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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 132 169
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 +59
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 18 49 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.45% 1.45% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 4.28% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 30
10th Percentile £45,500 £56,050 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.93% +7.27%
75th Percentile £56,533 £79,875 £73,438
90th Percentile - £100,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £53,533 £57,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -2.54% +7.27%

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 1,400 1,145 1,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.72% 33.84% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 594 539 1,213
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,400
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Buckinghamshire -12 7 £48,000 -16.52% 7
Berkshire -16 6 £52,783 -5.75% 15
Oxfordshire +17 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 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Google Workspace
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) Firewall
2 12 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 11 (61.11%) DHCP
3 11 (61.11%) DNS
4 7 (38.89%) Wireless
5 6 (33.33%) NAS
5 6 (33.33%) SAN
5 6 (33.33%) VLAN
6 3 (16.67%) LAN
7 1 (5.56%) BGP
7 1 (5.56%) BIG-IP
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (5.56%) ICMP
7 1 (5.56%) IPsec
7 1 (5.56%) Network Security
7 1 (5.56%) NGFW
7 1 (5.56%) OSPF
General
1 1 (5.56%) Finance
1 1 (5.56%) Legal
1 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Support Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Technical Support
3 5 (27.78%) Technical Support Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Network Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Android
1 5 (27.78%) Apple iOS
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
1 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 6 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (33.33%) High Availability
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 6 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 6 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 6 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 3 (16.67%) Network Design
5 3 (16.67%) Physics
5 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (16.67%) CCSP
2 3 (16.67%) CEH
2 3 (16.67%) CISA
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CISM
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) MCSE
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (16.67%) GRC
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 6 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (33.33%) vSphere
3 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) VMware
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (44.44%) Google
4 6 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (27.78%) CheckPoint
6 3 (16.67%) Arista
6 3 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (16.67%) Tenable
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco
7 1 (5.56%) F5