (18.18%) Aruba
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (9.09%) F5
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) Juniper
5 1 (9.09%) Okta
5 1 (9.09%) SAP
5 1 (9.09%) Trend Micro
5 1 (9.09%) Zscaler