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 4 August 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 350 343
Rank change year-on-year +56 -7 +44
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 165 83 163
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 2.32% 1.06% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 84 61 119
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £78,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +10.17% -1.67%

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 7,117 7,828 9,798
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.95% 47.44% 38.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,045 4,046 6,542
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,504
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.66% -5.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%

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 4 August 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 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (33.94%) Azure
2 39 (23.64%) AWS
3 25 (15.15%) Serverless
4 19 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.24%) GCP
7 6 (3.64%) GitHub
7 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.03%) Apigee
8 5 (3.03%) Kong
8 5 (3.03%) OCI
9 4 (2.42%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.82%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.82%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.61%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 102 (61.82%) Firewall
2 69 (41.82%) WAN
3 50 (30.30%) LAN
4 47 (28.48%) Network Security
5 42 (25.45%) SD-WAN
6 41 (24.85%) BGP
7 40 (24.24%) VLAN
8 39 (23.64%) VPN
9 31 (18.79%) DNS
9 31 (18.79%) OSPF
10 25 (15.15%) Cisco ISE
11 24 (14.55%) Cisco Nexus
12 23 (13.94%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (13.94%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (13.94%) Wireless
13 22 (13.33%) MPLS
14 17 (10.30%) DHCP
15 14 (8.48%) Cisco Firepower
16 13 (7.88%) VXLAN
17 11 (6.67%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 25 (15.15%) Snyk
2 6 (3.64%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 45 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (12.73%) Telecoms
4 18 (10.91%) Banking
5 17 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (8.48%) Finance
6 14 (8.48%) Retail
7 13 (7.88%) Marketing
7 13 (7.88%) Public Sector
8 10 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.42%) Legal
10 3 (1.82%) Law
10 3 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.21%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.61%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.61%) French Language
12 1 (0.61%) German Language
12 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (41.82%) Senior
2 51 (30.91%) Network Engineer
3 47 (28.48%) Architect
4 35 (21.21%) Security Architect
5 29 (17.58%) Senior Architect
6 25 (15.15%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (15.15%) Cloud Security Architect
6 25 (15.15%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 25 (15.15%) Senior Security Architect
7 19 (11.52%) Network Architect
8 16 (9.70%) Analyst
8 16 (9.70%) Network Analyst
8 16 (9.70%) Senior Network Engineer
9 14 (8.48%) Senior Analyst
9 14 (8.48%) Senior Network Analyst
10 11 (6.67%) Network Specialist
10 11 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (6.06%) Network Security Architect
12 8 (4.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 8 (4.85%) Network Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.06%) OAuth
1 10 (6.06%) SAML
1 10 (6.06%) XMPP
2 5 (3.03%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.03%) Jinja
2 5 (3.03%) JSON
2 5 (3.03%) REST
2 5 (3.03%) XML
2 5 (3.03%) YAML
2 5 (3.03%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 44 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 17 (10.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 10 (6.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 10 (6.06%) FlexPod
4 10 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.06%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (4.24%) Replication
6 6 (3.64%) CMDB
6 6 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.82%) PKI
9 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.73%) Windows
2 19 (11.52%) Linux
3 16 (9.70%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (49.09%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (24.85%) CI/CD
3 38 (23.03%) Cloud Security
4 29 (17.58%) AI
5 28 (16.97%) Security Architecture
6 27 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (16.36%) Threat Modelling
7 25 (15.15%) Application Security
7 25 (15.15%) DevSecOps
7 25 (15.15%) SDLC
7 25 (15.15%) Security Testing
8 23 (13.94%) IT Strategy
8 23 (13.94%) Technology Strategy
8 23 (13.94%) Validation
8 23 (13.94%) Vulnerability Management
9 21 (12.73%) Mentoring
10 19 (11.52%) Zero Trust
11 18 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (10.30%) Network Segmentation
12 17 (10.30%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.58%) Python
2 7 (4.24%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.21%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (16.97%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (15.15%) CCNP
3 13 (7.88%) Azure Certification
3 13 (7.88%) CCNA
4 11 (6.67%) CCIE
5 9 (5.45%) Degree
6 4 (2.42%) CCSE
6 4 (2.42%) JNCIE
6 4 (2.42%) JNCIP
6 4 (2.42%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.82%) CCIE Security
7 3 (1.82%) CCSA
8 2 (1.21%) CCDP
8 2 (1.21%) CEH
8 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.21%) MBA
8 2 (1.21%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.36%) GRC
2 19 (11.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (11.52%) NIST
3 6 (3.64%) SLA
4 5 (3.03%) GDPR
4 5 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.82%) PMO
6 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (15.15%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.88%) Active Directory
4 10 (6.06%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 7 (4.24%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (4.24%) vSphere
6 5 (3.03%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (21.21%) FortiGate
2 24 (14.55%) Ansible
3 17 (10.30%) Terraform
4 12 (7.27%) CASB
4 12 (7.27%) Kubernetes
5 10 (6.06%) Cisco CUCM
5 10 (6.06%) Grafana
6 6 (3.64%) Packer
7 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.82%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.61%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (64.24%) Cisco
2 55 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 43 (26.06%) Fortinet
4 33 (20.00%) VMware
5 30 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
6 26 (15.76%) Tenable
7 22 (13.33%) F5
8 20 (12.12%) Juniper
9 19 (11.52%) Aruba
10 15 (9.09%) Qualys
11 13 (7.88%) CheckPoint
12 12 (7.27%) Meraki
13 11 (6.67%) Arista
13 11 (6.67%) Splunk
14 8 (4.85%) Zscaler
15 7 (4.24%) NetApp
15 7 (4.24%) Veeam
16 6 (3.64%) EMC
16 6 (3.64%) ServiceNow
17 5 (3.03%) SonicWALL