Palo Alto Contracts in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 223 348
Rank change year-on-year -18 +125 -48
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 158 253 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.10% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 1.83% 2.47% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 182 117
10th Percentile £400 £288 £306
25th Percentile £432 £328 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £471 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -0.79% +13.10%
75th Percentile £608 £525 £550
90th Percentile £775 £581 £659
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 3
10th Percentile - £51.82 £27.92
25th Percentile - £52.13 £43.35
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - -10.21% +11.37%
75th Percentile - £63.23 -
90th Percentile - £80.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.23 £69.05
% change year-on-year - -8.43% +2.68%

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,644 10,255 12,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.60% 44.58% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 7,046 8,257
10th Percentile £208 £205 £188
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 457 645
10th Percentile £11.84 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £58.59 £62.00 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.11
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £41.98 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +95.24% -2.27%

Palo Alto
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Palo Alto in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Palo Alto in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Palo Alto in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Palo Alto in the UK excluding London

Palo Alto
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +17 66 £605 +25.89% 20
North of England -2 35 £434 +11.92% 14
North West +9 34 £433 +15.59% 11
South West +14 23 £646 +17.45% 7
East of England +4 16 £450 -14.29% 3
Midlands +14 15 £750 +57.89% 6
West Midlands +16 12 £750 +62.16% 4
Scotland -14 5 £553 +11.06% 10
East Midlands +8 3 £325 -53.57% 2
Yorkshire -4 1 £550 +10.00% 3
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Palo Alto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (2.53%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) IIS
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.27%) WordPress
3 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (21.52%) Azure
2 15 (9.49%) OCI
3 12 (7.59%) AWS
4 9 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.80%) GitHub
6 5 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.53%) Route 53
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.27%) Catchpoint
8 2 (1.27%) GCP
8 2 (1.27%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.27%) PaaS
8 2 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 114 (72.15%) Firewall
2 53 (33.54%) Cisco ASA
3 49 (31.01%) Cisco ISE
4 46 (29.11%) Network Security
5 45 (28.48%) WAN
6 36 (22.78%) SD-WAN
7 34 (21.52%) DNS
8 32 (20.25%) LAN
9 31 (19.62%) VPN
10 28 (17.72%) Wireless
11 26 (16.46%) DHCP
12 23 (14.56%) OSPF
12 23 (14.56%) SAN
13 22 (13.92%) BGP
14 21 (13.29%) Cisco Nexus
14 21 (13.29%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (11.39%) Cisco Firepower
16 17 (10.76%) Cisco IOS
16 17 (10.76%) IPsec
16 17 (10.76%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.53%) JIRA
1 4 (2.53%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.27%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) GitLab
2 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
General
1 32 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.19%) Finance
2 24 (15.19%) Public Sector
3 19 (12.03%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.80%) Legal
7 5 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.16%) Marketing
8 4 (2.53%) Aeronautics
8 4 (2.53%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.53%) Banking
8 4 (2.53%) Electronics
9 2 (1.27%) Law
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (53.16%) Network Engineer
2 29 (18.35%) Architect
3 18 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (11.39%) Senior
4 15 (9.49%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) Senior Network Engineer
6 13 (8.23%) Security Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) Network Architect
8 11 (6.96%) Network Security Engineer
9 10 (6.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 10 (6.33%) Storage Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Analyst
11 7 (4.43%) Network Analyst
11 7 (4.43%) Network Security Analyst
11 7 (4.43%) Security Analyst
11 7 (4.43%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.80%) VMware Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.59%) Jinja
2 5 (3.16%) Web Services
3 4 (2.53%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.90%) EDI
5 2 (1.27%) LAMP
5 2 (1.27%) LDAP
5 2 (1.27%) Node.js
5 2 (1.27%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 61 (38.61%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.70%) Replication
3 8 (5.06%) Operational Technology
4 6 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.53%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.90%) CCTV
7 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.90%) SCADA
8 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.63%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.63%) CMDB
9 1 (0.63%) Life Science
9 1 (0.63%) PKI
9 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.19%) Windows
1 24 (15.19%) Windows Server
2 23 (14.56%) Linux
3 16 (10.13%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (10.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (8.86%) Windows 10
4 14 (8.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (8.86%) Windows XP
5 3 (1.90%) VMS
6 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.11%) ITIL
2 33 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (16.46%) ITSM
4 21 (13.29%) Storage Management
5 19 (12.03%) Change Management
6 18 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (10.13%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (10.13%) Project Management
7 16 (10.13%) Server Management
8 15 (9.49%) Network Management
9 14 (8.86%) Break/Fix
9 14 (8.86%) Converged Infrastructure
9 14 (8.86%) DevOps
9 14 (8.86%) Performance Monitoring
9 14 (8.86%) Proactive Monitoring
10 13 (8.23%) Migration
11 12 (7.59%) Decision-Making
12 11 (6.96%) Technical Architecture
12 11 (6.96%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.03%) Python
2 17 (10.76%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.59%) Perl
3 12 (7.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 78 (49.37%) Security Cleared
2 74 (46.84%) Cisco Certification
3 66 (41.77%) CCNP
4 49 (31.01%) DV Cleared
4 49 (31.01%) SC Cleared
5 39 (24.68%) CCNA
6 21 (13.29%) Degree
7 11 (6.96%) CCIE
8 10 (6.33%) JNCIA
9 6 (3.80%) CCSA
9 6 (3.80%) CISM
10 5 (3.16%) CCIE Data Center
11 4 (2.53%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.53%) HND
11 4 (2.53%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (1.27%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.27%) CASP
12 2 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.80%) SLA
2 2 (1.27%) GDPR
2 2 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 22 (13.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (13.29%) VMware ESXi
3 19 (12.03%) VMware NSX
4 18 (11.39%) Active Directory
5 14 (8.86%) Hyper-V
6 13 (8.23%) Firmware
7 4 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (13.92%) vCenter Server
2 16 (10.13%) SCCM
3 15 (9.49%) WSUS
4 14 (8.86%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (8.86%) NetBackup
4 14 (8.86%) SCOM
5 12 (7.59%) Ansible
6 11 (6.96%) Nessus
7 8 (5.06%) Terraform
8 6 (3.80%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.53%) Kubernetes
10 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.27%) Nagios
10 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.63%) Observium
11 1 (0.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 128 (81.01%) Cisco
2 43 (27.22%) Juniper
3 39 (24.68%) VMware
4 32 (20.25%) CheckPoint
4 32 (20.25%) Dell
5 28 (17.72%) F5
6 26 (16.46%) Microsoft
7 24 (15.19%) Veeam
8 23 (14.56%) SolarWinds
9 20 (12.66%) Symantec
10 17 (10.76%) Citrix
11 15 (9.49%) HP
11 15 (9.49%) Oracle
12 14 (8.86%) 3PAR
12 14 (8.86%) EMC
12 14 (8.86%) Extreme Networks
13 12 (7.59%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (6.96%) Fortinet
15 8 (5.06%) Zscaler
16 7 (4.43%) Blue Coat