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 31 October 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
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 324 326
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +168
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 105 145 177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 0.73% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 1.28% 2.00% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 51 96 141
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,938 £43,992
25th Percentile £52,250 £48,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £89,375 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.70%

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 8,216 7,266 9,121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 50.11% 36.39% 40.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,669 4,333 7,462
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.51%

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 31 October 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.43%) Azure
2 13 (12.38%) AWS
3 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.86%) SaaS
7 2 (1.90%) GCP
7 2 (1.90%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.90%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.90%) Tessian
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.95%) IaaS
8 1 (0.95%) OCI
8 1 (0.95%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.95%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 61 (58.10%) Firewall
2 57 (54.29%) WAN
3 50 (47.62%) LAN
4 48 (45.71%) SD-WAN
5 33 (31.43%) Wireless
6 32 (30.48%) Wireshark
7 20 (19.05%) VPN
8 17 (16.19%) BGP
9 16 (15.24%) OSPF
10 15 (14.29%) Network Security
11 10 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (8.57%) EIGRP
13 7 (6.67%) WLAN
14 6 (5.71%) VLAN
15 5 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
15 5 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 5 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 5 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (0.95%) GitLab
1 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.57%) Finance
3 29 (27.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (22.86%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.81%) Local Government
7 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Back Office
8 2 (1.90%) French Language
8 2 (1.90%) Games
8 2 (1.90%) Law
9 1 (0.95%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (38.10%) Network Engineer
2 20 (19.05%) Architect
3 17 (16.19%) Senior
4 12 (11.43%) Administrator
5 10 (9.52%) Lead
6 9 (8.57%) Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Network Administrator
7 8 (7.62%) Network Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Network Support
7 8 (7.62%) Network Support Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Support Analyst
8 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) DBA
9 4 (3.81%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) SQL DBA
10 3 (2.86%) Network Manager
10 3 (2.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 56 (53.33%) Data Centre
2 24 (22.86%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.81%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.81%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.86%) Fibre Optics
6 3 (2.86%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.95%) Clustering
8 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.67%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.95%) CentOS
4 1 (0.95%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) Load Balancing
1 33 (31.43%) Network Virtualisation
2 28 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
3 27 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (25.71%) Network Monitoring
4 26 (24.76%) AI
5 25 (23.81%) Asset Management
5 25 (23.81%) Change Management
6 24 (22.86%) Coaching
6 24 (22.86%) Customer Service
6 24 (22.86%) Network Planning
6 24 (22.86%) Problem Management
7 22 (20.95%) Time Management
8 18 (17.14%) Customer Engagement
8 18 (17.14%) Software Licensing
9 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (11.43%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (8.57%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.14%) Python
2 8 (7.62%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.81%) SQL
3 4 (3.81%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.90%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) Degree
2 13 (12.38%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (8.57%) CCNP
4 8 (7.62%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.67%) CCIE
6 3 (2.86%) CCNA
6 3 (2.86%) CISSP
6 3 (2.86%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.86%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.95%) CCDE
8 1 (0.95%) CCSA
8 1 (0.95%) CCSE
8 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.95%) MBA
8 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) NIST
2 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.95%) GRC
3 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.86%) Firmware
4 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.95%) Docker
5 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (18.10%) Ansible
2 18 (17.14%) Terraform
3 7 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.86%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (2.86%) SmoothWall
6 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.95%) Plesk
7 1 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (65.71%) Cisco
2 38 (36.19%) Microsoft
3 34 (32.38%) SolarWinds
4 29 (27.62%) Meraki
5 26 (24.76%) CheckPoint
6 24 (22.86%) Fortinet
7 18 (17.14%) Adobe
7 18 (17.14%) Apple
7 18 (17.14%) Aruba
8 12 (11.43%) VMware
9 10 (9.52%) F5
10 8 (7.62%) Mellanox
10 8 (7.62%) NVIDIA
11 6 (5.71%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (5.71%) EMC
11 6 (5.71%) Juniper
11 6 (5.71%) Zscaler
12 5 (4.76%) Arista
12 5 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
13 4 (3.81%) Dell