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 1 May 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 340 393
Rank change year-on-year +36 +53 +82
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 89 53 183
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.39% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 1.61% 0.91% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 46 43 159
10th Percentile £36,625 £42,563 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,125 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,001
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 5,528 5,797 13,434
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.48% 43.08% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,546 3,858 10,060
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 1 May 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 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 41 (46.07%) Azure
2 32 (35.96%) AWS
3 17 (19.10%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (19.10%) Serverless
4 7 (7.87%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.74%) Apigee
5 6 (6.74%) Kong
6 5 (5.62%) GitHub
6 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (4.49%) GCP
7 4 (4.49%) OCI
8 3 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.37%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.37%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.12%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.12%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 51 (57.30%) Firewall
2 30 (33.71%) WAN
3 28 (31.46%) LAN
4 20 (22.47%) Cisco ASA
5 19 (21.35%) Network Security
5 19 (21.35%) SD-WAN
6 16 (17.98%) VLAN
7 15 (16.85%) Cisco ISE
8 14 (15.73%) BGP
8 14 (15.73%) OSPF
9 13 (14.61%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (13.48%) VPN
10 12 (13.48%) Wireless
11 10 (11.24%) MPLS
12 9 (10.11%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (8.99%) Unified Communications
13 8 (8.99%) WebEx
14 7 (7.87%) WLAN
15 6 (6.74%) NGFW
16 5 (5.62%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 17 (19.10%) Snyk
2 6 (6.74%) GitLab
3 5 (5.62%) Git
3 5 (5.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (17.98%) Telecoms
4 12 (13.48%) Banking
5 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (10.11%) Retail
7 8 (8.99%) Finance
7 8 (8.99%) Marketing
7 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.37%) Law
9 3 (3.37%) Legal
10 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (38.20%) Senior
2 27 (30.34%) Network Engineer
3 22 (24.72%) Architect
4 20 (22.47%) Senior Architect
5 17 (19.10%) Cloud Architect
5 17 (19.10%) Cloud Security Architect
5 17 (19.10%) Security Architect
5 17 (19.10%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 17 (19.10%) Senior Security Architect
6 8 (8.99%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Network Specialist
7 7 (7.87%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Automation Specialist
8 6 (6.74%) Telecoms Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Telecoms Specialist
9 5 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Collaboration Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) XMPP
2 6 (6.74%) Jinja
2 6 (6.74%) JSON
2 6 (6.74%) REST
2 6 (6.74%) XML
2 6 (6.74%) YAML
2 6 (6.74%) YANG
3 1 (1.12%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.09%) Data Centre
2 11 (12.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (8.99%) FlexPod
3 8 (8.99%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.99%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.62%) CMDB
5 5 (5.62%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.62%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.62%) Replication
6 4 (4.49%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.25%) e-Learning
8 2 (2.25%) PKI
9 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.12%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.10%) Linux
2 15 (16.85%) Windows
3 10 (11.24%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.70%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
2 28 (31.46%) Cloud Security
3 22 (24.72%) Security Architecture
4 19 (21.35%) AI
5 17 (19.10%) Application Security
5 17 (19.10%) DevSecOps
5 17 (19.10%) SDLC
5 17 (19.10%) Security Testing
5 17 (19.10%) Threat Modelling
6 16 (17.98%) IT Strategy
6 16 (17.98%) Technology Strategy
6 16 (17.98%) Validation
7 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (13.48%) Mentoring
9 11 (12.36%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (11.24%) DevOps
11 9 (10.11%) Incident Response
11 9 (10.11%) Information Security
11 9 (10.11%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.84%) Python
2 6 (6.74%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (11.24%) Azure Certification
3 9 (10.11%) CCNP
4 7 (7.87%) CISSP
4 7 (7.87%) Degree
5 6 (6.74%) CEH
6 4 (4.49%) CCIE
6 4 (4.49%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.37%) CCSE
7 3 (3.37%) CCSP
7 3 (3.37%) CISA
7 3 (3.37%) CISM
7 3 (3.37%) JNCIP
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.25%) CCIE Security
8 2 (2.25%) CCSA
8 2 (2.25%) JNCIE
8 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.47%) GRC
2 8 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (5.62%) NIST
4 5 (5.62%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (3.37%) GDPR
5 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (19.10%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (5.62%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (5.62%) vSphere
4 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (19.10%) Ansible
2 15 (16.85%) Terraform
3 11 (12.36%) FortiGate
4 8 (8.99%) Cisco CUCM
4 8 (8.99%) Grafana
5 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.62%) Packer
7 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.37%) Proxmox
7 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.12%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 53 (59.55%) Cisco
2 28 (31.46%) Microsoft
3 24 (26.97%) CrowdStrike
3 24 (26.97%) Fortinet
4 20 (22.47%) Tenable
5 19 (21.35%) VMware
6 14 (15.73%) F5
7 11 (12.36%) Juniper
7 11 (12.36%) Meraki
8 8 (8.99%) Splunk
9 6 (6.74%) CheckPoint
9 6 (6.74%) Red Hat
10 5 (5.62%) EMC
10 5 (5.62%) NetApp
10 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
11 4 (4.49%) Dell
11 4 (4.49%) HP
11 4 (4.49%) Veeam
12 3 (3.37%) Google
12 3 (3.37%) Sophos