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 27 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 381 394
Rank change year-on-year +86 +13 +66
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 119 50 180
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 2.03% 0.72% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 66 46 153
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £61,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.41% +16.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £79,500 £86,563 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,001
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -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 5,876 6,920 13,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.83% 47.67% 40.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,894 3,684 9,814
10th Percentile £31,325 £30,000 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +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 27 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 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.66%) Azure
2 31 (26.05%) AWS
3 25 (21.01%) Serverless
4 15 (12.61%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.56%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.04%) Apigee
6 6 (5.04%) GitHub
6 6 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.04%) Kong
7 5 (4.20%) GCP
8 4 (3.36%) OCI
9 2 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.68%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.84%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 70 (58.82%) Firewall
2 44 (36.97%) WAN
3 35 (29.41%) LAN
4 30 (25.21%) Network Security
5 28 (23.53%) SD-WAN
6 27 (22.69%) BGP
7 24 (20.17%) Cisco ISE
7 24 (20.17%) OSPF
8 22 (18.49%) VLAN
9 21 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
9 21 (17.65%) Wireless
10 16 (13.45%) VPN
11 15 (12.61%) DNS
12 14 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (10.92%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (9.24%) MPLS
14 11 (9.24%) NGFW
14 11 (9.24%) WLAN
15 10 (8.40%) VXLAN
16 9 (7.56%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 25 (21.01%) Snyk
2 6 (5.04%) Git
2 6 (5.04%) GitLab
2 6 (5.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (15.13%) Telecoms
4 14 (11.76%) Banking
5 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (9.24%) Finance
7 10 (8.40%) Retail
8 9 (7.56%) Marketing
8 9 (7.56%) Public Sector
9 6 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Legal
11 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.68%) Law
11 2 (1.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.84%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.84%) French Language
12 1 (0.84%) German Language
12 1 (0.84%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.84%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 52 (43.70%) Senior
2 41 (34.45%) Network Engineer
3 40 (33.61%) Architect
4 29 (24.37%) Senior Architect
5 28 (23.53%) Security Architect
6 25 (21.01%) Cloud Architect
6 25 (21.01%) Cloud Security Architect
6 25 (21.01%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 25 (21.01%) Senior Security Architect
7 16 (13.45%) Senior Network Engineer
8 12 (10.08%) Network Architect
9 11 (9.24%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (7.56%) Network Specialist
11 7 (5.88%) Security Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) Collaboration Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 6 (5.04%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) XMPP
2 6 (5.04%) Jinja
2 6 (5.04%) JSON
2 6 (5.04%) REST
2 6 (5.04%) XML
2 6 (5.04%) YAML
2 6 (5.04%) YANG
3 4 (3.36%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.52%) OAuth
4 3 (2.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (31.09%) Data Centre
2 15 (12.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (7.56%) FlexPod
3 9 (7.56%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.56%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 6 (5.04%) CMDB
5 6 (5.04%) Private Cloud
5 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.04%) Replication
5 6 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.97%) Linux
2 17 (14.29%) Windows
3 12 (10.08%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.50%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 32 (26.89%) Cloud Security
4 28 (23.53%) Security Architecture
5 27 (22.69%) AI
6 25 (21.01%) Application Security
6 25 (21.01%) DevSecOps
6 25 (21.01%) SDLC
6 25 (21.01%) Security Testing
6 25 (21.01%) Threat Modelling
7 23 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (18.49%) IT Strategy
8 22 (18.49%) Technology Strategy
8 22 (18.49%) Validation
9 16 (13.45%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.61%) DevOps
10 15 (12.61%) Presales
11 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (10.08%) Roadmaps
13 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.01%) Python
2 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
2 6 (5.04%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.84%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (10.92%) Azure Certification
2 13 (10.92%) CCNP
3 10 (8.40%) CCIE
4 6 (5.04%) Degree
5 4 (3.36%) CCSE
5 4 (3.36%) JNCIE
5 4 (3.36%) JNCIP
6 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.52%) CCIE Security
6 3 (2.52%) CCNA
6 3 (2.52%) CCSA
6 3 (2.52%) CEH
6 3 (2.52%) CISSP
6 3 (2.52%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.84%) CCSM
7 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.84%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.85%) GRC
2 9 (7.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.72%) NIST
4 4 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.52%) GDPR
5 3 (2.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (21.01%) Virtual Machines
2 17 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (5.04%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (5.04%) vSphere
5 4 (3.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (19.33%) FortiGate
2 19 (15.97%) Ansible
3 16 (13.45%) Terraform
4 9 (7.56%) Cisco CUCM
4 9 (7.56%) Grafana
4 9 (7.56%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.04%) Packer
6 3 (2.52%) CASB
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.52%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.84%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 70 (58.82%) Cisco
2 35 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 29 (24.37%) CrowdStrike
4 27 (22.69%) Fortinet
5 26 (21.85%) Tenable
6 22 (18.49%) VMware
7 21 (17.65%) F5
8 15 (12.61%) Juniper
9 12 (10.08%) Meraki
10 9 (7.56%) Splunk
11 8 (6.72%) Arista
11 8 (6.72%) CheckPoint
12 6 (5.04%) EMC
12 6 (5.04%) NetApp
12 6 (5.04%) Red Hat
12 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow
13 4 (3.36%) Dell
13 4 (3.36%) HP
13 4 (3.36%) Veeam
14 3 (2.52%) Sophos