Palo Alto Job Trends in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 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
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 180 147
Rank change year-on-year +25 -33 +87
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 18 18 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.43% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 1.07% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 35
10th Percentile - £49,000 £45,650
25th Percentile - £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -17.34% +18.10%
75th Percentile £63,750 £54,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,875 £61,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,274 1,687 1,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.12% 39.86% 44.13%
Number of salaries quoted 780 824 1,324
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,063
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,850 £76,250
England median annual salary £51,625 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.22% +4.55% -4.35%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Palo Alto relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Palo Alto job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Palo Alto.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Birmingham +26 18 £50,000 -2.91% 6
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
1 6 (33.33%) Network Security
2 4 (22.22%) VPN
2 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (16.67%) BGP
3 3 (16.67%) DHCP
3 3 (16.67%) DNS
3 3 (16.67%) IPsec
3 3 (16.67%) OSPF
3 3 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 3 (16.67%) VLAN
3 3 (16.67%) WAN
3 3 (16.67%) Wireshark
4 2 (11.11%) NAS
4 2 (11.11%) SAN
5 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (5.56%) Wireless
General
1 9 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (55.56%) Time Management
3 9 (50.00%) AI
3 9 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
3 9 (50.00%) Software Licensing
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Change Control
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Value Proposition
7 1 (5.56%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (5.56%) Security Operations
7 1 (5.56%) Threat Detection
7 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 4 (22.22%) CCNP
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Firmware
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) Adobe
2 9 (50.00%) Apple
3 6 (33.33%) Zscaler
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco
4 4 (22.22%) Meraki
5 3 (16.67%) Dell
5 3 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 3 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (11.11%) Tanium
6 2 (11.11%) Tenable