NGFW Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring NGFW skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing NGFW 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.40% 2.44% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.41% 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £511 £560 -
25th Percentile £511 £564 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £601 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% - -
75th Percentile £549 £630 -
90th Percentile £556 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £538 £615 -
% change year-on-year -12.60% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 68 16 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.03% 9.76% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 12 58
10th Percentile £304 £283 £369
25th Percentile £465 £447 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +6.33%
75th Percentile £610 £607 £558
90th Percentile £643 £630 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.58
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.55
% change year-on-year - -37.03% +18.68%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

NGFW job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

NGFW
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing NGFW.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing NGFW

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) ICMP
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow