Palo Alto Contracts in Central London

Palo Alto
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Palo Alto over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Palo Alto Networks.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 161 163
Rank change year-on-year +44 +2 -14
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 18 11 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.29% 0.80%
As % of the Vendors category 1.74% 0.74% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 28
10th Percentile £427 £371 £400
25th Percentile £456 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £619 £606 £538
90th Percentile £725 £668 £542
London median daily rate £525 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -10.64% +17.50% +11.11%

All Vendors
Central London

Palo Alto is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,033 1,489 1,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.92% 39.84% 37.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 998 1,302
10th Percentile £300 £231 £301
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £738
London median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.30 £13.88
25th Percentile £13.56 £19.32 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.75 £23.00 £26.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% -12.68% +83.46%
75th Percentile £23.75 £52.56 £44.50
90th Percentile £25.38 £53.05 £58.20
London median hourly rate £22.50 £26.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.09% -24.29% +31.33%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Central London

Palo Alto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Central London

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Central London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Central London

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Palo Alto within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +51 14 £513 -1.20% 11
Camden - 1 £450 -
City of Westminster - 1 £518 -
Palo Alto
London

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) LAN
2 7 (38.89%) WAN
3 6 (33.33%) Wireless
4 5 (27.78%) BGP
4 5 (27.78%) OSPF
4 5 (27.78%) SD-WAN
5 4 (22.22%) WLAN
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (16.67%) DNS
6 3 (16.67%) EIGRP
6 3 (16.67%) IPsec
6 3 (16.67%) VPN
7 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (11.11%) DHCP
7 2 (11.11%) Internet
7 2 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) SOC Architect
3 3 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Network Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Presales Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Presales Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.56%) VMS
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
2 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (16.67%) SOAR
3 2 (11.11%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 2 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.11%) Information Security
3 2 (11.11%) Information Security Management
3 2 (11.11%) ISMS
3 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (11.11%) OWASP
3 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CCNP
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (5.56%) CCIE
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) COBIT
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) CSIRT
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) CASB
2 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) SCOrch
2 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Juniper
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 3 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (11.11%) Imperva
5 2 (11.11%) Netskope
6 1 (5.56%) Aruba
6 1 (5.56%) Citrix
6 1 (5.56%) F5
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) ProCurve
6 1 (5.56%) Riverbed
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.56%) Synology
6 1 (5.56%) Veeam
6 1 (5.56%) VMware
6 1 (5.56%) Zerto