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 10 June 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
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 372 411
Rank change year-on-year +90 +39 +9
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 131 62 186
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 0.41% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 2.18% 0.86% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 71 57 151
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £79,000 £90,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% 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 6,009 7,222 13,452
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.89% 47.77% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,043 3,854 9,857
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,779 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,948 £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 £96,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +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 10 June 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 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.88%) Azure
2 32 (24.43%) AWS
3 25 (19.08%) Serverless
4 15 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (7.63%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.58%) Apigee
6 6 (4.58%) GitHub
6 6 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.58%) Kong
7 5 (3.82%) GCP
7 5 (3.82%) OCI
8 3 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.29%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.76%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 77 (58.78%) Firewall
2 50 (38.17%) WAN
3 38 (29.01%) LAN
4 35 (26.72%) Network Security
5 33 (25.19%) SD-WAN
6 31 (23.66%) BGP
7 27 (20.61%) VLAN
8 26 (19.85%) Cisco ISE
9 25 (19.08%) OSPF
10 24 (18.32%) VPN
11 23 (17.56%) Wireless
12 21 (16.03%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (15.27%) DNS
14 17 (12.98%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (11.45%) MPLS
16 13 (9.92%) Cisco Firepower
17 11 (8.40%) NGFW
17 11 (8.40%) VXLAN
17 11 (8.40%) Wi-Fi
17 11 (8.40%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 25 (19.08%) Snyk
2 6 (4.58%) Git
2 6 (4.58%) GitLab
2 6 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (13.74%) Telecoms
4 14 (10.69%) Banking
5 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (8.40%) Finance
7 10 (7.63%) Retail
8 9 (6.87%) Marketing
8 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.05%) Legal
11 3 (2.29%) Law
12 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.76%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.76%) French Language
13 1 (0.76%) German Language
13 1 (0.76%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (43.51%) Senior
2 43 (32.82%) Architect
2 43 (32.82%) Network Engineer
3 31 (23.66%) Security Architect
4 29 (22.14%) Senior Architect
5 25 (19.08%) Cloud Architect
5 25 (19.08%) Cloud Security Architect
5 25 (19.08%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 25 (19.08%) Senior Security Architect
6 17 (12.98%) Senior Network Engineer
7 15 (11.45%) Network Architect
8 11 (8.40%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (7.63%) Network Specialist
10 8 (6.11%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Collaboration Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.58%) Telecoms Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.87%) XMPP
2 6 (4.58%) Jinja
2 6 (4.58%) JSON
2 6 (4.58%) OAuth
2 6 (4.58%) REST
2 6 (4.58%) SAML
2 6 (4.58%) XML
2 6 (4.58%) YAML
2 6 (4.58%) YANG
3 4 (3.05%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.24%) Data Centre
2 15 (11.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.87%) FlexPod
3 9 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.87%) Security Posture
3 9 (6.87%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (4.58%) CMDB
4 6 (4.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 6 (4.58%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.58%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.58%) Replication
4 6 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.50%) Linux
2 17 (12.98%) Windows
3 12 (9.16%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.98%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (32.06%) CI/CD
3 34 (25.95%) Cloud Security
4 29 (22.14%) Security Architecture
5 27 (20.61%) AI
6 25 (19.08%) Application Security
6 25 (19.08%) DevSecOps
6 25 (19.08%) SDLC
6 25 (19.08%) Security Testing
6 25 (19.08%) Threat Modelling
7 24 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (16.79%) IT Strategy
8 22 (16.79%) Technology Strategy
8 22 (16.79%) Validation
9 18 (13.74%) Mentoring
10 15 (11.45%) DevOps
10 15 (11.45%) Presales
11 13 (9.92%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (9.92%) Roadmaps
11 13 (9.92%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.85%) Python
2 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
2 6 (4.58%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (11.45%) CCNP
3 13 (9.92%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.63%) CCIE
5 6 (4.58%) Degree
6 4 (3.05%) CCNA
6 4 (3.05%) CCSE
6 4 (3.05%) JNCIE
6 4 (3.05%) JNCIP
7 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.29%) CCIE Security
7 3 (2.29%) CCSA
7 3 (2.29%) CEH
7 3 (2.29%) CISSP
8 2 (1.53%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.76%) CCSM
9 1 (0.76%) CCSP
9 1 (0.76%) CISA
9 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.85%) GRC
2 13 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (9.16%) NIST
4 4 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.29%) GDPR
6 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (19.08%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (12.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.11%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (4.58%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (4.58%) vSphere
5 5 (3.82%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (22.14%) FortiGate
2 20 (15.27%) Ansible
3 16 (12.21%) Terraform
4 10 (7.63%) Kubernetes
5 9 (6.87%) Cisco CUCM
5 9 (6.87%) Grafana
6 6 (4.58%) CASB
6 6 (4.58%) Packer
7 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.29%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.76%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 81 (61.83%) Cisco
2 40 (30.53%) Microsoft
3 31 (23.66%) Fortinet
4 30 (22.90%) CrowdStrike
5 26 (19.85%) Tenable
6 22 (16.79%) VMware
7 20 (15.27%) F5
8 15 (11.45%) Juniper
9 12 (9.16%) Meraki
10 9 (6.87%) Splunk
11 8 (6.11%) Arista
11 8 (6.11%) Aruba
11 8 (6.11%) CheckPoint
12 6 (4.58%) EMC
12 6 (4.58%) NetApp
12 6 (4.58%) Red Hat
12 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
13 4 (3.05%) Dell
13 4 (3.05%) HP
13 4 (3.05%) Veeam