NGFW Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring NGFW skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NGFW 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 0.91% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10 14 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 9.09% 15.22% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 13
10th Percentile - £210 £400
25th Percentile £205 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% -13.04% +43.75%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £625
90th Percentile £550 £623 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £548 £600
% change year-on-year +0.36% -8.67% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - -82.63%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

NGFW job vacancy trend in Gloucester

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing NGFW

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable