NGFW Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring NGFW skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 63 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -
Contract jobs citing NGFW 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% 0.56% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.84% 6.15% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £580 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £580 -
% change year-on-year -13.79% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

NGFW 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 119 65 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.97% 9.10% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 35 88
10th Percentile £243 £165 £214
25th Percentile £327 £213 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £380 £385
Median % change year-on-year +17.11% -1.30% -3.75%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £625
90th Percentile £575 £592 £727
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £44.35 £25.13 £17.10
25th Percentile £44.88 £30.94 £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £41.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% -36.54% +225.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £51.65 £56.38 £69.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +57.14%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in Birmingham

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NGFW.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NGFW

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto