Palo Alto Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Palo Alto
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 9 December 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
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 139 147
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 +77
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 14 55 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.37% 1.39% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 0.96% 4.12% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10 26 30
10th Percentile £45,150 £56,000 £42,338
25th Percentile £48,000 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £56,533 £66,375 £73,438
90th Percentile £60,879 £100,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% -4.17% +10.09%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,458 1,335 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.17% 33.76% 44.36%
Number of salaries quoted 609 634 1,121
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.53% -2.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,438 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Palo Alto.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

Palo Alto
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Buckinghamshire -12 6 £47,000 -18.26% 8
Berkshire -8 5 £53,065 -5.24% 7
Oxfordshire +25 3 £100,000 - 5
Palo Alto
South East

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (14.29%) Google Workspace
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) Firewall
2 8 (57.14%) DHCP
2 8 (57.14%) DNS
2 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 6 (42.86%) NAS
3 6 (42.86%) SAN
3 6 (42.86%) VLAN
3 6 (42.86%) Wireless
4 4 (28.57%) LAN
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security
5 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (7.14%) WAN
5 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Legal
1 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Network Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
1 3 (21.43%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Android
2 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (50.00%) High Availability
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 6 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 6 (42.86%) Proactive Monitoring
3 6 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
3 6 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) Network Design
5 3 (21.43%) Non-Blocking Code
5 3 (21.43%) Physics
6 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (21.43%) CISSP
3 2 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (14.29%) CCSP
3 2 (14.29%) CEH
3 2 (14.29%) CISA
3 2 (14.29%) CISM
4 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CCIE
4 1 (7.14%) CCNP
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) MCSE
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (14.29%) GRC
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 6 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (42.86%) vSphere
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (42.86%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (28.57%) Google
5 3 (21.43%) Arista
5 3 (21.43%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 2 (14.29%) Tenable
7 1 (7.14%) Aruba
7 1 (7.14%) Cisco
7 1 (7.14%) HP
7 1 (7.14%) Juniper
7 1 (7.14%) Oracle