Palo Alto Contracts in England

Palo Alto
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Palo Alto products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Palo Alto over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 281 456
Rank change year-on-year +14 +175 -5
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 317 430 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.91% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 2.01% 2.15% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 303 255
10th Percentile £378 £313 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £600
90th Percentile £731 £743 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 1
Median hourly rate - £62.62 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +254.96% -71.55%
UK median hourly rate - £63.23 £17.64
% change year-on-year - +258.45% -71.55%

All Vendors
England

Palo Alto falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,802 19,999 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.13% 42.52% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,992 13,722 19,314
10th Percentile £270 £267 £278
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,063 547 756
10th Percentile £12.28 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £18.84 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%
75th Percentile £59.10 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +24 138 £525 -12.50% 40
South East +14 68 £605 +21.00% 29
North of England -15 38 £440 +3.53% 12
North West -1 37 £437 +2.79% 9
South West +9 24 £646 +17.45% 7
East of England +1 20 £400 -23.81% 5
Midlands -2 13 £750 +66.67% 12
West Midlands +3 10 £750 +73.41% 8
East Midlands +3 3 £325 -44.92% 4
Yorkshire -1 1 £550 +10.00% 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (1.89%) Confluence
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.63%) IIS
4 2 (0.63%) nginx
4 2 (0.63%) WordPress
5 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 69 (21.77%) Azure
2 48 (15.14%) AWS
3 20 (6.31%) OCI
4 13 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.89%) GCP
6 6 (1.89%) GitHub
6 6 (1.89%) Route 53
7 5 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.58%) AWS CloudTrail
7 5 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.58%) SaaS
8 4 (1.26%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.26%) Asana
8 4 (1.26%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.26%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 228 (71.92%) Firewall
2 100 (31.55%) Network Security
3 89 (28.08%) Cisco ASA
4 87 (27.44%) WAN
5 73 (23.03%) BGP
6 70 (22.08%) OSPF
7 68 (21.45%) SD-WAN
8 67 (21.14%) LAN
9 66 (20.82%) VPN
10 62 (19.56%) Cisco ISE
11 58 (18.30%) Wireless
12 57 (17.98%) DNS
13 43 (13.56%) Cisco Nexus
13 43 (13.56%) IPsec
14 42 (13.25%) DHCP
15 37 (11.67%) EIGRP
16 36 (11.36%) MPLS
17 34 (10.73%) Wi-Fi
18 29 (9.15%) Cisco Firepower
19 28 (8.83%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.79%) JIRA
2 11 (3.47%) Git
2 11 (3.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.26%) GitLab
3 4 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
General
1 64 (20.19%) Finance
2 59 (18.61%) Social Skills
3 30 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.99%) Banking
6 14 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.79%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.52%) Legal
11 6 (1.89%) Marketing
11 6 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.89%) Retail
12 4 (1.26%) Aeronautics
12 4 (1.26%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.26%) Electronics
12 4 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 194 (61.20%) Network Engineer
2 46 (14.51%) Senior
3 43 (13.56%) Architect
4 38 (11.99%) Security Engineer
5 31 (9.78%) Senior Network Engineer
6 30 (9.46%) Network Security Engineer
7 27 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (6.31%) Cisco Engineer
8 20 (6.31%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 19 (5.99%) Network Architect
10 16 (5.05%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 12 (3.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 10 (3.15%) Storage Engineer
13 9 (2.84%) Consultant
13 9 (2.84%) Design Engineer
14 8 (2.52%) Analyst
14 8 (2.52%) Technical Architect
15 7 (2.21%) Network Consultant
15 7 (2.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.42%) Jinja
