NGFW Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire 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 94 72 106
Rank change year-on-year -22 +34 -7
Contract jobs citing NGFW 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.18% 0.26% 0.056%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.35% 1.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £420
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +42.86% -30.00%
75th Percentile £475 - £430
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £520 £600 £460
% change year-on-year -13.33% +30.43% -23.33%

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 222 175 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.01% 22.32% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 125 179
10th Percentile £313 £293 £350
25th Percentile £500 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +17.77%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £735 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £523 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +8.85% -4.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 80
10th Percentile - £50.11 £17.69
25th Percentile £48.64 £52.14 £51.06
Median hourly rate £52.43 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -4.10% -7.50%
75th Percentile £56.21 £59.09 £62.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £62.26 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +3.05% -28.51% -4.42%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

NGFW job vacancy trend in Hampshire

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing NGFW

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 14 June 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
Farnborough - 3 £450 - 2
NGFW
South East

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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