NGFW Contracts in England

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for NGFW skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NGFW over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 578 721
Rank change year-on-year +57 +143 -151
Contract jobs citing NGFW 16 84 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.17% 0.079%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 1.37% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 58 33
10th Percentile £353 £411 £413
25th Percentile £408 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile - £725 £671
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.92
25th Percentile £58.50 - £60.92
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £60.93
75th Percentile £67.50 - £60.93
90th Percentile - - £60.93
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £60.93

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

NGFW is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,944 6,141 7,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.34% 12.26% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 4,038 5,185
10th Percentile £206 £240 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 436 301
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -3.39%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in England

NGFW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for NGFW in England

NGFW
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NGFW in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NGFW in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for NGFW 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 NGFW within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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 +13 4 £420 -30.00% 4
South West +7 3 £600 +24.68% 2
London +60 2 £430 -23.89% 10
Midlands +29 1 £263 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £263 - 3
NGFW
UK

NGFW
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (43.75%) Network Security
3 6 (37.50%) DNS
3 6 (37.50%) WAN
4 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
5 4 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (25.00%) LAN
5 4 (25.00%) Wireless
6 3 (18.75%) IPsec
6 3 (18.75%) MPLS
6 3 (18.75%) VPN
7 2 (12.50%) BGP
7 2 (12.50%) DDNS
7 2 (12.50%) DSL
7 2 (12.50%) FCoE
7 2 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (12.50%) Junos
7 2 (12.50%) Multicast
7 2 (12.50%) OSPF
7 2 (12.50%) Unified Communications
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (12.50%) PKI
3 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Adaptive Security
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Information Management
5 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) WAN Optimisation
5 2 (12.50%) Web Filtering
6 1 (6.25%) Change Management
6 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
6 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.25%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (31.25%) CCNA
2 5 (31.25%) CCNP
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) CCIE
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Palo Alto
2 8 (50.00%) Cisco
3 6 (37.50%) Fortinet
4 4 (25.00%) Zscaler
5 3 (18.75%) F5
5 3 (18.75%) VMware
6 2 (12.50%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (12.50%) Forcepoint
6 2 (12.50%) Juniper
6 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
7 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
7 1 (6.25%) Meraki
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft