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 24 September 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
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 314 343
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 +7
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 150 104 156
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.64% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.94% 1.28% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 75 60 106
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,505 £50,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% +10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 7,731 8,124 8,814
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.38% 49.67% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,468 3,809 4,901
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.20% -6.82% -4.35%

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 24 September 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 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (34.00%) Azure
2 26 (17.33%) AWS
3 25 (16.67%) Serverless
4 16 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.33%) Mimecast
6 8 (5.33%) OneDrive
7 7 (4.67%) GCP
8 6 (4.00%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.00%) GitHub
9 3 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.00%) OCI
10 2 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.67%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 99 (66.00%) Firewall
2 64 (42.67%) WAN
3 50 (33.33%) VPN
4 44 (29.33%) Network Security
4 44 (29.33%) VLAN
5 42 (28.00%) SD-WAN
6 40 (26.67%) BGP
6 40 (26.67%) LAN
7 38 (25.33%) DNS
8 30 (20.00%) OSPF
9 25 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
9 25 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 25 (16.67%) DHCP
10 22 (14.67%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (12.67%) MPLS
12 18 (12.00%) Wireless
13 14 (9.33%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (9.33%) VXLAN
14 12 (8.00%) TCP/IP
15 10 (6.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 25 (16.67%) Snyk
2 3 (2.00%) Git
2 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (6.67%) Banking
3 10 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.00%) Finance
4 9 (6.00%) Marketing
4 9 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.00%) Retail
5 8 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.67%) Law
6 4 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (0.67%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.67%) French Language
8 1 (0.67%) German Language
8 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (39.33%) Senior
2 43 (28.67%) Architect
2 43 (28.67%) Network Engineer
3 35 (23.33%) Security Architect
4 27 (18.00%) Senior Architect
5 25 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
5 25 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
5 25 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 25 (16.67%) Senior Security Architect
6 17 (11.33%) Network Architect
7 16 (10.67%) Analyst
7 16 (10.67%) Network Analyst
8 14 (9.33%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (9.33%) Senior Network Analyst
9 11 (7.33%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (6.67%) Network Security Architect
10 10 (6.67%) Security Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Consultant
11 9 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (5.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.67%) OAuth
1 10 (6.67%) SAML
2 8 (5.33%) Terraform
3 7 (4.67%) 802.1X
4 6 (4.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.33%) Data Centre
2 15 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 13 (8.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (7.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.00%) FlexPod
6 6 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.00%) CMDB
7 3 (2.00%) PKI
7 3 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.00%) Replication
8 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.67%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.00%) Windows
2 17 (11.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (54.67%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (26.67%) Cloud Security
3 33 (22.00%) CI/CD
4 30 (20.00%) AI
5 28 (18.67%) Threat Modelling
5 28 (18.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 26 (17.33%) Security Architecture
7 25 (16.67%) Application Security
7 25 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 25 (16.67%) SDLC
7 25 (16.67%) Security Testing
8 24 (16.00%) IT Strategy
8 24 (16.00%) Technology Strategy
8 24 (16.00%) Validation
9 22 (14.67%) Zero Trust
10 21 (14.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (14.00%) Mentoring
11 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (12.67%) Incident Response
13 17 (11.33%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.67%) Python
2 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (14.67%) CCNP
3 13 (8.67%) CCNA
4 8 (5.33%) CCIE
5 7 (4.67%) Degree
6 6 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.33%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.00%) CCDP
8 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.33%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.33%) MBA
9 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.33%) PMP
9 2 (1.33%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.67%) CCIE Security
10 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.67%) GRC
2 23 (15.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (15.33%) NIST
3 11 (7.33%) SLA
4 10 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.33%) GDPR
6 3 (2.00%) PMO
7 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (18.67%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 16 (10.67%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.00%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (22.00%) FortiGate
2 16 (10.67%) Ansible
3 13 (8.67%) CASB
4 9 (6.00%) Kubernetes
5 8 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 6 (4.00%) Grafana
7 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.00%) Packer
8 1 (0.67%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.67%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (60.67%) Cisco
2 54 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 42 (28.00%) Fortinet
4 32 (21.33%) CrowdStrike
5 29 (19.33%) VMware
6 27 (18.00%) Tenable
7 20 (13.33%) Aruba
8 18 (12.00%) Juniper
9 15 (10.00%) Qualys
10 13 (8.67%) F5
11 12 (8.00%) Veeam
12 11 (7.33%) SonicWALL
12 11 (7.33%) WatchGuard
13 10 (6.67%) Arista
14 9 (6.00%) CheckPoint
14 9 (6.00%) Zscaler
15 8 (5.33%) N-able
15 8 (5.33%) Splunk
16 7 (4.67%) Meraki
17 5 (3.33%) Sophos