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 5 December 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
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 325 318
Rank change year-on-year +41 -7 +147
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 95 140 172
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.73% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 1.95% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 38 94 137
10th Percentile £49,879 £42,063 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,875 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £72,031 £76,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £83,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 6,725 7,173 8,407
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.88% 37.60% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,504 4,331 6,872
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £76,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -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 5 December 2025.

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 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.74%) Azure
2 17 (17.89%) AWS
3 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.16%) Mimecast
5 3 (3.16%) OCI
5 3 (3.16%) Tessian
6 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.11%) GCP
6 2 (2.11%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.05%) IaaS
7 1 (1.05%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (63.16%) Firewall
2 51 (53.68%) SD-WAN
2 51 (53.68%) WAN
3 44 (46.32%) LAN
4 32 (33.68%) Wireshark
5 31 (32.63%) Wireless
6 19 (20.00%) VPN
7 17 (17.89%) Network Security
8 16 (16.84%) BGP
9 15 (15.79%) OSPF
10 10 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (9.47%) EIGRP
12 8 (8.42%) VLAN
13 6 (6.32%) WLAN
14 5 (5.26%) BIG-IP
14 5 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 5 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (5.26%) MPLS
15 4 (4.21%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) GitLab
1 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (44.21%) Social Skills
2 30 (31.58%) Finance
3 24 (25.26%) Telecoms
4 18 (18.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Law
6 2 (2.11%) French Language
6 2 (2.11%) Local Government
6 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Marketing
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Network Engineer
2 20 (21.05%) Architect
3 11 (11.58%) Analyst
3 11 (11.58%) Senior
4 8 (8.42%) Administrator
4 8 (8.42%) Network Analyst
4 8 (8.42%) Network Support
4 8 (8.42%) Network Support Analyst
4 8 (8.42%) Support Analyst
5 7 (7.37%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Lead
6 5 (5.26%) Network Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) DBA
7 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Network Administrator
7 4 (4.21%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) SQL DBA
8 3 (3.16%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 55 (57.89%) Data Centre
2 24 (25.26%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.32%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.16%) Fibre Optics
6 3 (3.16%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.11%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.05%) Clustering
8 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.26%) Linux
2 4 (4.21%) Windows
3 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.05%) CentOS
4 1 (1.05%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.74%) Load Balancing
2 31 (32.63%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (29.47%) Capacity Planning
4 27 (28.42%) Network Monitoring
5 25 (26.32%) Change Management
5 25 (26.32%) Network Virtualisation
6 24 (25.26%) AI
6 24 (25.26%) Asset Management
6 24 (25.26%) Coaching
6 24 (25.26%) Customer Service
6 24 (25.26%) Network Planning
6 24 (25.26%) Problem Management
7 20 (21.05%) Time Management
8 19 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
9 18 (18.95%) Software Licensing
10 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.53%) Incident Response
12 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
13 8 (8.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.63%) Python
2 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.21%) Bash
3 4 (4.21%) SQL
3 4 (4.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (28.42%) Degree
2 19 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (12.63%) CCNP
4 8 (8.42%) CCIE
5 7 (7.37%) CISSP
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.16%) CCNA
7 3 (3.16%) CEH
7 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.11%) CCDE
8 2 (2.11%) CCSP
8 2 (2.11%) CISA
8 2 (2.11%) CISM
8 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.16%) GRC
2 3 (3.16%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.11%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.16%) Firmware
3 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.05%) Docker
4 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Ansible
2 12 (12.63%) Terraform
3 8 (8.42%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.16%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.05%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) SmoothWall
7 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (62.11%) Cisco
2 34 (35.79%) SolarWinds
3 33 (34.74%) Microsoft
4 28 (29.47%) Meraki
5 26 (27.37%) CheckPoint
6 18 (18.95%) Adobe
6 18 (18.95%) Apple
7 17 (17.89%) Fortinet
8 10 (10.53%) VMware
9 9 (9.47%) Aruba
9 9 (9.47%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (9.47%) F5
10 6 (6.32%) Extreme Networks
10 6 (6.32%) Juniper
10 6 (6.32%) Zscaler
11 5 (5.26%) Arista
12 4 (4.21%) Dell
12 4 (4.21%) EMC
13 3 (3.16%) Google
13 3 (3.16%) Tenable