Palo Alto Jobs 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 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 211 221
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 -25
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 6 46 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.14% 0.62% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 1.67% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 44 28
10th Percentile £57,250 £41,250 £31,025
25th Percentile £60,625 £45,650 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £51,300 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +14.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,625 £58,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £79,750 £63,750 £80,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,001 £59,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.78% +5.69%

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 1,519 2,758 2,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.59% 37.39% 45.77%
Number of salaries quoted 928 2,183 1,570
10th Percentile £28,822 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £47,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -8.21% +10.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,375 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +3.64%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Palo Alto in the West Midlands

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

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 11 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
Birmingham +29 3 £67,500 +14.89% 2
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Solihull +8 1 - -
Palo Alto
England

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (33.33%) IPsec
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (16.67%) TACACS
4 1 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Control
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CCNP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CCSA
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) Aruba
3 2 (33.33%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft