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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 341 346
Rank change year-on-year +23 +5 +195
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 103 161 181
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.69% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 1.28% 1.78% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 59 111 149
10th Percentile £45,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,799 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £77,500 £85,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 8,029 9,028 9,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 49.26% 38.52% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,844 5,102 8,005
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +4.55%

Palo Alto
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Palo Alto trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Palo Alto
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Palo Alto
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Palo Alto over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Palo Alto salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.91%) Apache
1 3 (2.91%) IIS
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.75%) Azure
2 11 (10.68%) AWS
3 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.85%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.88%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.91%) GCP
7 3 (2.91%) SaaS
8 2 (1.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.97%) IaaS
9 1 (0.97%) OCI
9 1 (0.97%) Slack
9 1 (0.97%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 51 (49.51%) WAN
2 49 (47.57%) Firewall
3 47 (45.63%) LAN
4 33 (32.04%) SD-WAN
5 27 (26.21%) Wireless
6 23 (22.33%) Wireshark
7 18 (17.48%) VPN
8 16 (15.53%) BGP
9 15 (14.56%) OSPF
10 14 (13.59%) Network Security
11 8 (7.77%) EIGRP
11 8 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (6.80%) DNS
12 7 (6.80%) WLAN
13 6 (5.83%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (5.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 6 (5.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (4.85%) BIG-IP
14 5 (4.85%) DHCP
14 5 (4.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (33.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 28 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 22 (21.36%) Finance
4 16 (15.53%) Telecoms
5 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.88%) Local Government
7 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Back Office
7 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) French Language
7 2 (1.94%) Games
8 1 (0.97%) Law
8 1 (0.97%) Marketing
8 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (34.95%) Network Engineer
2 19 (18.45%) Architect
3 16 (15.53%) Senior
4 13 (12.62%) Lead
5 12 (11.65%) Administrator
6 9 (8.74%) Analyst
7 8 (7.77%) Network Administrator
7 8 (7.77%) Network Analyst
7 8 (7.77%) Network Support
7 8 (7.77%) Network Support Analyst
7 8 (7.77%) Support Analyst
8 6 (5.83%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Consultant
10 4 (3.88%) DBA
10 4 (3.88%) SQL DBA
11 3 (2.91%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 49 (47.57%) Data Centre
2 16 (15.53%) Management Information System
3 14 (13.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.80%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.85%) Fibre Optics
5 5 (4.85%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.94%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) Clustering
8 1 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.97%) PKI
8 1 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.77%) Windows
2 7 (6.80%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.83%) Linux
4 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.97%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (29.13%) Cybersecurity
1 30 (29.13%) Network Virtualisation
2 26 (25.24%) Artificial Intelligence
3 23 (22.33%) Load Balancing
4 22 (21.36%) Time Management
5 20 (19.42%) Capacity Planning
6 19 (18.45%) Network Monitoring
6 19 (18.45%) Roadmaps
7 18 (17.48%) Customer Engagement
7 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (17.48%) Software Licensing
8 17 (16.50%) Asset Management
8 17 (16.50%) Change Management
9 16 (15.53%) Coaching
9 16 (15.53%) Customer Service
9 16 (15.53%) Network Planning
9 16 (15.53%) Problem Management
10 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (13.59%) Business Strategy
11 14 (13.59%) GTM Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.30%) Python
2 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.88%) SQL
2 4 (3.88%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.97%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (24.27%) Degree
2 12 (11.65%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (6.80%) CCNP
4 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.83%) CCIE
5 5 (4.85%) CCNA
5 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.88%) CISSP
6 4 (3.88%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.94%) CEH
8 2 (1.94%) CISM
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.97%) CCDE
9 1 (0.97%) CCSA
9 1 (0.97%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.97%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.97%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) NIST
2 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) GRC
3 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.85%) Hyper-V
2 5 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.94%) Firmware
4 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (27.18%) Ansible
2 19 (18.45%) Terraform
3 8 (7.77%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.91%) SmoothWall
6 2 (1.94%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.97%) Plesk
7 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (64.08%) Cisco
2 38 (36.89%) Microsoft
3 29 (28.16%) SolarWinds
4 25 (24.27%) Fortinet
5 23 (22.33%) Aruba
6 21 (20.39%) Meraki
7 19 (18.45%) CheckPoint
8 18 (17.48%) Adobe
8 18 (17.48%) Apple
9 13 (12.62%) Mellanox
9 13 (12.62%) NVIDIA
10 11 (10.68%) Juniper
11 9 (8.74%) VMware
12 8 (7.77%) F5
13 7 (6.80%) Arista
14 5 (4.85%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (4.85%) Extreme Networks
14 5 (4.85%) Zscaler
15 3 (2.91%) Dell
15 3 (2.91%) EMC