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 14 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 346 372
Rank change year-on-year +29 +26 +90
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 64 68 176
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.06% 1.23% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 35 48 154
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £45,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £97,500 £85,000
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 6,017 5,545 12,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.78% 40.08% 40.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,358 3,653 10,026
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,037 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
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 14 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 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (65.63%) Azure
2 21 (32.81%) AWS
3 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.94%) OpenShift
5 6 (9.38%) Apigee
5 6 (9.38%) Kong
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.13%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.13%) OCI
8 2 (3.13%) Tessian
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.56%) GitHub
9 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (82.81%) Firewall
2 32 (50.00%) WAN
3 30 (46.88%) SD-WAN
4 29 (45.31%) LAN
5 21 (32.81%) Wireless
6 16 (25.00%) Network Security
7 15 (23.44%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (20.31%) Wireshark
9 11 (17.19%) BGP
9 11 (17.19%) Cisco ISE
9 11 (17.19%) OSPF
10 10 (15.63%) VLAN
11 9 (14.06%) VPN
12 8 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (10.94%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (10.94%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (9.38%) MPLS
14 6 (9.38%) NGFW
14 6 (9.38%) WLAN
15 4 (6.25%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (48.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.81%) Telecoms
3 17 (26.56%) Finance
4 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Banking
6 4 (6.25%) Retail
7 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Marketing
7 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.13%) Law
8 2 (3.13%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (54.69%) Network Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Senior
3 9 (14.06%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Automation Specialist
4 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Lead
4 6 (9.38%) Network Specialist
4 6 (9.38%) Telecoms Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Telecoms Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Network Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) Jinja
1 6 (9.38%) JSON
1 6 (9.38%) REST
1 6 (9.38%) XML
1 6 (9.38%) YAML
1 6 (9.38%) YANG
2 3 (4.69%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.94%) Data Centre
2 12 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 6 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.81%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.25%) Private Cloud
5 4 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 3 (4.69%) FlexPod
6 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.69%) Replication
6 3 (4.69%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 2 (3.13%) e-Learning
7 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.56%) CMDB
8 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.75%) Linux
2 9 (14.06%) Windows
3 6 (9.38%) Unix
4 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.56%) CentOS
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 15 (23.44%) Change Management
3 14 (21.88%) Network Monitoring
3 14 (21.88%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (20.31%) Coaching
5 12 (18.75%) Asset Management
5 12 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
5 12 (18.75%) Customer Service
5 12 (18.75%) Network Planning
5 12 (18.75%) Problem Management
6 11 (17.19%) DevOps
6 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (14.06%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (10.94%) Containerisation
10 6 (9.38%) API Management
10 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (9.38%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) Python
2 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (15.63%) CCNP
3 7 (10.94%) CISSP
4 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.81%) CEH
4 5 (7.81%) Degree
5 4 (6.25%) CCIE
6 3 (4.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.69%) CCSP
6 3 (4.69%) CISA
6 3 (4.69%) CISM
6 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.56%) CCDE
8 1 (1.56%) CCSM
8 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (4.69%) GRC
2 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.25%) vSphere
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.56%) Docker
5 1 (1.56%) Firmware
5 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Terraform
2 10 (15.63%) FortiGate
3 7 (10.94%) Ansible
4 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.69%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (4.69%) Grafana
6 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.56%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.56%) Packer
7 1 (1.56%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (84.38%) Cisco
2 17 (26.56%) Meraki
3 16 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 16 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 13 (20.31%) F5
4 13 (20.31%) SolarWinds
4 13 (20.31%) VMware
5 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 9 (14.06%) Juniper
7 6 (9.38%) Red Hat
8 5 (7.81%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (6.25%) EMC
10 3 (4.69%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (4.69%) Google
10 3 (4.69%) NetApp
10 3 (4.69%) Splunk
10 3 (4.69%) Tenable
11 2 (3.13%) CyberArk
11 2 (3.13%) iManage
11 2 (3.13%) Zscaler