Palo Alto Contracts with Work from Home Options

Palo Alto
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 240 397
Rank change year-on-year +14 +157 -31
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 113 244 235
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.99% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 1.80% 2.28% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 175 173
10th Percentile £316 £368 £350
25th Percentile £431 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £615
90th Percentile £725 £743 £710
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.23 £69.05
% change year-on-year - -8.43% +2.68%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,291 10,688 17,257
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.42% 43.23% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,957 7,196 11,757
10th Percentile £325 £330 £343
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £746 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 246 259
10th Percentile £13.31 £17.06 £14.47
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.72 £19.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.93 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +32.31% +41.47%
75th Percentile £51.69 £68.44 £56.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -49.41% +97.67% -3.00%

Palo Alto
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Palo Alto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Palo Alto trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Palo Alto.

Palo Alto daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Palo Alto over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Palo Alto daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Palo Alto.

Palo Alto hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (6.19%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.58%) AWS
2 20 (17.70%) Azure
3 8 (7.08%) GitHub
3 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.31%) Slack
5 5 (4.42%) Route 53
5 5 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.54%) Asana
6 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.65%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.65%) Serverless
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (66.37%) Firewall
2 37 (32.74%) Cisco ASA
3 34 (30.09%) WAN
4 28 (24.78%) VPN
5 27 (23.89%) Network Security
6 25 (22.12%) BGP
7 24 (21.24%) OSPF
8 21 (18.58%) LAN
9 19 (16.81%) Cisco Nexus
10 17 (15.04%) SD-WAN
10 17 (15.04%) Wireless
11 16 (14.16%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (11.50%) DNS
12 13 (11.50%) IPsec
12 13 (11.50%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (9.73%) SNMP
14 10 (8.85%) TCP/IP
15 9 (7.96%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (7.96%) EIGRP
16 8 (7.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.73%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (3.54%) Git
3 4 (3.54%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.65%) GitLab
5 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.62%) Finance
3 11 (9.73%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.19%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.42%) Banking
7 4 (3.54%) Aeronautics
7 4 (3.54%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (38.94%) Network Engineer
2 26 (23.01%) Senior
3 25 (22.12%) Architect
4 9 (7.96%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (7.08%) Consultant
5 8 (7.08%) Network Consultant
5 8 (7.08%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Network Architect
6 6 (5.31%) Senior Consultant
6 6 (5.31%) Senior Network Consultant
6 6 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.31%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.42%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 4 (3.54%) SOC Architect
8 4 (3.54%) SOC Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) Jinja
2 3 (2.65%) EDI
2 3 (2.65%) LDAP
2 3 (2.65%) Node.js
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.88%) SAML
3 1 (0.88%) XML
3 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.24%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.31%) Operational Technology
2 6 (5.31%) PKI
3 5 (4.42%) Clustering
3 5 (4.42%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.54%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.65%) CCTV
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.65%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.65%) SCADA
5 3 (2.65%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) Replication
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.31%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Linux
3 2 (1.77%) Unix
3 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (13.27%) DevOps
3 13 (11.50%) Agile
3 13 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (11.50%) Migration
4 12 (10.62%) ITIL
5 11 (9.73%) Change Management
5 11 (9.73%) Investment Management
6 9 (7.96%) Network Design
6 9 (7.96%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (7.08%) High Availability
7 8 (7.08%) Network Management
7 8 (7.08%) Roadmaps
8 7 (6.19%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (6.19%) Security Operations
8 7 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (5.31%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (5.31%) ITSM
9 6 (5.31%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (5.31%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.47%) Python
2 6 (5.31%) Perl
2 6 (5.31%) Tcl
3 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.65%) Bash
6 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (40.71%) Cisco Certification
2 44 (38.94%) CCNP
3 29 (25.66%) Security Cleared
4 26 (23.01%) SC Cleared
5 17 (15.04%) CCNA
6 11 (9.73%) CCIE
7 8 (7.08%) Degree
8 7 (6.19%) DV Cleared
8 7 (6.19%) JNCIA
9 5 (4.42%) AWS Certification
9 5 (4.42%) CCDP
10 4 (3.54%) HND
10 4 (3.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.65%) CCSA
11 3 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.77%) CISM
13 1 (0.88%) CCSP
13 1 (0.88%) CISSP
13 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) SLA
2 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (11.50%) VMware NSX
2 11 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.96%) Firmware
4 6 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.42%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.77%) Squid
7 1 (0.88%) KVM
Systems Management
1 14 (12.39%) Terraform
2 12 (10.62%) Ansible
2 12 (10.62%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.42%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.54%) CSIRT
5 3 (2.65%) Kibana
6 2 (1.77%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.77%) Nessus
6 2 (1.77%) Opsgenie
6 2 (1.77%) Packer
6 2 (1.77%) VxRail
7 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (68.14%) Cisco
2 23 (20.35%) Fortinet
3 17 (15.04%) CheckPoint
3 17 (15.04%) Juniper
4 16 (14.16%) VMware
5 14 (12.39%) F5
5 14 (12.39%) Zscaler
6 11 (9.73%) Arista
7 10 (8.85%) Microsoft
8 9 (7.96%) Aruba
8 9 (7.96%) SolarWinds
8 9 (7.96%) Splunk
9 7 (6.19%) Citrix
10 6 (5.31%) Infoblox
11 5 (4.42%) Blue Coat
11 5 (4.42%) Dell
11 5 (4.42%) Meraki
11 5 (4.42%) Riverbed
12 4 (3.54%) Ciena
12 4 (3.54%) Nokia