2 10 (3.15%) 802.1X
3 7 (2.21%) JSON
3 7 (2.21%) XML
4 6 (1.89%) NETCONF
4 6 (1.89%) YANG
5 5 (1.58%) Web Services
6 4 (1.26%) LDAP
6 4 (1.26%) Node.js
6 4 (1.26%) SAML
7 3 (0.95%) EDI
8 2 (0.63%) LAMP
8 2 (0.63%) RESTful
9 1 (0.32%) OAuth
9 1 (0.32%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.32%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (29.65%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.42%) PKI
3 11 (3.47%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.15%) Replication
5 9 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.84%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.21%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.21%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.89%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.58%) Clustering
8 5 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.95%) CCTV
10 3 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.95%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.93%) Windows
2 33 (10.41%) Linux
2 33 (10.41%) Windows Server
3 16 (5.05%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (5.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (4.73%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (4.42%) Windows XP
6 7 (2.21%) Unix
7 3 (0.95%) VMS
8 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (15.77%) ITIL
2 48 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (11.04%) Migration
4 32 (10.09%) Change Management
5 31 (9.78%) ITSM
6 30 (9.46%) Disaster Recovery
6 30 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 29 (9.15%) DevOps
8 27 (8.52%) Network Management
9 22 (6.94%) Load Balancing
9 22 (6.94%) Network Design
10 21 (6.62%) Cloud Security
10 21 (6.62%) Storage Management
11 20 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (5.99%) High Availability
12 19 (5.99%) Investment Management
12 19 (5.99%) Project Management
13 18 (5.68%) Roadmaps
14 17 (5.36%) Mentoring
14 17 (5.36%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.83%) Python
2 24 (7.57%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.79%) Perl
3 12 (3.79%) Tcl
4 3 (0.95%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.63%) SQL
6 1 (0.32%) Bash
6 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 123 (38.80%) Cisco Certification
2 112 (35.33%) CCNP
3 102 (32.18%) Security Cleared
4 70 (22.08%) SC Cleared
5 65 (20.50%) CCNA
6 54 (17.03%) DV Cleared
7 26 (8.20%) CCIE
7 26 (8.20%) Degree
8 17 (5.36%) AWS Certification
9 13 (4.10%) CCSA
10 11 (3.47%) JNCIA
11 9 (2.84%) CISSP
12 7 (2.21%) CISM
13 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (1.58%) CCDP
14 5 (1.58%) CCIE Data Center
15 4 (1.26%) HND
15 4 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.15%) SLA
2 6 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.58%) NCSC
3 5 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.26%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) COBIT
5 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.32%) ISA99
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (9.15%) Active Directory
2 25 (7.89%) VMware NSX
3 23 (7.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (6.62%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.73%) Firmware
5 15 (4.73%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.26%) vSphere
8 2 (0.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (7.57%) Terraform
2 22 (6.94%) Ansible
2 22 (6.94%) vCenter Server
3 20 (6.31%) FortiGate
4 19 (5.99%) SCCM
5 15 (4.73%) WSUS
6 14 (4.42%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (4.42%) NetBackup
6 14 (4.42%) SCOM
7 11 (3.47%) Nessus
8 9 (2.84%) SolarWinds Orion
9 7 (2.21%) CASB
10 6 (1.89%) Kubernetes
10 6 (1.89%) Puppet
11 3 (0.95%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.95%) Kibana
12 2 (0.63%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.63%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 233 (73.50%) Cisco
2 72 (22.71%) F5
2 72 (22.71%) Juniper
3 70 (22.08%) CheckPoint
4 55 (17.35%) Fortinet
5 51 (16.09%) Microsoft
6 50 (15.77%) VMware
7 42 (13.25%) SolarWinds
8 39 (12.30%) Dell
9 25 (7.89%) Veeam
9 25 (7.89%) Zscaler
10 23 (7.26%) Citrix
11 22 (6.94%) Meraki
12 20 (6.31%) Symantec
13 18 (5.68%) Aruba
14 17 (5.36%) Extreme Networks
15 16 (5.05%) HP
15 16 (5.05%) Infoblox
16 15 (4.73%) Arista
16 15 (4.73%) Oracle