NGFW Contracts in London

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 326 389 459
Rank change year-on-year +63 +70 +116
Contract jobs citing NGFW 27 2 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.011% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 0.12% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 26
10th Percentile - - £386
25th Percentile £388 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -24.56% +14.00%
75th Percentile £515 - £638
90th Percentile £608 - £725
England median daily rate £525 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +12.90% -15.45% +4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in London

NGFW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for NGFW in London

NGFW
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NGFW in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NGFW in London

NGFW
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the London 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
Central London - 8 £390 -
East London - 2 £515 -
NGFW
England

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (100.00%) Firewall
2 22 (81.48%) VPN
3 16 (59.26%) DNS
4 6 (22.22%) WAN
5 5 (18.52%) Network Security
6 4 (14.81%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (14.81%) IPsec
6 4 (14.81%) LAN
6 4 (14.81%) MPLS
7 3 (11.11%) BGP
7 3 (11.11%) OSPF
7 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (11.11%) Wireless
8 2 (7.41%) Internet
8 2 (7.41%) PSTN
8 2 (7.41%) VoIP
9 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (3.70%) Intranet
9 1 (3.70%) SAN
9 1 (3.70%) SSL
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Legal
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 16 (59.26%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (59.26%) Network Support
2 16 (59.26%) Network Support Engineer
2 16 (59.26%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) Firewall Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Security Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Firewall Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Network Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Telephony Manager
5 1 (3.70%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 17 (62.96%) Anti-Spyware
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Agile
1 18 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 17 (62.96%) Migration
3 16 (59.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
5 3 (11.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.41%) Business Strategy
6 2 (7.41%) Network Design
6 2 (7.41%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (7.41%) Zero Trust
7 1 (3.70%) Adaptive Security
7 1 (3.70%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (3.70%) Runbook
7 1 (3.70%) User Experience
7 1 (3.70%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (11.11%) CCNA
2 3 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (59.26%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 19 (70.37%) CheckPoint
3 16 (59.26%) Infoblox
4 4 (14.81%) Cisco
4 4 (14.81%) F5
4 4 (14.81%) Juniper
5 3 (11.11%) Aruba
5 3 (11.11%) Fortinet
5 3 (11.11%) Meraki
5 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 3 (11.11%) Zscaler
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.70%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (3.70%) Forcepoint