Palo Alto Contracts in Scotland

Palo Alto
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 108 99 154
Rank change year-on-year -9 +55 -6
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 7 66 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 2.47% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 0.84% 5.92% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 51 16
10th Percentile £405 £325 £359
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% +10.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £558 £516 £503
90th Percentile £568 £550 £525
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +17.65%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 832 1,114 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.82% 41.69% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 787 766
10th Percentile £179 £181 £183
25th Percentile £323 £371 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £674 £613 £603
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 34
10th Percentile £11.85 £13.06 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.42 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £55.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -68.18% +36.65% +78.89%
75th Percentile £19.75 £63.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £59.13 £68.88 £56.00
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +9 3 £555 +48.00% 2
Edinburgh -10 2 £413 -17.50% 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (28.57%) Catchpoint
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) VPN
3 5 (71.43%) Network Security
4 4 (57.14%) IPsec
4 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
5 3 (42.86%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (42.86%) LAN
5 3 (42.86%) Unified Communications
5 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (28.57%) DNS
6 2 (28.57%) IPv6
6 2 (28.57%) SSL
6 2 (28.57%) WAN
7 1 (14.29%) BGP
7 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
7 1 (14.29%) MPLS
7 1 (14.29%) OSPF
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Field Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) BCP
3 2 (28.57%) Compliance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Network Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) F5
3 2 (28.57%) AppNeta
3 2 (28.57%) Arista
3 2 (28.57%) Tufin
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft