NGFW Contracts in Hampshire

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring NGFW skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NGFW over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 93 97
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 +31
Contract jobs citing NGFW 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.40% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.85% 0.44% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £381 £528
25th Percentile - £386 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -31.25% +22.45%
75th Percentile £625 £432 £650
90th Percentile £640 £432 £673
South East median daily rate £618 £420 £600
% change year-on-year +47.02% -30.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 162 450 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.72% 27.95% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 162 162
10th Percentile £325 £266 £228
25th Percentile £456 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +1.44%
75th Percentile £618 £634 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £694
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 73 38
10th Percentile £51.49 £17.69 £18.25
25th Percentile £55.09 £51.06 £42.44
Median hourly rate £59.13 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -4.42% +166.67%
75th Percentile £63.44 £61.30 £69.69
90th Percentile £69.38 £62.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in Hampshire

NGFW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NGFW in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for NGFW in Hampshire

NGFW
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Southampton - 2 £600 - 1
Havant - 1 £650 -
NGFW
South East

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft