NGFW Contract Job Trends in London

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NGFW skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 360 403
Rank change year-on-year -5 +43 +143
Contract jobs citing NGFW 13 13 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.091% 0.087% 0.011%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.02% 0.87% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 1
10th Percentile £281 £360 -
25th Percentile £413 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £465 £400
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% +16.25% -38.46%
75th Percentile £700 £484 £425
90th Percentile - £500 -
England median daily rate £494 £506 £400
% change year-on-year -2.47% +26.56% -27.27%

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 1,276 1,497 1,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.91% 9.98% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 918 1,332
10th Percentile £311 £257 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £627 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%
75th Percentile £27.25 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £76.91 £76.63
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +25.53%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

NGFW job vacancy trend in London

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NGFW

NGFW
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NGFW in London over the 6 months to 21 December 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 21 December 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 -2 1 £425 +18.06%
NGFW
England

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Route 53
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) Network Security
3 5 (38.46%) BGP
4 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 4 (30.77%) WAN
5 3 (23.08%) OSPF
5 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
6 2 (15.38%) 5G
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (15.38%) DNS
6 2 (15.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (15.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (15.38%) Internet
6 2 (15.38%) IPsec
6 2 (15.38%) LAN
6 2 (15.38%) MPLS
6 2 (15.38%) RSVP
6 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (15.38%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Military
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 6 (46.15%) Security Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Information Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Design Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Network Design Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Information Security Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Network Support
5 1 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) SCADA
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Security Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Change Control
2 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
3 4 (30.77%) Information Security
3 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Network Design
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
6 1 (7.69%) Change Management
6 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
6 1 (7.69%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) CCNP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) JNCIA
2 1 (7.69%) JNCIS
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) F5
1 5 (38.46%) Palo Alto
2 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
3 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
4 2 (15.38%) Nokia
5 1 (7.69%) Arista
5 1 (7.69%) Aruba
5 1 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (7.69%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
5 1 (7.69%) Juniper
5 1 (7.69%) Mellanox
5 1 (7.69%) Meraki
5 1 (7.69%) NVIDIA
5 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk
5 1 (7.69%) Zscaler