Hybrid/Remote Palo Alto Job Trends

Palo Alto
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 366 402
Rank change year-on-year +85 +36 +34
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 140 61 195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 0.40% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 2.27% 0.82% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 75 56 153
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,837 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +16.67% +6.67% -6.25%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,163 7,414 13,489
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.87% 48.30% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,200 3,874 9,831
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,882 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Palo Alto and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Palo Alto job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Palo Alto
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Palo Alto.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Palo Alto

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Palo Alto over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Palo Alto salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Palo Alto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 46 (32.86%) Azure
2 33 (23.57%) AWS
3 25 (17.86%) Serverless
4 14 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.86%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.29%) Apigee
6 6 (4.29%) GitHub
6 6 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.29%) Kong
7 5 (3.57%) GCP
7 5 (3.57%) OCI
8 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.14%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.71%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 83 (59.29%) Firewall
2 54 (38.57%) WAN
3 41 (29.29%) LAN
4 37 (26.43%) Network Security
5 34 (24.29%) BGP
6 33 (23.57%) SD-WAN
7 31 (22.14%) VLAN
8 28 (20.00%) VPN
9 27 (19.29%) OSPF
10 25 (17.86%) Cisco ISE
11 23 (16.43%) DNS
12 22 (15.71%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (15.00%) Wireless
14 19 (13.57%) Cisco Nexus
15 18 (12.86%) MPLS
16 15 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (9.29%) Cisco Firepower
18 12 (8.57%) VXLAN
19 11 (7.86%) NGFW
20 10 (7.14%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Snyk
2 6 (4.29%) Git
2 6 (4.29%) GitLab
2 6 (4.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (13.57%) Telecoms
4 15 (10.71%) Banking
5 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.57%) Finance
7 11 (7.86%) Retail
8 10 (7.14%) Marketing
8 10 (7.14%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.86%) Legal
11 3 (2.14%) Law
12 2 (1.43%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.71%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.71%) French Language
13 1 (0.71%) German Language
13 1 (0.71%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (44.29%) Senior
2 45 (32.14%) Network Engineer
3 44 (31.43%) Architect
4 32 (22.86%) Security Architect
5 29 (20.71%) Senior Architect
6 25 (17.86%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (17.86%) Cloud Security Architect
6 25 (17.86%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 25 (17.86%) Senior Security Architect
7 16 (11.43%) Network Architect
7 16 (11.43%) Senior Network Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) Network Specialist
8 11 (7.86%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.43%) Analyst
9 9 (6.43%) Network Analyst
9 9 (6.43%) Security Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (5.71%) Senior Network Analyst
11 7 (5.00%) Security Analyst
11 7 (5.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.43%) XMPP
2 7 (5.00%) OAuth
2 7 (5.00%) SAML
3 6 (4.29%) Jinja
3 6 (4.29%) JSON
3 6 (4.29%) REST
3 6 (4.29%) XML
3 6 (4.29%) YAML
3 6 (4.29%) YANG
4 4 (2.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.14%) Data Centre
2 15 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.43%) FlexPod
4 9 (6.43%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.43%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.29%) CMDB
6 6 (4.29%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.29%) Replication
6 6 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.57%) Linux
2 17 (12.14%) Windows
3 12 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (44.29%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 34 (24.29%) Cloud Security
4 28 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 27 (19.29%) AI
6 25 (17.86%) Application Security
6 25 (17.86%) DevSecOps
6 25 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (17.86%) SDLC
6 25 (17.86%) Security Testing
6 25 (17.86%) Threat Modelling
7 22 (15.71%) IT Strategy
7 22 (15.71%) Technology Strategy
7 22 (15.71%) Validation
8 19 (13.57%) Mentoring
9 15 (10.71%) DevOps
9 15 (10.71%) Presales
10 14 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 14 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 14 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.29%) Python
2 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
2 6 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (15.71%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (13.57%) CCNP
3 13 (9.29%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.14%) CCIE
5 8 (5.71%) CCNA
6 6 (4.29%) Degree
7 4 (2.86%) CCSE
7 4 (2.86%) JNCIE
7 4 (2.86%) JNCIP
8 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.14%) CCIE Security
8 3 (2.14%) CCSA
9 2 (1.43%) CEH
9 2 (1.43%) CISSP
9 2 (1.43%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.71%) CCSM
10 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.86%) GRC
2 13 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (9.29%) NIST
3 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.14%) GDPR
3 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.43%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (4.29%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (4.29%) vSphere
5 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (20.71%) FortiGate
2 21 (15.00%) Ansible
3 16 (11.43%) Terraform
4 11 (7.86%) Kubernetes
5 9 (6.43%) Cisco CUCM
5 9 (6.43%) Grafana
6 7 (5.00%) CASB
7 6 (4.29%) Packer
8 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.14%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.71%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 87 (62.14%) Cisco
2 42 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 32 (22.86%) Fortinet
4 30 (21.43%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (17.86%) Tenable
6 24 (17.14%) VMware
7 22 (15.71%) F5
8 15 (10.71%) Juniper
9 13 (9.29%) Aruba
9 13 (9.29%) Meraki
10 10 (7.14%) CheckPoint
11 9 (6.43%) Splunk
12 8 (5.71%) Arista
12 8 (5.71%) Qualys
13 6 (4.29%) EMC
13 6 (4.29%) NetApp
13 6 (4.29%) Red Hat
13 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
14 5 (3.57%) Zscaler
15 4 (2.86%) HP