Palo Alto Jobs in the North West

Palo Alto
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 May 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 246 221
Rank change year-on-year -5 -25 +75
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 36 43 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.45% 0.44% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 1.38% 1.32% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 36 31 53
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,014 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,185 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +11.25% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,593 £77,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,001 £59,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.78% +5.69%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,617 3,256 3,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.71% 33.05% 45.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,492 2,410 1,801
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,943 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £80,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +3.64%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the North West

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the North West.

Salary trend for Palo Alto in the North West

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in the North West

Palo Alto
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Lancashire - 21 £55,000 - 3
Manchester +35 7 £57,500 -11.54% 19
Cumbria - 6 £56,250 - 2
Merseyside +37 1 £80,000 - 1
Cheshire +11 1 £42,500 -30.54%
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.78%) Azure
1 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
1 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (97.22%) Firewall
2 27 (75.00%) WAN
3 25 (69.44%) LAN
4 8 (22.22%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (19.44%) BGP
6 6 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (16.67%) EIGRP
6 6 (16.67%) IPsec
6 6 (16.67%) OSPF
7 5 (13.89%) HSRP
8 3 (8.33%) Network Security
9 2 (5.56%) SD-WAN
10 1 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (2.78%) DHCP
10 1 (2.78%) Ethernet
10 1 (2.78%) Junos
10 1 (2.78%) SNMP
10 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (2.78%) Wireless
10 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 24 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 24 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (63.89%) Architect
2 22 (61.11%) Junior
2 22 (61.11%) Junior Architect
2 22 (61.11%) Junior Solutions Architect
2 22 (61.11%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Consultant
3 5 (13.89%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Presales Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Firewall Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Junior Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Security Technical Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Presales
2 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (5.56%) Migration
2 2 (5.56%) SIEM
3 1 (2.78%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (2.78%) Business Strategy
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.78%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL
3 1 (2.78%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (2.78%) Mentoring
3 1 (2.78%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (2.78%) Network Management
3 1 (2.78%) Roadmaps
3 1 (2.78%) Security Architecture
3 1 (2.78%) SOAR
3 1 (2.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (2.78%) Task Automation
3 1 (2.78%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (66.67%) CCNA
2 24 (66.67%) JNCIA
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) CCNP
4 2 (5.56%) CCSA
5 1 (2.78%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.78%) RHEV
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (2.78%) SCCM
1 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 35 (97.22%) Cisco
2 27 (75.00%) Fortinet
2 27 (75.00%) Juniper
3 25 (69.44%) Aruba
4 8 (22.22%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.78%) Apple
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.78%) Netskope
5 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.78%) Veeam
5 1 (2.78%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Zscaler