Palo Alto Job Trends in Staffordshire

Palo Alto
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 6 May 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
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £60,250 - -
25th Percentile £60,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £65,625 - -
90th Percentile £66,750 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £51,300
% change year-on-year -11.11% +31.58% +14.00%

All Vendors
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 202 231 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 14.99% 40.31% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 106 155 304
10th Percentile £27,750 - £25,772
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £28,119
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,938 £53,688 £54,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £59,750 £60,875
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,344 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.07% +10.20% -9.52%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Palo Alto.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 £62,500 - 2
Palo Alto
West Midlands

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) NGFW
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet