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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 489 470
Rank change year-on-year -5 -19 +122
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 230 466 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 1.12% 1.28% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 194 356 423
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,900 £36,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,593 £70,000
90th Percentile £104,250 £82,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,180
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.18% -0.61%

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 20,465 36,384 42,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.12% 36.66% 41.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,927 24,996 24,178
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
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 12 May 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 12 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
England -2 218 £65,000 +18.18% 282
UK excluding London +11 127 £55,000 +10.00% 170
London +64 91 £82,500 +26.92% 172
Work from Home -22 56 £62,500 +13.64% 174
North of England +28 46 £56,250 +7.14% 48
North West -5 36 £55,000 -10.11% 23
South East +34 30 £52,783 +0.54% 67
South West +113 17 £53,750 +65.38% 14
Midlands +33 16 £65,000 +26.21% 13
East of England +40 12 £36,000 -24.21% 4
Yorkshire +53 10 £80,000 +82.86% 22
East Midlands +45 10 £65,000 +16.38% 2
West Midlands +21 6 £67,500 +31.58% 11
Wales +28 3 £54,500 - 2
Scotland +91 2 - - 21
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 5

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 16 (6.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.04%) IBM Domino
3 4 (1.74%) Confluence
4 3 (1.30%) Apache
4 3 (1.30%) IIS
5 2 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 106 (46.09%) Azure
2 38 (16.52%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (10.87%) AWS
4 23 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (4.78%) GCP
6 11 (4.78%) OneDrive
7 10 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 10 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (4.35%) Mimecast
8 7 (3.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 6 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.61%) IaaS
9 6 (2.61%) PaaS
10 5 (2.17%) SaaS
11 4 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.30%) Cloudflare
12 3 (1.30%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.87%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 164 (71.30%) Firewall
2 108 (46.96%) WAN
3 83 (36.09%) LAN
4 56 (24.35%) VPN
5 54 (23.48%) SD-WAN
6 46 (20.00%) BGP
7 40 (17.39%) Network Security
7 40 (17.39%) OSPF
8 33 (14.35%) Cisco Firepower
9 27 (11.74%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (11.30%) Wireless
11 22 (9.57%) Cisco Nexus
12 20 (8.70%) MPLS
13 17 (7.39%) Cisco ISE
13 17 (7.39%) VLAN
14 16 (6.96%) IPsec
15 15 (6.52%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (5.65%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (5.65%) DNS
17 12 (5.22%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.30%) Big Data
2 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.74%) JIRA
3 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 70 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.65%) Finance
3 32 (13.91%) Presentation Skills
4 14 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.78%) Banking
8 6 (2.61%) Retail
8 6 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.17%) Local Government
10 4 (1.74%) Games
10 4 (1.74%) Legal
10 4 (1.74%) Marketing
11 3 (1.30%) Aviation
11 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.87%) iGaming
12 2 (0.87%) Publishing
13 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 71 (30.87%) Network Engineer
2 32 (13.91%) Architect
3 30 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (12.17%) Consultant
5 26 (11.30%) Senior
6 25 (10.87%) Cisco Engineer
7 23 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (10.00%) Junior
8 22 (9.57%) Junior Architect
8 22 (9.57%) Junior Solutions Architect
8 22 (9.57%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (7.83%) Security Engineer
10 17 (7.39%) Network Consultant
11 16 (6.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 15 (6.52%) Support Engineer
13 14 (6.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (6.09%) Lead
13 14 (6.09%) Security Consultant
14 13 (5.65%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.91%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.17%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.87%) 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 34 (14.78%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.17%) Clustering
3 5 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (2.17%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.17%) PKI
3 5 (2.17%) Reinsurance
3 5 (2.17%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.74%) Wiki
5 3 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.87%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.87%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.48%) Windows
2 40 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 28 (12.17%) Linux
4 12 (5.22%) Android
5 8 (3.48%) Mac OS
6 7 (3.04%) CentOS
6 7 (3.04%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.04%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.17%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.43%) Unix
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (23.48%) Presales
2 36 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (11.30%) ITIL
4 26 (11.30%) Roadmaps
5 25 (10.87%) Migration
6 24 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (9.57%) Mentoring
8 19 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (8.26%) Network Virtualisation
9 18 (7.83%) CI/CD
9 18 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (7.83%) SIEM
10 14 (6.09%) Business Continuity
10 14 (6.09%) DevOps
10 14 (6.09%) Fintech
10 14 (6.09%) High Availability
10 14 (6.09%) Network Management
10 14 (6.09%) Service Delivery
11 13 (5.65%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (13.91%) Python
2 31 (13.48%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.78%) SQL
4 8 (3.48%) Bash
5 3 (1.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 100 (43.48%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (30.87%) CCNP
3 51 (22.17%) CCNA
4 24 (10.43%) CCIE
4 24 (10.43%) JNCIA
5 20 (8.70%) Degree
5 20 (8.70%) Security Cleared
6 17 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (6.09%) CISSP
8 13 (5.65%) CCSA
9 11 (4.78%) CISM
9 11 (4.78%) SC Cleared
10 9 (3.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (3.48%) MCSA
11 8 (3.48%) MCSE
11 8 (3.48%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (3.04%) CCSE
13 5 (2.17%) CEH
14 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.78%) NIST
3 10 (4.35%) GDPR
4 9 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.61%) HIPAA
6 6 (2.61%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.30%) NCSC
7 3 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.87%) SLA
9 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.43%) Basel III
9 1 (0.43%) COBIT
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.43%) MiFID
9 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 34 (14.78%) Active Directory
2 33 (14.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (11.74%) Hyper-V
4 10 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (3.04%) Firmware
6 6 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (2.17%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.30%) Docker
9 1 (0.43%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 38 (16.52%) Terraform
2 33 (14.35%) Ansible
3 28 (12.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (7.83%) Kubernetes
5 17 (7.39%) SCCM
6 7 (3.04%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.74%) Graylog
8 4 (1.74%) Nagios
8 4 (1.74%) Opsgenie
9 3 (1.30%) CASB
9 3 (1.30%) QRadar
10 2 (0.87%) Nessus
10 2 (0.87%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.43%) Demisto
11 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.43%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 180 (78.26%) Cisco
2 93 (40.43%) Fortinet
3 69 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 51 (22.17%) Aruba
5 47 (20.43%) CheckPoint
6 46 (20.00%) Juniper
7 37 (16.09%) VMware
8 28 (12.17%) Meraki
9 25 (10.87%) F5
10 22 (9.57%) SolarWinds
11 15 (6.52%) Arista
12 13 (5.65%) HP
13 11 (4.78%) Citrix
14 8 (3.48%) Mellanox
14 8 (3.48%) NVIDIA
14 8 (3.48%) Red Hat
15 6 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (2.61%) Splunk
16 5 (2.17%) Bloomberg
16 5 (2.17%) Google