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 7 March 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
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 348 376
Rank change year-on-year +31 +28 +83
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 66 75 178
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 1.08% 1.28% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 32 53 158
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £91,875 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £97,000 £85,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%

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 6,112 5,881 11,936
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.47% 39.86% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,344 3,722 9,810
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,188 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -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 7 March 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 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 43 (65.15%) Azure
2 18 (27.27%) AWS
3 9 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.58%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.06%) Apigee
5 4 (6.06%) Kong
6 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.55%) Mimecast
6 3 (4.55%) Tessian
7 2 (3.03%) OCI
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.52%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 57 (86.36%) Firewall
2 39 (59.09%) WAN
3 37 (56.06%) SD-WAN
4 34 (51.52%) LAN
5 24 (36.36%) Wireless
6 18 (27.27%) Wireshark
7 16 (24.24%) Network Security
8 13 (19.70%) BGP
8 13 (19.70%) OSPF
9 12 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (18.18%) VLAN
10 11 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
10 11 (16.67%) VPN
11 8 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (12.12%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (10.61%) MPLS
13 6 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (9.09%) WLAN
14 5 (7.58%) NGFW
15 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) GitLab
2 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (53.03%) Social Skills
2 23 (34.85%) Telecoms
3 20 (30.30%) Finance
4 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Law
6 3 (4.55%) Marketing
6 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Retail
7 2 (3.03%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (57.58%) Network Engineer
2 13 (19.70%) Senior
3 9 (13.64%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Lead
4 6 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Automation Specialist
6 4 (6.06%) Consultant
6 4 (6.06%) Network Specialist
6 4 (6.06%) Telecoms Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Telecoms Specialist
7 3 (4.55%) Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Collaboration Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Network Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Security Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) Jinja
1 4 (6.06%) JSON
1 4 (6.06%) REST
1 4 (6.06%) XML
1 4 (6.06%) YAML
1 4 (6.06%) YANG
2 3 (4.55%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (40.91%) Data Centre
2 16 (24.24%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.06%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.55%) FlexPod
4 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.55%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.55%) Replication
4 3 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.03%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.03%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Windows
3 4 (6.06%) Unix
3 4 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.52%) CentOS
4 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) Load Balancing
2 18 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
2 18 (27.27%) Network Virtualisation
3 17 (25.76%) Change Management
3 17 (25.76%) Coaching
4 16 (24.24%) Asset Management
4 16 (24.24%) Capacity Planning
4 16 (24.24%) Customer Service
4 16 (24.24%) Network Planning
4 16 (24.24%) Problem Management
5 10 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (15.15%) DevOps
5 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (13.64%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.61%) SIEM
8 6 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (7.58%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (7.58%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.15%) Python
2 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (16.67%) CCNP
3 8 (12.12%) CISSP
4 5 (7.58%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.58%) CEH
5 4 (6.06%) CCIE
5 4 (6.06%) Degree
6 3 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.55%) CCSP
6 3 (4.55%) CISA
6 3 (4.55%) CISM
6 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.52%) CCDE
8 1 (1.52%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (4.55%) GRC
2 3 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.06%) vSphere
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.03%) Firmware
4 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.52%) Docker
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (19.70%) Terraform
2 9 (13.64%) FortiGate
3 7 (10.61%) Ansible
4 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (4.55%) Grafana
5 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.03%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.52%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (84.85%) Cisco
2 22 (33.33%) Meraki
3 19 (28.79%) CheckPoint
3 19 (28.79%) SolarWinds
4 16 (24.24%) Fortinet
5 13 (19.70%) VMware
6 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 11 (16.67%) F5
8 7 (10.61%) Juniper
9 6 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (6.06%) Red Hat
11 3 (4.55%) Dell
11 3 (4.55%) EMC
11 3 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (4.55%) Google
11 3 (4.55%) NetApp
11 3 (4.55%) Splunk
11 3 (4.55%) Tenable
11 3 (4.55%) Zscaler
12 2 (3.03%) HP