NGFW Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 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 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NGFW 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.30% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +24.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 53 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.74% 19.34% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 47 42
10th Percentile £205 £360 £316
25th Percentile £381 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -8.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £581 £623 £734
90th Percentile £620 £730 £776
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -82.63%
75th Percentile £12.69 - £21.00
90th Percentile £45.78 - £33.45
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £43.20
% change year-on-year -20.00% +73.63% +340.77%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

NGFW job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing NGFW

NGFW
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester - 1 £550 -
NGFW
South West

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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