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 8 April 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
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 339 396
Rank change year-on-year +21 +57 +64
Permanent jobs citing Palo Alto 76 55 172
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.43% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 1.38% 1.04% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 44 42 152
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £61,250 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +7.93% -12.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £105,875 £97,500 £82,150
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%

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 5,499 5,308 12,771
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.94% 41.32% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,526 3,798 10,137
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,360 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,375 £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 8 April 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 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (52.63%) Azure
2 28 (36.84%) AWS
3 15 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (9.21%) OpenShift
4 7 (9.21%) Serverless
5 6 (7.89%) Apigee
5 6 (7.89%) Kong
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (5.26%) GitHub
6 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.26%) OCI
7 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.63%) GCP
9 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.32%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.32%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 49 (64.47%) Firewall
2 26 (34.21%) WAN
3 25 (32.89%) LAN
4 21 (27.63%) SD-WAN
5 18 (23.68%) Cisco ASA
5 18 (23.68%) Network Security
6 15 (19.74%) VLAN
7 11 (14.47%) Cisco ISE
7 11 (14.47%) Wireless
8 10 (13.16%) BGP
8 10 (13.16%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (13.16%) OSPF
9 9 (11.84%) VPN
10 8 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (10.53%) MPLS
11 6 (7.89%) NGFW
11 6 (7.89%) Unified Communications
11 6 (7.89%) WebEx
11 6 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (7.89%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) GitLab
1 7 (9.21%) Snyk
2 4 (5.26%) Git
2 4 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Telecoms
3 11 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Banking
5 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (9.21%) Finance
6 7 (9.21%) Retail
7 6 (7.89%) Marketing
7 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.95%) Legal
10 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.32%) Law
11 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) Senior
2 22 (28.95%) Network Engineer
3 13 (17.11%) Architect
4 10 (13.16%) Senior Architect
5 9 (11.84%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (9.21%) Cloud Security Architect
7 7 (9.21%) Security Architect
7 7 (9.21%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 7 (9.21%) Senior Security Architect
8 6 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Automation Specialist
8 6 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Lead
8 6 (7.89%) Network Specialist
8 6 (7.89%) Telecoms Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Telecoms Specialist
9 5 (6.58%) Collaboration Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) Jinja
1 6 (7.89%) JSON
1 6 (7.89%) REST
1 6 (7.89%) XML
1 6 (7.89%) XMPP
1 6 (7.89%) YAML
1 6 (7.89%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.21%) Private Cloud
2 7 (9.21%) Public Cloud
3 6 (7.89%) FlexPod
3 6 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.89%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (6.58%) Replication
5 4 (5.26%) CMDB
5 4 (5.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.63%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.37%) Linux
2 15 (19.74%) Windows
3 10 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.89%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) CentOS
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.95%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (23.68%) CI/CD
3 16 (21.05%) Cloud Security
4 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
6 12 (15.79%) Security Architecture
7 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (13.16%) DevOps
9 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (10.53%) IT Strategy
10 8 (10.53%) Presales
11 7 (9.21%) Application Security
11 7 (9.21%) Containerisation
11 7 (9.21%) DevSecOps
11 7 (9.21%) Incident Response
11 7 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (9.21%) Roadmaps
11 7 (9.21%) SDLC
11 7 (9.21%) Technology Strategy
11 7 (9.21%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.63%) Python
2 8 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.95%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (13.16%) CCNP
3 9 (11.84%) Azure Certification
4 7 (9.21%) CISSP
4 7 (9.21%) Degree
5 6 (7.89%) CEH
6 5 (6.58%) CCIE
7 3 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.95%) CCSE
7 3 (3.95%) CCSP
7 3 (3.95%) CISA
7 3 (3.95%) CISM
7 3 (3.95%) JNCIP
7 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.63%) CCIE Security
8 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.16%) GRC
2 6 (7.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.95%) GDPR
3 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.95%) NIST
3 3 (3.95%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (19.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.21%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (7.89%) vSphere
4 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (6.58%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.32%) Docker
7 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (23.68%) Terraform
2 15 (19.74%) Ansible
3 10 (13.16%) FortiGate
4 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
5 6 (7.89%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (7.89%) Grafana
6 4 (5.26%) Packer
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.95%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (67.11%) Cisco
2 26 (34.21%) Microsoft
3 24 (31.58%) Fortinet
4 22 (28.95%) VMware
5 16 (21.05%) F5
6 12 (15.79%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (13.16%) Tenable
8 9 (11.84%) Juniper
8 9 (11.84%) Meraki
9 7 (9.21%) EMC
10 6 (7.89%) CheckPoint
10 6 (7.89%) Red Hat
10 6 (7.89%) Splunk
11 5 (6.58%) HP
11 5 (6.58%) NetApp
12 4 (5.26%) Dell
12 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
12 4 (5.26%) Sophos
12 4 (5.26%) Veeam
13 3 (3.95%) Google