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 12 September 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
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 326 331
Rank change year-on-year +25 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 160 99 161
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 0.61% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 2.11% 1.25% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 81 61 113
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £77,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -4.00%

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 7,570 7,937 9,041
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.66% 48.90% 38.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,364 3,898 5,213
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,104 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -4.35%

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 12 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (35.63%) Azure
2 31 (19.38%) AWS
3 25 (15.63%) Serverless
4 18 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.88%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.63%) GCP
7 8 (5.00%) Mimecast
8 7 (4.38%) OneDrive
8 7 (4.38%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.13%) GitHub
9 5 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.13%) OCI
10 2 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.63%) Apigee
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.63%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.63%) Kong
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 103 (64.38%) Firewall
2 68 (42.50%) WAN
3 49 (30.63%) VPN
4 46 (28.75%) Network Security
5 45 (28.13%) SD-WAN
6 44 (27.50%) LAN
6 44 (27.50%) VLAN
7 40 (25.00%) BGP
8 37 (23.13%) DNS
9 30 (18.75%) OSPF
10 25 (15.63%) Cisco ISE
10 25 (15.63%) Cisco Nexus
11 23 (14.38%) DHCP
12 22 (13.75%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (12.50%) MPLS
13 20 (12.50%) Wireless
14 16 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (8.75%) VXLAN
16 11 (6.88%) TCP/IP
17 10 (6.25%) FTP
Development Applications
1 25 (15.63%) Snyk
2 5 (3.13%) Git
2 5 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.63%) GitLab
3 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (8.75%) Telecoms
4 13 (8.13%) Banking
5 12 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.25%) Finance
6 10 (6.25%) Marketing
6 10 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.25%) Retail
7 4 (2.50%) Law
7 4 (2.50%) Legal
7 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.63%) French Language
8 1 (0.63%) German Language
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (38.75%) Senior
2 46 (28.75%) Architect
3 44 (27.50%) Network Engineer
4 35 (21.88%) Security Architect
5 28 (17.50%) Senior Architect
6 25 (15.63%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (15.63%) Cloud Security Architect
6 25 (15.63%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 25 (15.63%) Senior Security Architect
7 19 (11.88%) Network Architect
8 16 (10.00%) Analyst
8 16 (10.00%) Network Analyst
9 14 (8.75%) Senior Analyst
9 14 (8.75%) Senior Network Analyst
10 11 (6.88%) Security Engineer
10 11 (6.88%) Senior Network Engineer
11 10 (6.25%) Network Security Architect
11 10 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (5.00%) Consultant
12 8 (5.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.13%) Terraform
2 10 (6.25%) OAuth
2 10 (6.25%) SAML
3 7 (4.38%) 802.1X
3 7 (4.38%) XMPP
4 1 (0.63%) Jinja
4 1 (0.63%) JSON
4 1 (0.63%) REST
4 1 (0.63%) XML
4 1 (0.63%) YAML
4 1 (0.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.75%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.38%) Security Posture
3 14 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (6.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 7 (4.38%) FlexPod
6 7 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.38%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (3.13%) CMDB
7 5 (3.13%) Private Cloud
7 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.50%) Replication
9 3 (1.88%) PKI
10 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.50%) Windows
2 18 (11.25%) Windows Server
3 10 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (52.50%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (25.63%) Cloud Security
3 36 (22.50%) CI/CD
4 30 (18.75%) AI
5 29 (18.13%) Vulnerability Management
6 28 (17.50%) Threat Modelling
7 27 (16.88%) Security Architecture
8 25 (15.63%) Application Security
8 25 (15.63%) DevSecOps
8 25 (15.63%) SDLC
8 25 (15.63%) Security Testing
9 24 (15.00%) IT Strategy
9 24 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
9 24 (15.00%) Validation
9 24 (15.00%) Zero Trust
10 23 (14.38%) Mentoring
11 22 (13.75%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (13.13%) Incident Response
12 21 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.75%) Python
2 6 (3.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.25%) Bash
4 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (16.88%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (15.00%) CCNP
3 13 (8.13%) CCNA
4 10 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.25%) CCIE
5 9 (5.63%) Degree
6 5 (3.13%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.50%) JNCIE
8 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.88%) CCDP
8 3 (1.88%) CCIE Security
8 3 (1.88%) CCSA
8 3 (1.88%) CCSE
8 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.88%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.25%) CISSP
9 2 (1.25%) MBA
9 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.25%) PMP
9 2 (1.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.50%) GRC
2 24 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (15.00%) NIST
3 10 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 10 (6.25%) SLA
4 6 (3.75%) GDPR
5 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.88%) PMO
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (16.88%) Virtual Machines
2 23 (14.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (11.25%) Active Directory
4 15 (9.38%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.75%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (20.63%) FortiGate
2 21 (13.13%) Ansible
3 13 (8.13%) CASB
4 11 (6.88%) Kubernetes
5 8 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (4.38%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (4.38%) Grafana
7 5 (3.13%) Packer
8 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.25%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.63%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 98 (61.25%) Cisco
2 60 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 44 (27.50%) Fortinet
4 33 (20.63%) CrowdStrike
4 33 (20.63%) VMware
5 27 (16.88%) Tenable
6 20 (12.50%) Aruba
7 18 (11.25%) Juniper
8 16 (10.00%) F5
9 15 (9.38%) Qualys
10 12 (7.50%) Veeam
11 11 (6.88%) CheckPoint
12 10 (6.25%) Arista
12 10 (6.25%) SonicWALL
13 9 (5.63%) Meraki
13 9 (5.63%) Splunk
13 9 (5.63%) WatchGuard
13 9 (5.63%) Zscaler
14 7 (4.38%) N-able
15 5 (3.13%) ServiceNow