NGN Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Next Generation Network (NGN)
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring NGN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NGN 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 2.15% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £502 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - -
75th Percentile £517 - -
90th Percentile £520 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £508 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Barrow-in-Furness

NGN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 53 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 25.81% 38.41% 69.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 80
10th Percentile £409 £430 £462
25th Percentile £447 £442 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.09% +36.90%
75th Percentile £555 £587 £627
90th Percentile £582 £677 £651
Cumbria median daily rate £525 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% +318.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
Cumbria median hourly rate - £48.56 -

NGN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto