Palo Alto Contracts

Palo Alto
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 309 458
Rank change year-on-year +15 +149 -22
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 335 502 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.87% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 1.83% 2.02% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 353 313
10th Percentile £378 £305 £350
25th Percentile £431 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £650 £626 £588
90th Percentile £775 £743 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.97% - +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 23 3
10th Percentile - £52.13 £27.92
25th Percentile - £60.50 £43.35
Median hourly rate - £63.23 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - -8.43% +2.68%
75th Percentile - £80.25 -
90th Percentile - £81.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year - -10.21% +11.37%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,355 24,882 34,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.63% 42.90% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,374 16,645 23,109
10th Percentile £263 £271 £293
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £637
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 685 867
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.15
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.34
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +38 301 £525 +5.00% 104
UK excluding London -16 160 £518 +8.97% 55
London +32 131 £525 -8.70% 56
Work from Home +18 115 £555 +5.71% 48
South East +31 68 £605 +25.89% 25
North of England +6 35 £434 +15.65% 6
North West +10 34 £433 +18.75% 4
South West +19 22 £646 +18.80% 4
East of England +2 16 £450 -14.29% 5
Midlands +21 15 £750 +62.16% 7
West Midlands +11 12 £750 +66.67% 6
Scotland -5 5 £553 +11.06% 9
East Midlands +19 3 £325 -53.57% 1
Wales +7 1 £475 +5.56%
Yorkshire +1 1 £550 +10.00% 2

Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (2.39%) Confluence
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.90%) IIS
3 3 (0.90%) WordPress
4 2 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 82 (24.48%) Azure
2 48 (14.33%) AWS
3 20 (5.97%) OCI
4 19 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (2.39%) GitHub
6 8 (2.39%) Route 53
7 7 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.09%) GCP
8 6 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.79%) SaaS
8 6 (1.79%) Slack
9 5 (1.49%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.19%) Asana
10 4 (1.19%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 243 (72.54%) Firewall
2 100 (29.85%) Network Security
3 98 (29.25%) WAN
4 92 (27.46%) Cisco ASA
5 83 (24.78%) LAN
6 75 (22.39%) VPN
7 71 (21.19%) BGP
8 70 (20.90%) OSPF
9 69 (20.60%) Wireless
10 62 (18.51%) DNS
10 62 (18.51%) SD-WAN
11 59 (17.61%) Cisco ISE
12 49 (14.63%) Cisco Nexus
13 45 (13.43%) DHCP
14 42 (12.54%) IPsec
15 37 (11.04%) Wi-Fi
16 35 (10.45%) MPLS
17 34 (10.15%) WLAN
18 28 (8.36%) EIGRP
19 24 (7.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.58%) Git
1 12 (3.58%) JIRA
2 7 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.19%) GitLab
3 4 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
General
1 58 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.01%) Finance
3 36 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.67%) Telecoms
5 18 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.69%) Banking
7 9 (2.69%) Legal
8 8 (2.39%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.79%) Marketing
11 5 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.19%) Aeronautics
12 4 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.19%) Electronics
13 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.60%) Law
14 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 173 (51.64%) Network Engineer
2 55 (16.42%) Senior
3 48 (14.33%) Architect
4 37 (11.04%) Security Engineer
5 29 (8.66%) Senior Network Engineer
6 25 (7.46%) Network Security Engineer
7 24 (7.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.67%) Network Architect
9 15 (4.48%) Cisco Engineer
9 15 (4.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 15 (4.48%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 14 (4.18%) Consultant
11 13 (3.88%) Network Specialist
12 12 (3.58%) Network Consultant
12 12 (3.58%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 10 (2.99%) Analyst
