Palo Alto Contracts in Reading

Palo Alto
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 82 86
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -25
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 21 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.78% 0.29% 0.80%
As % of the Vendors category 3.54% 0.57% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 6
10th Percentile - - £547
25th Percentile £603 - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £653
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.13%
75th Percentile £608 - £706
90th Percentile - - £708
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £563 £649
% change year-on-year +7.56% -13.33% +66.95%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 593 523 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 50.13% 50.14% 41.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 354 385
10th Percentile £213 £372 £213
25th Percentile £412 £482 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +0.96%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 6
10th Percentile £14.50 £45.75 £26.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.68 £27.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £32.45
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +99.34% -42.83%
75th Percentile £61.60 £69.05 £34.97
90th Percentile - £76.62 £43.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £60.88 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +43.24% +23.19%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Reading over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) OCI
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (95.24%) Firewall
2 14 (66.67%) DHCP
2 14 (66.67%) DNS
2 14 (66.67%) SAN
3 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
3 5 (23.81%) WAN
4 4 (19.05%) Network Security
5 3 (14.29%) BGP
5 3 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (14.29%) EIGRP
5 3 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (14.29%) IPsec
5 3 (14.29%) LAN
5 3 (14.29%) MPLS
5 3 (14.29%) OSPF
5 3 (14.29%) VPN
5 3 (14.29%) Wireless
6 2 (9.52%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (9.52%) Sourcefire
6 2 (9.52%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Server Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Network Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Network Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Technical Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 17 (80.95%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Linux
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
1 14 (66.67%) Windows 10
1 14 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 14 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 14 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 14 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
1 14 (66.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) ITIL
1 16 (76.19%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (66.67%) Break/Fix
3 14 (66.67%) Converged Infrastructure
3 14 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 14 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 14 (66.67%) Project Management
3 14 (66.67%) Server Management
3 14 (66.67%) Storage Management
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (9.52%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (9.52%) Scrum
4 2 (9.52%) User Stories
5 1 (4.76%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) CCNP
1 17 (80.95%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (76.19%) CCNA
3 15 (71.43%) Degree
4 14 (66.67%) DV Cleared
4 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) CCIE
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 14 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 14 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
1 14 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 14 (66.67%) SCCM
1 14 (66.67%) SCOM
1 14 (66.67%) vCenter Server
1 14 (66.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Cisco
2 16 (76.19%) Juniper
3 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 14 (66.67%) 3PAR
4 14 (66.67%) Dell
4 14 (66.67%) EMC
4 14 (66.67%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (66.67%) HP
4 14 (66.67%) Oracle
4 14 (66.67%) Symantec
4 14 (66.67%) Veeam
4 14 (66.67%) VMware
5 3 (14.29%) Aruba
6 2 (9.52%) Blue Coat
6 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
6 2 (9.52%) F5
6 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
6 2 (9.52%) McAfee
6 2 (9.52%) Zscaler