Palo Alto Jobs

Palo Alto
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 480 495
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 +101
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 235 477 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.23% 1.31% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 197 366 433
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £107,250 £82,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -2.64%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,051 36,436 43,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.92% 37.12% 41.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,693 25,193 24,952
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the UK

Palo Alto
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Palo Alto in the UK

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in the UK

Palo Alto
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +26 224 £63,750 +13.84% 279
UK excluding London +58 119 £55,000 +10.00% 137
London +68 103 £80,000 +23.08% 164
Work from Home -3 53 £61,250 +9.38% 140
North of England +37 43 £55,000 +4.76% 43
North West +20 35 £55,000 -10.11% 24
South East +49 29 £52,500 - 41
Midlands +33 16 £65,000 +26.21% 13
South West +121 14 £55,000 +69.23% 13
East of England +65 12 £36,000 -24.21% 8
East Midlands +60 10 £65,000 +16.38% 2
Yorkshire +50 7 £60,000 +29.73% 17
West Midlands +26 6 £67,500 +31.58% 11
Wales +29 3 £54,500 -
Scotland +112 1 - - 17
North East +43 1 £37,500 -11.76% 3
Northern Ireland +34 1 - - 3

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (7.66%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.98%) IBM Domino
4 4 (1.70%) Confluence
5 3 (1.28%) Apache
5 3 (1.28%) IIS
6 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (6.81%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.98%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.43%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 115 (48.94%) Azure
2 38 (16.17%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (11.06%) AWS
4 22 (9.36%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (5.53%) Mimecast
7 11 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (4.68%) GCP
7 11 (4.68%) OneDrive
8 10 (4.26%) Azure AKS
9 8 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 6 (2.55%) IaaS
10 6 (2.55%) PaaS
11 4 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.28%) Cloudflare
12 3 (1.28%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.28%) SaaS
13 2 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 172 (73.19%) Firewall
2 108 (45.96%) WAN
3 88 (37.45%) LAN
4 61 (25.96%) SD-WAN
5 59 (25.11%) VPN
6 52 (22.13%) BGP
7 45 (19.15%) OSPF
8 44 (18.72%) Network Security
9 33 (14.04%) Cisco Firepower
10 30 (12.77%) Wireless
11 27 (11.49%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (10.21%) Cisco Nexus
13 23 (9.79%) MPLS
14 22 (9.36%) Cisco ISE
15 17 (7.23%) IPsec
16 16 (6.81%) Cisco IOS
16 16 (6.81%) VLAN
17 15 (6.38%) WLAN
18 14 (5.96%) Cisco ASA
19 12 (5.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.28%) Big Data
4 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) Power BI
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.70%) JIRA
3 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 74 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.45%) Finance
3 34 (14.47%) Presentation Skills
4 14 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.11%) Banking
6 10 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.40%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.98%) Retail
9 4 (1.70%) Legal
9 4 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.70%) Marketing
10 3 (1.28%) Aviation
10 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Local Government
10 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Games
11 2 (0.85%) iGaming
11 2 (0.85%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 77 (32.77%) Network Engineer
2 35 (14.89%) Architect
3 28 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (11.49%) Consultant
5 26 (11.06%) Cisco Engineer
5 26 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (10.21%) Junior
7 23 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (9.79%) Senior
8 22 (9.36%) Junior Architect
8 22 (9.36%) Junior Solutions Architect
8 22 (9.36%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (7.66%) Security Engineer
10 17 (7.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 17 (7.23%) Network Consultant
11 14 (5.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.96%) Security Consultant
11 14 (5.96%) Support Engineer
12 13 (5.53%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (5.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.26%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.13%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.85%) JSON
4 1 (0.43%) cloud-init
4 1 (0.43%) RESTful
4 1 (0.43%) SAML
4 1 (0.43%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.45%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (2.55%) Reinsurance
3 5 (2.13%) Clustering
3 5 (2.13%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.13%) PKI
3 5 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.70%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.70%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.70%) Wiki
5 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.85%) Mobile Games
6 2 (0.85%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 58 (24.68%) Windows
2 42 (17.87%) Windows Server
3 30 (12.77%) Linux
4 12 (5.11%) Android
5 11 (4.68%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.40%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.98%) CentOS
7 7 (2.98%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.13%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.43%) Unix
12 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.13%) Presales
2 36 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (10.21%) ITIL
5 24 (10.21%) Migration
6 21 (8.94%) Mentoring
7 20 (8.51%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (8.51%) Roadmaps
8 18 (7.66%) CI/CD
8 18 (7.66%) Network Virtualisation
8 18 (7.66%) SIEM
9 17 (7.23%) Network Monitoring
10 16 (6.81%) DevOps
11 15 (6.38%) Business Continuity
11 15 (6.38%) Fintech
11 15 (6.38%) Network Management
11 15 (6.38%) Service Delivery
11 15 (6.38%) Zero Trust
12 14 (5.96%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (13.62%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.19%) Python
3 11 (4.68%) SQL
4 10 (4.26%) Bash
5 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (45.11%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (32.34%) CCNP
3 51 (21.70%) CCNA
4 27 (11.49%) CCIE
5 24 (10.21%) JNCIA
6 23 (9.79%) Degree
6 23 (9.79%) Security Cleared
7 15 (6.38%) CISSP
7 15 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (5.53%) CCSA
9 11 (4.68%) CISM
9 11 (4.68%) SC Cleared
10 9 (3.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (3.40%) CCSE
11 8 (3.40%) MCSA
11 8 (3.40%) MCSE
11 8 (3.40%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (2.55%) DV Cleared
13 5 (2.13%) CEH
14 4 (1.70%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.68%) NIST
3 10 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (4.26%) GDPR
4 9 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (2.55%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.55%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.43%) Basel III
8 1 (0.43%) COBIT
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.43%) MiFID
8 1 (0.43%) PSD2
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.32%) Active Directory
2 33 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (11.06%) Hyper-V
4 11 (4.68%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.55%) Firmware
5 6 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.55%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.28%) Docker
8 1 (0.43%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 35 (14.89%) Terraform
2 31 (13.19%) Ansible
3 29 (12.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (7.66%) Kubernetes
5 17 (7.23%) SCCM
6 6 (2.55%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.70%) Graylog
8 4 (1.70%) Nagios
8 4 (1.70%) Opsgenie
9 3 (1.28%) QRadar
10 2 (0.85%) Nessus
11 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.43%) CASB
11 1 (0.43%) Demisto
11 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.43%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 180 (76.60%) Cisco
2 88 (37.45%) Fortinet
3 73 (31.06%) Microsoft
4 53 (22.55%) CheckPoint
5 45 (19.15%) Aruba
5 45 (19.15%) Juniper
6 36 (15.32%) VMware
7 29 (12.34%) Meraki
8 26 (11.06%) F5
9 24 (10.21%) SolarWinds
10 16 (6.81%) Arista
11 13 (5.53%) Citrix
11 13 (5.53%) HP
12 8 (3.40%) Red Hat
13 7 (2.98%) Bloomberg
14 6 (2.55%) LogicMonitor
14 6 (2.55%) Splunk
15 5 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
15 5 (2.13%) Google
15 5 (2.13%) WatchGuard