13 10 (2.99%) Storage Engineer
14 7 (2.09%) Network Security Analyst
14 7 (2.09%) Security Architect
14 7 (2.09%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.48%) Jinja
2 13 (3.88%) 802.1X
3 8 (2.39%) JSON
3 8 (2.39%) XML
4 7 (2.09%) NETCONF
4 7 (2.09%) YANG
5 5 (1.49%) Web Services
6 4 (1.19%) LDAP
6 4 (1.19%) Node.js
6 4 (1.19%) SAML
7 3 (0.90%) EDI
7 3 (0.90%) LAMP
7 3 (0.90%) RESTful
8 2 (0.60%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.30%) OAuth
9 1 (0.30%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (30.15%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.57%) PKI
3 13 (3.88%) Replication
4 10 (2.99%) Operational Technology
4 10 (2.99%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.39%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.09%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (1.79%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.49%) Clustering
8 5 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.90%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.84%) Windows
2 35 (10.45%) Windows Server
3 31 (9.25%) Linux
4 18 (5.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 18 (5.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (5.07%) Windows 10
5 17 (5.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (4.18%) Windows XP
7 5 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.19%) Unix
8 4 (1.19%) VMS
9 2 (0.60%) CentOS
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (14.93%) ITIL
3 39 (11.64%) Migration
4 38 (11.34%) Change Management
5 32 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (8.66%) DevOps
7 28 (8.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (8.36%) Network Design
8 27 (8.06%) ITSM
9 26 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (7.16%) Storage Management
11 22 (6.57%) Agile
11 22 (6.57%) Cloud Security
11 22 (6.57%) Network Management
11 22 (6.57%) Project Management
12 20 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (5.97%) Load Balancing
12 20 (5.97%) Mentoring
13 19 (5.67%) Roadmaps
14 18 (5.37%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.03%) Python
2 26 (7.76%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.58%) Perl
3 12 (3.58%) Tcl
4 4 (1.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.90%) Bash
6 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (37.91%) Cisco Certification
2 114 (34.03%) CCNP
3 113 (33.73%) Security Cleared
4 81 (24.18%) SC Cleared
5 55 (16.42%) CCNA
6 52 (15.52%) DV Cleared
7 32 (9.55%) Degree
8 29 (8.66%) CCIE
9 12 (3.58%) AWS Certification
10 11 (3.28%) JNCIA
11 8 (2.39%) CISM
12 7 (2.09%) CCSA
13 6 (1.79%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (1.49%) CCDP
14 5 (1.49%) CCIE Data Center
14 5 (1.49%) CISSP
15 4 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (1.19%) HND
15 4 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.99%) SLA
2 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.49%) NCSC
4 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.30%) ISA99
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (10.75%) VMware NSX
2 33 (9.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (8.96%) Active Directory
4 21 (6.27%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.48%) Firmware
5 15 (4.48%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.60%) Squid
9 1 (0.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 31 (9.25%) FortiGate
2 28 (8.36%) Terraform
3 24 (7.16%) Ansible
4 22 (6.57%) vCenter Server
5 17 (5.07%) SCCM
6 15 (4.48%) WSUS
7 14 (4.18%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (4.18%) NetBackup
7 14 (4.18%) SCOM
8 12 (3.58%) Nessus
9 8 (2.39%) SolarWinds Orion
10 6 (1.79%) Kubernetes
11 5 (1.49%) CASB
12 4 (1.19%) CSIRT
12 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.19%) Puppet
13 3 (0.90%) Kibana
14 2 (0.60%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.60%) Packer
14 2 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 234 (69.85%) Cisco
2 73 (21.79%) Juniper
3 65 (19.40%) CheckPoint
4 61 (18.21%) F5
5 60 (17.91%) VMware
6 53 (15.82%) Fortinet
7 52 (15.52%) Microsoft
8 39 (11.64%) Dell
9 38 (11.34%) SolarWinds
10 27 (8.06%) Meraki
10 27 (8.06%) Zscaler
11 25 (7.46%) Veeam
12 21 (6.27%) Extreme Networks
13 20 (5.97%) Symantec
14 18 (5.37%) Citrix
14 18 (5.37%) Infoblox
15 17 (5.07%) Aruba
16 16 (4.78%) HP
16 16 (4.78%) Oracle
17 15 (4.48%) EMC