NGFW Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring NGFW skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NGFW 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 1.06% - 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.68% - 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £420
75th Percentile £475 - £430
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £450 £600 £420
% change year-on-year -25.00% +42.86% -30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 31 15 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 10.99% 18.75% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 21
10th Percentile £478 - £400
25th Percentile £519 £325 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £628
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -26.34% +54.56%
75th Percentile £688 £490 £672
90th Percentile £850 £518 £675
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +17.77%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NGFW relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

NGFW job vacancy trend in Farnborough

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing NGFW

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Design Authority
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) White-Box Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Mellanox
2 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA
2 1 (33.33%) VMware