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 22 June 2025, 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 112 92
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +58
Contract jobs citing Palo Alto 17 7 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.03% 0.34% 2.48%
As % of the Vendors category 2.14% 0.86% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 52
10th Percentile £363 £405 £328
25th Percentile £399 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +11.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £558 £514
90th Percentile £488 £568 £549
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -

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 795 810 1,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 48.24% 38.79% 41.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 521 788
10th Percentile £223 £175 £199
25th Percentile £361 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £538
90th Percentile £600 £663 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 43 24
10th Percentile £16.02 £11.76 £12.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.51 £18.00 £26.93
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -33.16% -32.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £19.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.67 £60.10 £68.09
UK median hourly rate £25.40 £23.58 £40.59
% change year-on-year +7.72% -41.91% +86.36%

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

Palo Alto
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

Palo Alto
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Palo Alto in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Palo Alto in Scotland

Palo Alto
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 22 June 2025. 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
Edinburgh +10 6 £450 +9.09% 10
Glasgow -12 5 £399 -28.11% 11
Aberdeen - 4 £475 - 5
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UK

Palo Alto
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:

Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 15 (88.24%) Firewall
1 15 (88.24%) VPN
2 14 (82.35%) WAN
3 11 (64.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 11 (64.71%) LAN
4 10 (58.82%) Network Security
4 10 (58.82%) SD-WAN
5 9 (52.94%) BGP
5 9 (52.94%) OSPF
5 9 (52.94%) Wireless
6 7 (41.18%) IPsec
7 5 (29.41%) EIGRP
7 5 (29.41%) Unified Communications
7 5 (29.41%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (23.53%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (23.53%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
9 1 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (5.88%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (5.88%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Network Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Field Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Network Field Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (35.29%) High Availability
3 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
4 4 (23.53%) Network Design
5 3 (17.65%) Capacity Management
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.88%) Agile
7 1 (5.88%) Change Management
7 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (5.88%) Kanban
7 1 (5.88%) Network Management
7 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
7 1 (5.88%) Project Management
7 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
7 1 (5.88%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bash
1 1 (5.88%) Perl
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (52.94%) CCNP
3 3 (17.65%) CCNA
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) KVM
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
2 1 (5.88%) Nagios
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Cisco
2 7 (41.18%) F5
3 4 (23.53%) Juniper
4 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.88%) Aruba
6 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.88%) Commvault
6 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.88%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) NetApp
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.88%) Riverbed
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