NGFW Contracts in London

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 453 578
Rank change year-on-year +55 +125 -114
Contract jobs citing NGFW 2 35 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.011% 0.13% 0.068%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 1.34% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 27 16
10th Percentile - £386 £331
25th Percentile - £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% +13.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £638 £594
90th Percentile - £725 £634
England median daily rate £465 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.43% - +23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,684 2,607 3,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.93% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 1,830 2,509
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.07 £21.00
25th Percentile £17.09 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.65 £43.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +22.86% -26.32%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.88 £48.20
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for NGFW in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware