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 2 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
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 467 521
Rank change year-on-year +39 +54 +104
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 255 449 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.48% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 1.35% 1.30% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 213 371 433
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £88,750 £66,546 £72,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £90,000 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.21% +2.60% -

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 18,852 34,499 45,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.30% 37.23% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,196 24,950 26,236
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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 £72,500 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,822 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +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 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in the UK

Palo Alto
Top 16 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 2 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 +32 243 £65,000 +13.04% 232
UK excluding London +58 128 £55,000 +7.21% 106
London +37 115 £82,500 +26.92% 145
Work from Home +31 57 £61,250 +7.93% 114
North of England +60 47 £55,000 -7.95% 34
North West +35 38 £55,000 -15.38% 25
South East +47 31 £57,500 +9.52% 38
Midlands +25 18 £65,000 +26.71% 4
South West +106 13 £57,500 +76.92% 8
East of England +57 12 £42,500 -17.07% 8
East Midlands +55 10 £65,000 +16.38% 2
Yorkshire +50 8 £60,000 +26.32% 6
West Midlands -11 8 £55,000 +7.21% 2
Wales +30 5 £54,500 -16.15% 2
Scotland +107 2 £65,000 +100.00% 7
North East +32 1 £37,500 -11.76% 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 17 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.57%) Confluence
4 3 (1.18%) IBM Domino
4 3 (1.18%) IIS
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.39%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 119 (46.67%) Azure
2 37 (14.51%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (10.59%) AWS
4 19 (7.45%) Entra ID
5 15 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (4.71%) Azure AKS
6 12 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (4.71%) Mimecast
7 10 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (3.53%) GCP
8 9 (3.53%) OneDrive
9 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.14%) IaaS
10 7 (2.75%) PaaS
11 4 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.57%) SaaS
12 3 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.18%) Cloudflare
13 2 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 197 (77.25%) Firewall
2 109 (42.75%) WAN
3 89 (34.90%) LAN
4 64 (25.10%) SD-WAN
5 62 (24.31%) VPN
6 56 (21.96%) BGP
7 53 (20.78%) Network Security
8 48 (18.82%) OSPF
9 38 (14.90%) Cisco Firepower
10 31 (12.16%) Wireless
11 29 (11.37%) MPLS
11 29 (11.37%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (10.98%) Cisco ISE
12 28 (10.98%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (8.63%) Cisco ASA
14 21 (8.24%) VLAN
15 18 (7.06%) IPsec
15 18 (7.06%) WLAN
16 15 (5.88%) TCP/IP
17 14 (5.49%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.96%) Big Data
3 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.39%) Power BI
5 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.57%) JIRA
3 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 83 (32.55%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.25%) Finance
3 38 (14.90%) Presentation Skills
4 14 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.49%) Banking
5 11 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.53%) Retail
8 7 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.35%) Marketing
10 5 (1.96%) Law
10 5 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.57%) Aviation
11 4 (1.57%) Legal
12 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Local Government
13 2 (0.78%) Games
13 2 (0.78%) iGaming
13 2 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (36.86%) Network Engineer
2 37 (14.51%) Architect
3 33 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (10.59%) Cisco Engineer
4 27 (10.59%) Consultant
4 27 (10.59%) Senior
5 26 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (9.41%) Junior
7 23 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (9.02%) Security Engineer
7 23 (9.02%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (8.63%) Junior Architect
8 22 (8.63%) Junior Solutions Architect
9 17 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 17 (6.67%) Network Consultant
10 16 (6.27%) Senior Network Engineer
11 14 (5.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.71%) Security Consultant
13 11 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.31%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.18%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.39%) cloud-init
3 1 (0.39%) JSON
3 1 (0.39%) RESTful
3 1 (0.39%) SAML
3 1 (0.39%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (0.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.43%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (2.35%) Reinsurance
5 4 (1.57%) Wiki
6 3 (1.18%) Clustering
6 3 (1.18%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.18%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.18%) PKI
6 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.78%) Mobile Games
7 2 (0.78%) Online Games
7 2 (0.78%) Replication
7 2 (0.78%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 63 (24.71%) Windows
2 44 (17.25%) Windows Server
3 37 (14.51%) Linux
4 11 (4.31%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.75%) CentOS
5 7 (2.75%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.35%) Android
7 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.39%) Unix
10 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.39%) Presales
2 41 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (15.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 28 (10.98%) ITIL
5 24 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (9.02%) Fintech
7 22 (8.63%) Mentoring
8 21 (8.24%) Network Monitoring
9 20 (7.84%) Business Continuity
9 20 (7.84%) Network Management
9 20 (7.84%) Roadmaps
10 19 (7.45%) Migration
11 18 (7.06%) CI/CD
11 18 (7.06%) Zero Trust
12 17 (6.67%) SIEM
13 16 (6.27%) Change Management
13 16 (6.27%) Service Delivery
14 15 (5.88%) DevOps
14 15 (5.88%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.94%) PowerShell
2 28 (10.98%) Python
3 13 (5.10%) SQL
4 9 (3.53%) Bash
5 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 122 (47.84%) Cisco Certification
2 91 (35.69%) CCNP
3 61 (23.92%) CCNA
4 34 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 31 (12.16%) CCIE
6 26 (10.20%) JNCIA
7 25 (9.80%) Degree
8 15 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (5.10%) CCSA
9 13 (5.10%) CISSP
10 12 (4.71%) SC Cleared
11 10 (3.92%) CCSE
12 9 (3.53%) DV Cleared
12 9 (3.53%) Network+ Certification
12 9 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (3.14%) CISM
13 8 (3.14%) MCSA
13 8 (3.14%) MCSE
14 7 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.96%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 10 (3.92%) NIST
5 9 (3.53%) GDPR
6 6 (2.35%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.96%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.57%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.57%) NCSC
9 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.39%) Basel III
9 1 (0.39%) COBIT
9 1 (0.39%) MiFID
9 1 (0.39%) PSD2
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (14.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (12.94%) Active Directory
3 23 (9.02%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.49%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.35%) Firmware
6 6 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.35%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.18%) Docker
8 1 (0.39%) RHEV
8 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 30 (11.76%) Terraform
2 28 (10.98%) Ansible
3 18 (7.06%) Kubernetes
4 17 (6.67%) SCCM
5 6 (2.35%) Nagios
6 5 (1.96%) ZABBIX
7 4 (1.57%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.57%) Graylog
7 4 (1.57%) Opsgenie
8 3 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.18%) Nessus
9 2 (0.78%) QRadar
9 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.39%) Demisto
10 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.39%) NetCrunch
10 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 199 (78.04%) Cisco
2 101 (39.61%) Fortinet
3 74 (29.02%) Microsoft
4 71 (27.84%) CheckPoint
5 48 (18.82%) Juniper
6 44 (17.25%) Aruba
7 41 (16.08%) VMware
8 31 (12.16%) Meraki
9 30 (11.76%) F5
10 27 (10.59%) SolarWinds
11 22 (8.63%) Arista
12 16 (6.27%) HP
13 13 (5.10%) Citrix
14 8 (3.14%) Red Hat
15 7 (2.75%) Bloomberg
16 6 (2.35%) LogicMonitor
16 6 (2.35%) Splunk
17 5 (1.96%) Dell
17 5 (1.96%) WatchGuard
18 4 (1.57%) IBM