NGFW Contracts in the South East

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for NGFW skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NGFW over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 212 256
Rank change year-on-year +15 +44 -71
Contract jobs citing NGFW 4 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.12% 0.090%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.72% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £384 £528 £433
25th Percentile £394 £550 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £479 £650 £625
90th Percentile £507 £673 £700
England median daily rate £465 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.43% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 - £60.93

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

NGFW is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,247 972 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.46% 16.81% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 586 772
10th Percentile £205 £238 £189
25th Percentile £373 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £657
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 74 68
10th Percentile £16.39 £18.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -37.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £47.31
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.66 £23.91
% change year-on-year +114.36% -21.96% -4.36%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing NGFW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in the South East

NGFW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NGFW in the South East.

Daily rate trend for NGFW in the South East

NGFW
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Surrey +10 2 £500 - 1
Hampshire +4 2 £413 -31.25% 2
NGFW
England

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (50.00%) FCoE
2 2 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) ISDN
2 2 (50.00%) Junos
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) Multicast
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Adaptive Security
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Information Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) WAN Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds