Palo Alto Jobs 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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 209 230
Rank change year-on-year +41 +21 +13
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 12 37 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% 0.53% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 0.94% 1.42% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 27 26
10th Percentile £49,598 £48,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £57,198 £50,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.07% +7.27% -24.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 - £64,375
90th Percentile £95,000 - £78,750
South East median annual salary £53,065 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.08% +5.00% -20.00%

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 1,279 2,601 2,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.21% 37.55% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 581 1,773 1,461
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,293 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.01% -7.41% -1.66%
75th Percentile £66,250 £59,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Palo Alto in the Thames Valley

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 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
Buckinghamshire +38 6 - - 22
Berkshire +13 6 £85,000 +44.07% 62
Palo Alto
South East

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (50.00%) IBM Domino
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) LAN
1 10 (83.33%) WAN
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
General
1 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Support Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Android
1 6 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (50.00%) User Experience
2 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 4 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Network Design
4 2 (16.67%) Non-Blocking Code
4 2 (16.67%) Physics
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Aruba
3 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 4 (33.33%) Mellanox
3 4 (33.33%) NVIDIA
4 2 (16.67%) Arista
4 2 (16.67%) Extreme Networks